urn:taro:utexas.hrc.01309. Robert Downing: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Anne Kofmehl and Joan Sibley Harry Ransom Center, 2019 Finding aid encoded by Anne Kofmehl9 July 2019 Finding aid written in English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) Descriptive Summary Downing, Robert, 1914-1975 Robert Downing Papers 1881, 1920-1975, undated (bulk dates 1931-1975) Manuscript Collection MS-01205 58 document boxes, 3 card boxes (cb), 10 oversize boxes (osb) (37.13 linear feet), 5 oversize folders (osf) Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin The papers of production stage manager, actor, playwright, and theatre critic Robert Downing contain manuscripts for numerous works, extensive correspondence, production and stage manager materials for various productions, scrapbooks, and works and correspondence by others, forming a notable record of Downing's contribution to twentieth-century theatre. English Biographical Sketch

Robert Downing was a noted production stage manager, actor, director, playwright, and theatre critic who worked with some of the great playwrights and directors of the twentieth century, including Tennessee Williams, Elia Kazan, Ezra Stone, and Moss Hart. Robert Downing was born April 26, 1914 in Sioux City, Iowa. He was adopted by his parents Clark Elmer and Alice Mae Downing soon after his birth and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Downing got his start in the theatre at the age of thirteen taking acting lessons in Cedar Rapids. He developed and honed his acting skills through work with various community theatres and tent shows in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding region. In 1931, he studied theatre at University of Iowa under B. Iden Payne. He continued to act in regional theatre and expanded his repertoire with several lead roles on the Dixiana Showboat in Chicago, Illinois (1934-35) and played Pontius Pilate in a touring production of the passion play (1935-36). He eventually got his big break when he joined the Lunts (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) on tour in 1939-40 for their productions of The Seagull, Amphitryon 38, The Idiot's Delight, and The Taming of the Shrew. He later served as their secretary and wrote the Luntanne Tattler, a backstage gossip newsletter for the cast and crew.

Downing's stage management career began in 1940 as an assistant stage manager for There Shall Be No Night. In 1942, he led the USO-Camp Shows' production of Junior Miss. For the next two years, he added more assistant stage manager credits to his resume, including the tour of My Sister Eileen (1942-43) and Mae West's Catherine was Great (1943). In 1945, he returned abroad as the stage and company manager for the USO-Camp Shows' production of Moss Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner.

In 1947, Downing served as production stage manager for A Streetcar Named Desire, his first Tennessee Williams production. He stayed with that show through its opening run and subsequent tour until 1950. He came back five years later as production stage manager for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In the years between and after, Downing worked on numerous successful productions, oftentimes working multiple shows with the same director, producers, and/or set designers. Some notable shows from that period include: Seventeen (1951); The Tender Trap (1954-55); Happy Hunting, with Ethel Merman (1956); Say, Darling (1958); J.B. (1959); and Camelot (1960). His creative partners for many of these shows included Elia Kazan, Jo Mielziner, Jule Styne, Ezra Stone, Moss Hart, and Tennessee Williams.

Downing was appointed as production stage manager for the Repertory Theatre at the Lincoln Center in 1963. For the next couple years, he worked on a variety of shows, including three for Arthur Miller: After the Fall (1964); The Changeling (1964); and Incident at Vichy (1964). In 1965, he worked on his last production on Broadway as a stage manager for Molière's Tartuffe.

During his two decades on Broadway, Downing also wrote and/or co-wrote his own plays, including Yankee Doodle Comes to Town with Kermit Love and Under Canvas with George Greenberg. His play The Limbo Kid was performed as a radio drama in 1940, a stage production in 1957, and a television adaptation in 1960. The play won the first prize in the annual playwriting competition of the Southeast Theatre Conference in 1961. He taught theatre courses at the American Theatre Wing, the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, and numerous colleges and universities. In 1966, he toured twenty countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East speaking on the subject of American Theatre for the State Department.

In 1968, Downing moved to Champaign-Urbana to serve as the production administrator at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois. After a year, he moved further west to Denver to join the staff of the Bonfils Theatre in Denver, and in 1970 he became a regular contributor to the Denver Post as their drama editor. Downing had previously spent many years reviewing books for Variety under the byline Rodo and continued to review books for the Post and contribute theatre and theatre history articles to periodicals. Downing was a member of many professional societies, but was especially active in The Players, serving as secretary from 1960 to 1968. He was also appointed as director of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) in 1967.

