Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection: An Inventory of the Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection:

An Inventory of the Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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	Repository:	Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
	Creator:	Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection, (Perfroming Arts)
	Title:	Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection
	Inclusive Dates:	1795-1978
	Bulk Dates:	bulk 1870-1915
	Extent:	17 document boxes, 1 oversize box (7.39 linear feet)
	Abstract:	The collection contains promptbooks, stage managers' workbooks, preparation and rehearsal copies, and unused scripts. The majority of the items are marked copies that appear to have been used in the production process. Prominent authors and theatrical managers represented are John Philip Kemble, Charles Frohman, Arthur Wing Pinero, Lillian Hellman, and Dion Boucicault.
	RLIN Record #:	TXRC02-A0

Administrative Information

Acquisition:

Assembled from various Performing Arts collections, including the Albert Davis and Messmore Kendall Collections and others

The Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection was assembled by Performing Arts staff from a variety of sources, chiefly the Albert Davis and Messmore Kendall Collections. Other sources were W. H. Crain, Benjamin Blom, Lester Sweyd, and the University of Texas drama professors Coleman A. Jennings and Ellsworth P. Conkle. The Covent Garden promptbooks belonged to an Arthur Williams.

Processed by:

Helen Baer, 2000-2001

Restrictions

Access:

Open for research. Due to the fragile condition of the original, a preservation photocopy of the promptbook for The Children's Hour must be used unless permission to use the original is obtained from the Research Librarian.

Scope and Contents

The Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection, 1795-1978 (bulk 1870-1915), contains promptbooks, stage managers' workbooks, preparation and rehearsal copies, and unused scripts for 100 dramas, comedies, musical comedies, and other dramatic works, many of which were staged in New York or London. The majority of the items in this collection are marked copies that appear to have been used in the production process. Among the prominent authors and theatrical managers represented are John Philip Kemble, Charles Frohman, Arthur Wing Pinero, Lillian Hellman, and Dion Boucicault. Items document stagings at Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and the Adelphi and Portsmouth Theatres in England, and at the Empire Theatre in New York. Organized alphabetically by author, the collection can also be accessed via the Index of Authors and Production Personnel following the folder list.

Many of the materials in this collection can be linked to the stage of production at which they were created or used. Cuts and alterations to the text are found in preparation copies, which record the director's ideas before any further work has been done, and in rehearsal copies. Promptbooks and stage managers' workbooks contain notes for cues, calls, scene shifts, effects, and other warnings necessary to coordinate a stage performance. Some of the promptbooks are probably final or souvenir promptbooks, made up afterward as a record of the production. Also included are unused typescripts, often with plots and ground plans, in which the stage directions are underlined in red but which lack warnings, cues, or other features of full promptbooks.

The collection is dominated by material associated with a handful of managers and producers. Two promptbooks marked in John Philip Kemble's hand record his Covent Garden stagings of A Cure for the Heartache (1805) and Guy Mannering (1816). The office of the American producer Charles Frohman was the source of typescripts, mostly unmarked, for eighteen plays, many of which were produced at the Empire Theatre in New York or in London between 1901 and 1913. It seems likely that a few other scripts in the collection passed through Frohman's office, though they are not marked with his stamp. Also included are promptbooks and preparation copies for Arthur Collins' productions at Drury Lane, piano scores and promptbooks owned by the British theater manager Frank Hiam, and scripts linked to stagings by Wilson Barrett, Annie E. F. Horniman, and R. H. Burnside.

Other noteworthy material relates to playwrights and theaters. Arthur Wing Pinero is represented by a heavily revised copy of The Profligate; Lillian Hellman, by a souvenir promptbook for The Children's Hour; Dion Boucicault, by an incomplete holograph manuscript for Janet Pride; and Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton by a promptbook for Money. Other authors include Augustin Daly, W. Somerset Maugham, J. M. Barrie, Cecil Raleigh, Benjamin Webster, and Richard Rodgers. In addition to the John Philip Kemble and Arthur Collins promptbooks for Covent Garden and Drury Lane, the collection holds an 1803 promptbook for Delays and Blunders that is marked for both Covent Garden and the Portsmouth Theatre, and two Adelphi Theatre promptbooks for The Enchanted Isle and Belphegor the Mountebank.

Concluding this finding aid is an Index of Authors and Production Personnel that lists authors, adaptors, translators, managers, producers, directors, stage managers, and actors. The index does not include persons whose role in a specific production is unknown.

Promptbooks can also be found in the Department of Manuscripts and Archives, in the Promptbooks Collection. Published playscripts, some annotated, are located in the Theater Arts Library.

Note on the Folder List

Because many of the marked copies in this collection are linked to a specific production, it is sometimes possible to identify who actually used them. More often, there is a rehearsal copy, for example, but the particulars of the staging, or even whether an actual performance occurred, are not known. The fullest possible identification is necessarily based on a blend of evidence and inference such as that employed by Charles Shattuck in The Shakespeare Promptbooks: A Descriptive Catalog. The Format/Description part of the folder list is modeled after Shattuck and organized as follows: (a) format, including the presence of ground plans, plots, and other productional material included in the script; (b) when discernable, what sort of document it appears to be, the specific production to which it is linked, and the name of the previous owner; (c) materials pasted or laid in, such as playbills, letters, sketches, and working papers.


Arrangement
	The finding aid for the Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection is a conflation of the original inventory created in 2000-2001, and of a small addition that was catalogued in 2006. Currently the addition is described only by a Box List which has been appended to the original inventory, using the arrangement established with the original inventory and continuing the box numbering sequence. The Scope and Contents note and Index of Authors and Production Personnel do not make reference to the addition, and the RLIN record for the collection summarizes the material in the original inventory only.
	Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection--Original Inventory [This Page]
	Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection--Addition

Index Terms

People

Barrett, Wilson, 1848-1904

Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890

Burnside, R.H., 1870-1952

Collins, Arthur, 1863-1932

Frohman, Charles

Hellman, Lillian, 1906-

Hiam, Frank

Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823

Payne, B. Iden

Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir, 1855-1934

Organizations

Adelphi Theatre (London, England)

Covent Garden Theatre

Drury Lane Theatre

Empire Theatre (New York, N.Y.)

Portsmouth Theatre (Portsmouth, England)

Subjects

Promptbooks

Theater, England History

Theater, United States History

Theatrical producers and directors, England

Theatrical producers and directors, United States

Document Types

Prompt books

Scores

Scripts

Container List


Box	Folder
1	1	The Second Shepherd's Play (later titled The Sheep Thief) 1964 Author Ainsworth, Ford (adapt.) Typescript, in modern English, with ground plan.


Box	Folder
1	2	Parakeets 1926 Author Akins, Zoë (after Louis Verneuil) Typescripts for Act I (19 July); Act II (7 July); and Acts II and III, nd, with ground plan for Act III. Rehearsal copy, checked for Maica in pencil with other characters checked in ink.


Box	Folder
16	1	He Who Gets Slapped n.d. Author Andreyev, Leonid Acting edition pasted into a workbook with ground plans; costume, scenic, and makeup sketches; and property, light, sound, and costume plots. Stage manager's workbook, marked through Act I; property of Jack A. Freeman.


Box	Folder
1	3	Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted ca. 1908 Author Arabian, Michael Typescript. Lightly marked copy for Annie E. F. Horniman's production at the Gaiety Theatre (Manchester) in which B. Iden Payne participated, presumably playing Oscar Eckersley. Property of Joseph Williams Ltd.


Box	Folder
16	2	The Girl from Up the Road 1971 Author Ashton, Michael, and David Heneker (after Ben Travers) (a) One complete typescript and one fragment, n.d.; song lyrics. Fragment slightly revised.


Box	Folder
16	3-4	The Girl from Up the Road 1972 Author Ashton, Michael, and David Heneker (after Ben Travers) (b) Retitled Popkiss, with additional music by John Addison. Typescript with inserts; song lyrics and working papers. Heavily marked promptbook for the production at the Globe Theatre directed by Richard Cottrell (London, 22 Aug.). Song lyrics lightly corrected.


Box	Folder
1	4	Tinder Box 1950 Author Barefield, Jason Typescript with ground plans, property and costume plots, and cast, crew, and understudy lists. Production manager Shirley Freudenfall's heavily marked production book for the premiere (9 Feb.) directed by Hedley Gordon Graham.


Box	Folder
1	5	The Manxman n.d. Author Barrett, Wilson (after Hall Caine) Typescript with scene, property, music, and light plots. Lightly marked copy, presumably for Barrett's production (1894-95).


Box	Folder
1	6	What Every Woman Knows n.d. Author Barrie, J. M. Typescript with property plot, property of Charles Frohman and presumably for one of his productions in 1908.


Box	Folder
1	7	Mélo (trans. William A. Drake) n.d. Author Bernstein, Henry Typescript. Preparation copy, marked through Act I, scene i; property of A. H. Woods.


Box	Folder
2	1	Samson n.d. Author Bernstein, Henry Typescript in French, property of Charles Frohman and presumably for one of his productions in 1908/1909.