In 1961, Downing sold his theatre collection to the University of Texas at Austin's Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Library. He continued to generously add material to the collection until his death on June 14th, 1975.

 Sources:

Crain, William. Robert Downing, 26 April 1914-14 June 1975, The Library Chronicle, New Series Number 9, 1978.

 Scope and Contents

The papers of production stage manager, actor, playwright, and theatre critic, Robert Downing contain manuscripts for numerous works, extensive correspondence, production and stage manager materials for various productions, scrapbooks, and works and correspondence by others, forming a notable record of Downing's contribution to twentieth century theatre. Many of Downing's colleagues are represented in the papers, including noted directors, producers, playwrights, actors, set designers, and other theatre professionals, most notably Tennessee Williams, Moss Hart, Elia Kazan, Jo Mielziner, and Ezra Stone.

The papers span 1881-1975, with the bulk dating from the period from 1931 until Downing's death in 1975. The papers are organized into five series, I. Works, 1932-1968, undated (boxes 1-9, 71); II. Letters, 1933-1975, undated (boxes 9-10); III. Recipient, 1931-1975, undated (boxes 10-28); and IV. Miscellaneous, 1881, 1920-1975, undated (boxes 28-61); and V. Miscellaneous Scrapbooks, 1933-1962 (boxes 62-70). The Robert Downing papers were previously described only in a card catalog. This finding aid replicates and replaces that description. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of those manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in the descriptions. Downing's papers were formerly part of the Ransom Center's Theater Arts Manuscripts Collection, but now form a separate, discrete collection.

Manuscripts, play scripts, drafts, and notes, for Downing's writings make up Series I. Works and represent his output of articles, plays for stage and radio, interviews, reviews, columns, and criticism. The materials are arranged alphabetically by title. Dominant among the works are his plays The Limbo Kid (1957), first produced as a radio drama in 1940, copyrighted and performed as a stage production in 1957, and adapted for television in 1960; Singing in the Wilderness (1941); Yankee Doodle Comes to Town (1940), co-written with Kermit Love; and A Line Down the Middle (1968) co-written with Bernice Weiler. Also present are issues of the Luntanne Tattler (1939-40), a backstage gossip newsletter Downing edited while on tour with the Lunts, and a series of journals he kept documenting his two tours with the production company USO-Camp Shows and his trips abroad lecturing on American theatre in 1966. All titles are represented in the Index of Works in this finding aid.

Series II. Letters contains outgoing letters written by Downing that are arranged alphabetically by the recipient's name. Correspondents include Downing's colleagues: directors, producers, playwrights, designers, and actors; as well as family members, friends, editors, publishers, and fellow members of the theatre community. Present are numerous letters to Franklin Heller, a close friend and television producer. An Index of Letters in this finding aid lists all correspondent names represented in this series.

Downing's sizeable incoming correspondence is located in Series III. Recipient and is arranged alphabetically by the author's name. The correspondence helps to demonstrate both his career activities and personal relationships with numerous colleagues and friends over many years. His correspondents include fellow directors, producers, playwrights, set designers, composers, performers and other theatre professionals; editors, publishers, journals, theatre-related organizations and other writers and performers; also included are state officials, several U.S. presidents, and other foreign dignitaries, as well as close friends and family members. All correspondent names are listed in the Index of Recipients in this finding aid.

Among the many notable correspondents are Julie Andrews, Richard Pike Bissell, Helen Bonfils, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Kitty Carlisle, Carol Channing, Beatrice Joy Chute, Marchette Chute, Bette Davis, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Maurice Evans, Herbert Fields, Lynn Fontanne, George Freedley, Ketti Frings, Marian Gallaway, Abel Green, Moss Hart, Franklin Heller, President Herbert Hoover, Frederick Hunter, Joseph Hyman, Burl Ives, Elia Kazan, Deborah Kerr, Carl Laemmle, Angela Lansbury, Alan Jay Lerner, Howard Lindsay, Anita Loos, Alfred Lunt, Hattie McDaniel, Archibald MacLeish, Ethel Merman, Jo Mielziner, Laurence Olivier, The Players (New York), Christopher Plummer, Cole Porter, Repertory Theater at the Lincoln Center, President Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Irene Mayer Selznick, Robert L. Sherman, Robert E. Sherwood, Max Shulman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Ezra Stone, Jule Styne, Jessica Tandy, President Harry Truman, Carl Van Vechten, Berenice Weiler, Mae West, and Tennessee Williams (two letters).