Box	Folder
16-17	5, 1	Janet Pride 1853 Author Boucicault, Dion Holograph manuscripts: (a) Acts I and II, inscribed "Theatre Royal, Adelphi, 1853"; Acts IV and V, nd. Lightly to heavily marked with cuts and alterations; "arranged for [William E.] Burton's Chambers Street Theatre by Thomas M[illeg.]". (b) Summary of stage business and list of cues for Act III, nd; cue list revised to reflect cuts. (c) Actors's sides for Janet, Bernard, Richard, Minnie Grey, and George, n.d., with alterations.


Box	Folder
2	2	The Good Woman of Setzuan (trans. Eric Bentley) n.d. Author Brecht, Bertolt Typescript with ground plan. Rehearsal copy, checked for the Old Whore.


Box	Folder
2	3	The Enchanted Isle; or, Raising the Wind [1848?] Author Brough, Robert B., and William Brough Acting edition with interleaves. Promptbook for a production at the Adelphi Theatre.


Box	Folder
2	4	Money n.d. Author Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George E. Lytton Acting edition pasted in a workbook. Stage manager's heavily marked promptbook for a production in which John Hare played Sir John Vesey. Given to Cyril Maude by Hare.


Box	Folder
2	5	Happy Days n.d. Author Burnside, R. H., and Raymond Hubbell Typescript (two copies)


Box	Folder
2	6	Miss Millions 1927 Author Burnside, R. H., and Raymond Hubbell Typescript (10 Mar.), "copyright 1919"; presumably for Burnside's production at the Punch and Judy Theatre (9 Dec. 1919).


Box	Folder
2	7	Everything n.d. Author Burnside, R. H., John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin, and John Golden Typescript


Box	Folder
17	2-3	The Prodigal Son 1905 Author Caine, Hall Typescript. Lightly marked preparation copy for Arthur Collins' production at Drury Lane (7 Sept.). Letter from Caine to Collins (7 June). Collins' notes in reply, n.d.


Box	Folder
3	1	The Great Magician n.d. Author Carrá Lawrence Typescript with costume specifications and ground plan. Studybook, checked for Elpino.


Box	Folder
3	2	Wheels within Wheels [1899] Author Carton, R. C. Typescript with ground plans, property and lighting plots, and cast list. Promptbook for the production at Hoyt's Theatre [11 Dec.], property of Daniel Frohman.


Box	Folder
3	3	The Mask and the Face (trans. W. Somerset Maugham) n.d. Author Chiarelli, Luigi Typescript, property of Gilbert Miller.


Box	Folder
3	4	The Million 1911 Author Claretie, Jules Typescript (21 Dec.), property of Charles Frohman.


Box	Folder
3	5	Courtly Love n.d. Author Crain, W. H. Typescript


Box	Folder
3	6	Under the Gaslight 1867 Author Daly, Augustin Acting edition. Appears to be a rehearsal copy.


Box	Folder
3	7	A Single Man 1911 Author Davis, Hubert Henry Typescript (8 Mar.), property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at the Empire Theatre (4 Sept.)


Box	Folder
4	1	Governor Rodman's Daughter (later titled Men and Women) n.d. Author De Mille, Henry C., and David Belasco Typescript with a few cues in the last scene.


Box	Folder
4	2	Etienne (trans. Gilbert Wakefield) n.d. Author Deval, Jacques (a) Typescript with translator's notes. Apparently, a working draft prepared for Gilbert Miller by Wakefield.


Box	Folder
4	3	Etienne (trans. Gilbert Wakefield) n.d. Author Deval, Jacques (b) Untranslated typescript in French, property of Gilbert Miller.


Box	Folder
4	4	Altona (trans. S. I. Greenberger) n.d. Author Fazekas, Imre Typescript, property of Charles Frohman.


Box	Folder
4	5	Little Bohemia n.d. Author Ferrier, Paul, and Henri Hirchmann Typescript with two versions of Act II.


Box	Folder
4	6	The Doughgirls n.d. Author Fields, Joseph Acting edition pasted into a workbook. Stage manager's workbook, property of Garrison Sherwood.


Box	Folder
5	1	Criminals n.d. Author Flexner, Anne Crawford (after Ferdinand Bruckner) Typescript


Box	Folder
5	2	Nary a Brogue 1865-1866 Author Florence, William J. Holograph manuscript. Promptbook, copied by William H. Daly, prompter at McVicker's Theatre (Chicago, Dec. 1865) and marked and corrected by Thomas B. Radcliffe, stage manager at Pike's Opera House (Cincinnati) for S. N. Pike's production (11 Jan. 1866). Playbills for Pike's Opera House (19 Jan. 1866, n.d.) pasted in.


Box	Folder
5	3	The Blue Diamond n.d. Author Gordon, Julian, Richard H. Barker, Jr., Michael Furneaux, Greatrex Newman, and Victor Gilbert Typescript, "copyrighted by R. H. Burnside."


Box	Folder
5	4	Warden's Orders n.d. Author Hayden, John (after Mark Hellinger) Typescript


Box	Folder
5	5	The Children's Hour 1934 Author Hellman, Lillian (a) Typescript with ground plans. Souvenir promptbook for the premiere at Maxine Elliott's Theatre (20 Nov.), signed by cast and crew and given to producer Herman Shumlin by stage manager Harry M. Cooke.


Box	Folder
5	6	The Children's Hour Author Hellman, Lillian (b) Preservation photocopy


Box	Folder
5	7	Alien Corn 1931 Author Howard, Sidney Typescript. Clean copy into which a partial cast was pencilled and then erased. Inscribed "Howard B[re?]tt 8-21-35."


Box	Folder
5	8	Miss Hobbs n.d. Author Jerome, Jerome K. Typescript


Box	Folder
6	1	Bitter Grapes n.d. Author Jones, John Joseph Typescript "reader's copy."


Box	Folder
6	2	Sturt n.d. Author Jones, John Joseph Typescript (Act II) with one scene very lightly annotated.


Box	Folder
6	3	Fancy Meeting You Again [1951] Author Kaufman, George S., and Leueen MacGrath Typescript. Lightly marked workbook, apparently for Kaufman's production at the Locust St. Theatre (25 Dec.). Flier for that production.


Box	Folder
6	4	The Cat and the Fiddle 1931 Author Kern, Jerome, and Otto Harbach Typescript treatment by Jerry Sackheim (10 Nov.)


Box	Folder
6	5	Two Girls and One Man n.d. Author Kidder, Edward E. Typescript. Heavily marked stage manager's workbook.


Box	Folder
6	6	Kelly 1964-1965 Author Lawrence, Eddie, and Moose Charlap Typescript comprised of segments dated 30 Dec. 1964 to 11 Jan. 1965. Heavily marked rehearsal copy (house copy) for the premiere at the Broadhurst Theatre (7 Feb. 1965) directed by Herbert Ross.


Box	Folder
6	7	Marjory Strode n.d. Author Mason, A. E. W. Typescript, property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at the Empire Theatre (27 Aug. 1908.)


Box	Folder
6-7	8, 1	Jack Straw n.d. Author Maugham, W. Somerset Typescript with property plot, property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at the Vaudeville Theatre (London, 26 Mar. 1908). Working papers for Act III.


Box	Folder
7	2	The Other Rose [1923] Author Middleton, George (after Edouard Bourdet) Belasco edition (Act III). Lightly marked preparation or rehearsal copy.


Box	Folder
17	4-5	Beauty and the Beast n.d. Author Mills, Mark, and Fred Eplett Holograph manuscripts: (a) Piano score, "produced under the direction of Frank Hiam"; (b) promptbook, also the property of Frank Hiam.


Box	Folder
7	3	Wretched Woman 1928 Author Moeller, Philip Typescript, property of Charles Frohman.


Box	Folder
7	4	Carnival (trans. Melville Baker) n.d. Author Molnar, [Ferenc] Typescript, property of Charles Frohman; used as a studybook and checked for Nikolaus.


Box	Folder
7	5	A Cure for the Heartache 1805 Author Morton, Thomas Acting edition with interleaves. Promptbook marked in John Philip Kemble's hand. Another hand identifies this book as a "C[ovent] Garden Prompt Copy." In a third hand: "Played for [Samuel] Phelps benefit at Sadlers Wells, 25 Mar. 1858."


Box	Folder
7	6	The Two Blinds (also titled A Mere Blind) 1874 Author Offenbach, Jacques, and Arthur Clements Holograph manuscript. Clean copy of the libretto for John Hollingshead's production at the Gaiety Theatre (London, 31 Aug.)


Box	Folder
7	7	Old King Cole n.d. Author Oldham, R. C., Henri Jaxon, and D. G. Hall Printed edition pasted into a workbook. Lightly marked preparation or rehearsal copy.


Box	Folder
8	1	The Profligate 1887 Author Pinero, Arthur Wing Privately printed edition (June) with interleaves. Heavily marked with autograph corrections and an alternate ending, presumably for John Hare's production at the Garrick Theatre (London, 24 Apr. 1889.)


Box	Folder
18	1	The Best of Friends [1902/1904] Author Raleigh, Cecil Typescript pasted into a workbook. Promptbook, apparently for Arthur Collins' production at Drury Lane (London, 18 Sept. 1902). TLS from Bland Holt to Collins (1904) bearing Collins' notes in reply on verso. Collins' notes about the play, [1904?]


Box	Folder
8	2	The Hope 1911 Author Raleigh, Cecil, and Henry Hamilton Typescript with scenery plot (25 Oct.). Clean copy, apparently for Arthur Collins' production at Drury Lane (14 Sept.). Belonged to Barry Duncan.