Noteworthy items include a series of letters from Downing's birth mother, Florence Reyman (née Erbes) in folder 23.1. Downing searched for his mother via newspaper ads in the 1930s and was reunited with her on the radio program We the People in 1936; a script of this broadcast is located in folder 57.6. Also of interest are a series of photographic postcards from Carl Van Vechten, taken by the artist himself (folders 26.3-7, 27.1), and significant series of letters from Elia Kazan (folders 18.2-3), Jo Mielziner (folders 21.1-2), and Ezra Stone (folders 24.6, 25.1), all longtime colleagues who worked on several productions with Downing. A small amount of photographic negatives were removed to cold storage due to preservation concerns.

Series IV. Miscellaneous chiefly comprises Downing career-related and personal papers plus works and third-party correspondence created by others. Included are scripts authored by others for productions in which Downing was involved, often with Downing's annotations. All materials in the series are arranged alphabetically by creator and are listed in an Index of Miscellaneous in this finding aid.

Present are multiple drafts of scripts, including annotated stage manager scripts, for There Shall Be No Night (1940); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1945); A Streetcar Named Desire (1947; 1949); The Tender Trap (1954); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955); J.B. (1958); Say Darling (1958); Chéri (1959); Camelot (1961); After the Fall (1963); and Natural Affection (1963). Some oversize materials, such as blueprints for set design and light plots, were removed to flat file storage.

Downing's own materials in this series include: day books for productions and other stage manager materials (prop lists, lighting notes, etc.); notes and fragments; tour diaries for Lunt-Fontanne and USO-Camp Show productions; notecards on George Ade (a nineteenth century playwright); a postcard collection (arranged thematically); promotional material for Yankee Doodle Comes to Town; and other personal items.

Other items of interest include Allen Brousseau's union membership cards; the correspondence and financial papers (royalty statements) of Moss Hart; Joseph Hyman's correspondence and contracts; a rewrite of Act III for Cat on the Hot Tin Roof (folder 55.2); and Downing's extensive collection of autographs of theatrical personalities.

Downing's scrapbooks in Series V. were formerly cataloged as Miscellaneous 1-29. These are now arranged alphabetically by title. Most were created by Downing for productions he was involved in and include photos, clippings, programs, and some correspondence; the correspondent names and folder locations are included in the Index of Recipients. The scrapbooks cover Downing's early acting career, provide important documentation for such Broadway hits as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Street Car Named Desire, and reflect Downing's interests, such as his scrapbook on cats. An Index of Miscellaneous Scrapbooks includes more detail on the contents of each book.

 Acquisition:

Purchase and Gift, 1961, 1976 (R1031-1035, R1049)

 Access:

Open for research. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use Policy before using archival materials.

The scrapbooks in this collection are in fragile condition and require special handling techniques. One scrapbook is restricted from use due to the presence of mold. Special permission from the Curator of Performing Arts, plus advance notice, is required to access the restricted scrapbook. To make an appointment, please email performingarts@hrc.utexas.edu.

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Authorization for publication is given on behalf of the University of Texas as the owner of the collection and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder which must be obtained by the researcher. For more information please see the Ransom Center's Open Access and Use Policies.