Box	Folder
8	3	The White Heather 1901 Author Raleigh, Cecil, and Henry Hamilton (a) Typescript (Act IV, 1 Aug.). Heavily marked rehearsal promptbook, apparently for Arthur Collins' production at Drury Lane (16 Aug.)


Box	Folder
8	4-6	The White Heather 1897 Author Raleigh, Cecil, and Henry Hamilton (b) Typescript with plots for scenery, gas, limelights, properties, and calls (Acts I-III, May). Lightly marked, clean copy, presumably for the same production.


Box	Folder
8	7	The Jester n.d. Author Raphael, John N. (after Miguel Zamacois) Typescript


Box	Folder
9	1	Accent on Youth 1934 Author Raphaelson, Samson Typescript with ground plans, property and light plots, electrical inventory, and cast list. Unmarked "Stage manager's copy" for Crosby Gaige's production at the Plymouth Theatre (25 Dec.)


Box	Folder
9	2	Tom, Dick, and Harry 1978 Author Ratcliffe, Sharon Typescript


Box	Folder
9	3	Delays and Blunders 1795/1803 Author Reynolds, Frederick Acting edition (1803). The cover, inscribed "Thomas Colli[ns]" (manager?) and "Collins Davies," was previously used at the Portsmouth Theatre (Eng.) to hold a copy of Such Things Are (1795). Promptbook, marked for Covent Garden and corrected in the same hand for the Portsmouth Theatre (1803), as explained in a note in a second hand. Date of use at Portsmouth is supplied in a third hand; cuts are restored in a fourth hand.


Box	Folder
9	4	The Awful Truth n.d. Author Richman, Arthur Typescript with scene and property plots


Box	Folder
9	5	Do I Hear a Waltz? [1965] Author Rodgers, Richard, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents Typescript. Lighting designer's workbook, apparently for the premiere at 46th Street Theatre [18 Mar.] directed by John Dexter. Belonged to Beverly Daniels.


Box	Folder
17	6	Westward People 1936 Author Rogers, John William Typescript (June)


Box	Folder
9	6	To Have and to Hold [1901] Author Rose, Edward E. (adapt.) Typescript [4 Mar.]. Lightly marked copy, apparently for Charles Frohman's production at the Knickerbocker Theatre.


Box	Folder
9	7	Chantecler 1911 Author Rostand, Edmond Typescript with cast list, timings, and light, sound, property, and flight plots (8 May), property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at the Knickerbocker Theatre (23 Jan.)


Box	Folder
10	1	The Man I Killed (trans. Reginald Berkeley) n.d. Author Rostand, Maurice Typescripts. Two copies stamped "No. 3" and "No. 6", respectively, property of Gilbert Miller.


Box	Folder
10	2	La Tosca (adapt. F. C. Grove and Henry Hamilton?) n.d. Author Sardou, Victorien (a) Typescript (Acts II, III). Heavily marked rehearsal promptbook, property of Olga Brandon.


Box	Folder
10	3	La Tosca (adapt. F. C. Grove and Henry Hamilton?) n.d. Author Sardou, Victorien (b) Typescript (Acts I, II, IV). Rehearsal copy, checked for Tosca, apparently for the same production.


Box	Folder
10	4	Jimmy Shine [1968] Author Schisgal, Murray Typescript [5 Dec.]. Preparation copy, apparently for the premiere at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre directed by Donald Driver.


Box	Folder
10	5	Seba Ben Zaric 1895-1896 Author Shakespeare, Stephen, and Frank Dunn Typescript (12 Oct. 1895). Preparation copy? Inscribed "S.S. / S.R.C. Jan. 4 1896"


Box	Folder
10	6	The Informer 1912 Author Shea, Dennis J. Typescript. Rehearsal copy, checked for Phelim O'Hara


Box	Folder
11	1	None but the Brave 1905/1907 Author Shirley, Arthur, and Sutton Vane Holograph manuscript. Heavily marked promptbook, apparently for the performance at the New Theatre, Cambridge (Eng.) in which Stanley Bedwell played Lal Ray. Copied by Bedwell (4 Dec. 1905) and stamped by a typewriting agency (3 Aug. 1907). Also belonged to George Shirley. Clipped review of the New Theatre production.


Box	Folder
11	2	The Light that Lies in Woman's Eyes [1904] Author Sothern, E. H. Typescript. Virginia Harned's rehearsal copy for Charles Frohman's production at the Criterion [25 Jan.], lightly marked in Act II.


Box	Folder
11	3	A Daughter of Old Glory n.d. Author Stagg, Katherine Typescript with corrections.


Box	Folder
11	4	The Snowman (later titled The Girls of Holland) [1907] Author Stange, Stanislaus, and Reginald de Koven Typescript, property of R. H. Burnside and presumably for his production at the Lyric Theatre, [18 Nov.]


Box	Folder
11	5	The Doll Girl (trans. Harry B. Smith) 1913 Author Stein, Leo, A. M. Willner, and Leo Fall Typescript with partial cast list (4 Aug.), property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at the Globe Theatre (25 Aug.)


Box	Folder
11	6	Beauty and the Beast; or, The Enchanted Flagon, the Wishes Three, and the Magic Branch of the Withered Tree. nd Author Stephens, Clement W. Holograph manuscript with dramatis personae from a printed edition pasted inside front cover; plot of entrances, exits, and properties laid in. Appears to be a souvenir promptbook. Belonged to Frank Hiam.


Box	Folder
17	7	The Yellow Dwarf; or, The Pretty Princess, the Magic Spell, and the Silver Bee of the Mystic Dell. 1883-1884 Author Stephens, Clement W., Fred Eplett, and George Le Brunn Holograph manuscripts: (a) Piano score, property of Frank Hiam; (b) one page of what appears to be the promptbook, n.d.


Box	Folder
12	1	1776 1968 Author Stone, Peter, and Sherman Edwards Typescript (Dec.). Unmarked "rehearsal script" ("Early script with songs later cut"), presumably for the premiere at 46th Street Theatre (16 Mar. 1969) directed by Peter Hunt.


Box	Folder
12	2	The Athenian Touch 1964 Author Straight, Willard, David Eddy, Arthur Goodman, and J. Albert Fracht Typescript. Rehearsal copy, checked for the Citizens and otherwise lightly annotated. Belonged to Ronn Hansen.


Box	Folder
12	3	Guy Mannering 1816-1834 Author Terry, Daniel (after Sir Walter Scott) Acting edition, n.d., with interleaves. Promptbook for the 1815-16 season, heavily marked in John Philip Kemble's hand, presumably for the premiere at Covent Garden (12 Mar. 1816). In another hand are stage directions, timings, and interpolations for various performances between 1820 and 1834. A third hand attributes these notes to the Covent Garden stage manager.


Box	Folder
12	4	No Answer 1954/1981 Author Tuttle, Day Typescript (1954). Preparation or rehearsal copy (1981), "greatly cut and expanded" from the version staged at Yale Drama School in 1936.


Box	Folder
12	5	Inconstant George 1909 Author Unger, Gladys (after Robert de Flers and Gaston-Arman de Caillavet) Typescript (26 July), property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his staging at the Empire Theatre (20 Sept.)


Box	Folder
12-13	6, 1	Love Watches 1908 Author Unger, Gladys (after Robert de Flers and Gaston-Arman de Caillavet) (a) Typescript (Aug.), property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at the Lyceum Theatre (27 Aug.)


Box	Folder
13	2-3	Love Watches 1909 Author Unger, Gladys (after Robert de Flers and Gaston-Arman de Caillavet) (b) Typescript (Mar.). Lightly marked copy, property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at Haymarket Theatre (London, 11 May.)


Box	Folder
13	4	Outward Bound n.d. Author Vane, Sutton Typescript, property of William Harris, Jr. and presumably for his production at the Ritz Theatre (7 Jan. 1924.)


Box	Folder
13	5	The Maid of Orleans [1909] Author [Viereck, George Sylvester], after Friedrich Schiller Typescript. Heavily marked stage manager's workbook, property of Charles Frohman, for his production at Harvard Stadium [22 June.]


Box	Folder
13	6	Belphegor the Mountebank; or, The Pride of Earth [1848] Author Webster, Benjamin Acting edition with interleaves. Promptbook for a production at the Adelphi Theatre.


Box	Folder
13	7	Ninon n.d. Author Wills, W. G. Holograph manuscript. Clean copy of what appears to be a promptbook. Belonged to Norman Forbes-Robertson.


Box	Folder
13	8	Eve and the Serpents 1913 Author Worrall, Lechmere (after Roberto Bracco) Typescript (29 Sept.), property of Charles Frohman.


Box	Folder
14	1	The Broadway Belles n.d. Author Unidentified author Typescript with original cast. Names of two alternates (?) pencilled in next to cast.


Box	Folder
14	2	Cherry and Fair Star; or, The Children of Cyprus 1840-1841 Author Unidentified author Holograph manuscript. Promptbook, "copied for W. W. Broadfoot, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, Mar. 1840" and "marked and corrected" for R[obert William] Honner, Sadler's Wells (London), 1841. Playbill pasted on cover. Also owned by N. Younge.


Box	Folder
14	3	The Foolish Virgin 1910 Author Unidentified author Typescript (July), property of Charles Frohman and presumably for his production at the Knickerbocker Theatre (19 Dec.)


Box	Folder
14	4	The Gay Lieutenant n.d. Author Unidentified author Actor's side for Capt. George Fairweather. Amply marked with alterations and, on verso of last 2 pp, what appear to be song lyrics.


Box	Folder
14	5	Gulf Stream n.d. Author Unidentified author Typescript, property of Thomas Mitchell and very lightly corrected.


Box	Folder
14	6	The Landlord n.d. Author Unidentified author Holograph manuscript. Heavily marked rehearsal copy or stage manager's workbook.


Box	Folder
14	7	Leonardo n.d. Author Unidentified author Typescript, property of R. H. Burnside; lightly corrected.


Box	Folder
14	8	Mexico 1826 Author Unidentified author Holograph manuscript (3 Dec.)


Box	Folder
14	9	Oliver Twist; or, The Story of a London Orphan 1877 Author Unidentified adaptor (after Dickens) (a) Acting edition, nd, pasted into a workbook. Promptbook, signed by J. B. Roberts.


Box	Folder
15	1	Oliver Twist; or, The Story of a London Orphan n.d. Author Unidentified adaptor (after Dickens) (b) Acting edition pasted into a workbook. Promptbook, property of F. C. Wemyss. Playbill and prints pasted in.


Box	Folder
15	2	Playing First Fiddle in the Bow Belles n.d. Author Unidentified author Holograph manuscript. Rehearsal copy?


Box	Folder
15	3	[Still-Life] n.d. Author Unidentified author Typescript

Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection--Index of Authors and Production Personnel

Names in bold appear in the RLIN record.

Material from the Addition is not included in this index.

Addison, John, 1920- --16.3-4
Ainsworth, Ford--1.1
Akins, Zoe, 1886-1958--1.2
Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919--16.1
Arabian, Michael--1.3
Ashton, Michael--16.2-4
Baker, Melville--7.4
Barefield, Jason--1.4
Barker, Richard H., Jr.--5.3
Barrett, Wilson, 1848-1904--1.5
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthews), 1860-1937--1.6
Bedwell, Stanley--11.1
Belasco, David, 1853-1931--4.1, 7.2
Bentley, Eric, 1916- --2.2
Berkeley, Reginald--10.1
Berlin, Irving, 1888- --2.7
Bernstein, Henry, 1876-1953--1.7-2.1
Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890--16.5-17.1
Bourdet, Edouard, 1887-1945--7.2
Bracco, Roberto, 1862-1943--13.8
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--2.2
Broadfoot, W. W.--14.2
Brough, Robert B. (Robert Barnabas), 1828-1860--2.3
Brough, William, 1826-1870--2.3
Bruckner, Ferdinand, 1891-1958--5.1
Burnside, R. H., 1870-1952--2.5-7, 5.1, 11.4, 14.7
Burton, William E. (William Evans), 1802-1860--16.5-17.1
Caillavet, G.-A. de (Gaston-Arman de), 1869-1915--12.5-13.3
Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931--1.5, 17.2-3
Carra, Lawrence--3.1
Carton, R. C. (Richard Claude), 1856-1928--3.2
Charlap, Moose, 1928- --6.6
Chiarelli, Luigi, 1880-1947--3.3
Claretie, Jules, 1840-1913--3.4
Clements, Arthur--7.6
Collins, Arthur, 1863-1932--8.3-6, 17.2-3, 18.1
Collins, Thomas, fl. 1791--9.3
Cooke, Harry M.--5.5-6
Cottrell, Richard, 1936- --16.3-4
Crain, W. H.--3.5
Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899--3.6
Daly, William H.--5.2
Davis, Hubert Henry--3.7
De Koven, Reginald, 1859-1920--11.4
De Mille, Henry Churchill, 1850-1893--4.1
Deval, Jacques, 1894- --4.2-3
Dexter, John, 1925-1990--9.5
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--14.9-15.1
Drake, William A., b. 1899--1.7
Driver, Donald--10.4
Dunn, Frank--10.5
Eddy, David--12.2
Edwards, Sherman--12.1
Eplett, Fred--17.4-5, 17.7
Fall, Leo, 1873-1925--11.5
Fazekas, Imre--4.4
Ferrier, Paul, 1843-1920--4.5
Fields, Joseph A., 1895-1966--4.6
Flers, Robert de, 1872-1927--12.5-13.3
Flexner, Anne Crawford, 1874-1955--5.1
Florence, William Jermyn, 1831-1891--5.2
Forbes-Robertson, Norman--13.7
Fracht, J. Albert (Jack Albert), 1904- --12.2
Freudenfall, Shirley--1.4
Frohman, Charles--1.6, 2.1, 3.4, 3.7, 4.4, 6.7-7.1, 7.3-4, 9.6-7, 11.2, 11.5, 12.5-13.3, 13.5, 13.8, 14.3
Frohman, Daniel, 1851-1940--3.2
Furneaux, Michael--5.3
Gaige, Crosby, 1882-1949--9.1
Gilbert, Victor--5.3
Golden, John, 1874-1955--2.7
Goodman, Arthur--12.2
Gordon, Julian--5.3
Graham, Hedley Gordon--1.4
Greenberger, S. I.--4.4
Grove, F. C.--10.2-3
Hall, D. G.--7.7
Hamilton, Henry, 1853?-1918--8.2-6, 10.2-3
Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963--6.4
Hare, John, 1844-1921--2.4, 8.1
Harned, Virginia--11.2
Harris, William, 1884-1946--13.4
Hayden, John--5.4
Hellinger, Mark, 1903-1947--5.4
Hellman, Lillian, 1906- --5.5-6
Heneker, David--16.2-4
Hiam, Frank--11.6, 17.4-5, 17.7
Hirchmann, Henri, 1872-1961--4.5
Hollingshead, John, 1827-1904--7.6
Holt, Bland--18.1
Honner, Robert William, 1809-1852--14.2
Horniman, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka, 1860-1937--1.3
Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891-1939--5.7
Hubbell, Raymond, 1879-1954--2.5-6
Hunt, Peter H.--12.1
Jaxon, Henri--7.7
Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927--5.8
Jones, John Joseph, 1930- --6.1-2
Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961--6.3
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823--7.5, 12.3
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945--6.4
Kidder, Edward E.--6.5
Laurents, Arthur--9.5
Lawrence, Eddie, 1919---6.6
Le Brunn, George--17.7
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873--2.4
M[illeg], Thomas--16.4-5
MacGrath, Leueen--6.3
Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948--6.7
Maude, Cyril, 1862-1951--2.4
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965--3.3, 6.8-7.1
Middleton, George, 1880-1967--7.2
Miller, Gilbert--3.3, 4.2-3, 10.1
Mills, Mark--17.4-5
Moeller, Philip, 1880-1958--7.3
Molnar, Ferenc, 1878-1952--7.4
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838--7.5
Newman, Greatrex--5.3
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880--7.6
Oldham, R. C.--7.7
Payne, B. Iden--1.3
Phelps, Samuel, 1804-1878--7.5
Pike, S. N.--5.2
Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir, 1855-1934--8.1
Radcliffe, Thomas B.--5.2
Raleigh, Cecil, 1856-1914--8.2-6, 18.1
Raphael, John N.--8.7
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896- --9.1
Ratcliffe, Sharon--9.2
Reynolds, Frederick, 1764-1841--9.3
Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944--9.4
Roberts, J. B. (James Booth), 1815-901--14.9
Rodgers, Richard, 1902- --9.5
Rogers, John William--17.6
Rose, Edward Everett, 1862- --9.6
Ross, Herbert, 1927- --6.6
Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918--9.7
Rostand, Maurice, 1891-1968--10.1
Sackheim, Jerry--6.4
Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908--10.2-3
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805--13.5
Schisgal, Murray, 1926- --10.4
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832--12.3
Shakespeare, Stephen--10.5
Shea, Dennis J.--10.6
Sherwood, Garrison--4.6
Shirley, Arthur, 1853-1925--11.1
Shumlin, Herman, b. 1898--5.5-6
Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936--11.5
Sondheim, Stephen--9.5
Sothern, E. H. (Edward Hugh), 1859-1933--11.2
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932--2.7
Stagg, Katherine--11.3
Stange, Stanislaus, d. 1917--11.4
Stein, Leo, 1862-1920--11.5
Stephens, Clement W.--11.6, 17.7
Stone, Peter, 1930- --12.1
Straight, Willard--12.2
Terry, Daniel, 1782-1829--12.3
Travers, Ben, 1886- --16.2-4
Tuttle, Day--12.4
Unger, Gladys, d. 1940--12.5-13.3
Vane, Sutton, 1888- --11.1, 13.4
Verneuil, Louis, 1893-1952--1.2
Viereck, George Sylvester, 1884-1962--13.5
Wakefield, Gilbert, 1892-1963--4.2
Webster, Benjamin, 1797-1882--13.6
Wemyss, F. C. (Francis Courtney), 1797-1859--15.1
Willner, Alfred Maria--11.5
Wills, W. G. (William Gorman), 1828-1891--13.7
Woods, A. H. (Albert Herman), 1870-1951--1.7
Worrall, Lechmere--13.8
Zamacois, Miguel--8.7

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