 Index Terms People Chute, B. J. (Beatrice Joy), 1913-1987. Chute, Marchette, 1909-1994. Downing, Mae. Fontanne, Lynn. Freedley, George, 1904-1967. Green, Abel, 1900-1973. Hart, Moss, 1904-1961. Heller, Franklin. Kazan, Elia. Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 1908-1979. Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968. Loos, Anita, 1893-1981. Lunt, Alfred. Merman, Ethel. McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952. Mielziner, Jo, 1901-1976. Stone, Ezra, 1917-1994. Styne, Jule, 1905-1994. Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Organizations ANTA (Organization). The Players, New York. Subjects Actors. American drama -- 20th century. American drama -- History and criticism. Playwriting. Stage managers. Theater -- History. Theater -- New York (State) -- New York. Theater -- United States -- 20th century. Theater critics. Theaters -- Employees -- Stage managers. Theatrical companies. Document Types Clippings. Correspondence. Photographs. Plays (performed works). Prompt books. Scrapbooks. Scripts. Theatre programs. Preferred Citation:

Robert Downing Papers (Manuscript Collection MS-01205). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Anne Kofmehl and Joan Sibley, 2019

Note:

This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

 Related Material

There are letters from or to Robert Downing in several other collections held by the Ransom Center: the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records; E. P. Conkle Papers; John Gassner Papers; Harper & Brothers Records; Oliver La Farge Collection; Robert Payne Collection; Elmer Rice Papers; Robert Haven Schauffler Correspondence; and Jule Styne Papers.

Researchers of Downing may also be interested in the Center's Tennessee Williams Collection.

The Denver Public Library holds a small number of scrapbooks of Downing's articles for the Denver Post (3 oversize folios).

 Separated Material

The Ransom Center holds photographs, programs, and clippings that originated from the Downing Papers in its Card Photograph Collection, Magic Collection, Musicians Collection, Playbills and Programs Collection, Production Photographs Collection, and Theatre Biography Collection. Material from Downing was also added to the Harry Houdini and Sarah Bernhardt collections.

The Center also holds books previously owned by Downing (approximately 5450 items) that are accessible online via The University of Texas Library Catalog; six Downing items in the Literary File Photography Collection; and three audio reels in the Sound Recordings collection.

The Ransom Center also holds approximately sixty-nine boxes and three flat file drawers of uncatalogued Robert Downing material.

 Container List Series I. Works, 1932-1968, undated 1.1 A - C 1.2 Are Actors People?, undated 1.3 Around We Go, 1953, 1955 1.4 Cats and Theatre, undated 1.5 A Cottage in Queens, undated 1.6 D - H 2.1 The First Night Ball…, 1955 2.2 I - L 2.3 Impressions of Some People of the Theatre, 1944-1948 2.4 The Inner Office, 1938 Journals: 2.5 Tour of the Junior Miss co. of USO-Camp Shows, 1942-1943 2.5 The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1945, 1948 2.6 World Tour, 1966 2.6 European Tour, 1967 2.7 The Limbo Kid, radio version, October 5, 1940 2.8 The Limbo Kid, a play for TV, July 20, 1950 3.1 The Limbo Kid, mimeo script, December 25, 1957 3.2-5 The Limbo Kid, 4 mimeo scripts, December 25, 1957 3.6, 4.1-4 The Limbo Kid, 5 mimeo scripts, December 25, 1957 4.5 The Limbo Kid, Tccms with revisions, 1957 4.6 The Limbo Kid, Tms, 1957 5.1 The Limbo Kid, adapted for TV, January 1960 5.2 The Limbo Kid, TV version, February 1960 5.3 The Limbo Kid, mimeo script, undated 5.4 The Limbo Kid, Tms, undated 71 (osb) A Line Down the Middle, mimeo script, 1968 6.1 A Line Down the Middle, mimeo script, 1968 6.2 A Line Down the Middle, Tms/photocopy, undated 6.3-4 The Luntanne Tattler, Tccms and mimeo, 1939-1940 6.5 The Luntanne Tattler, mimeo, 1940 6.6, 7.1 The Luntanne Tattler, mimeo/file of Vol. II, 1940 7.2 M - N 7.3 My Native Shore, 1954 7.4 O - R 7.5 Old Hundred, 1952 7.6 The Passion Play, undated 7.7 Poems, 1932 8.1 S - Z 8.2 Singing in the Wilderness, Tccms, 1941 8.2 Singing in the Wilderness, Tms, 1941 8.2 Singing in the Wilderness, Tms/script, undated 8.3 Stage notes, undated 8.4 The Tattooed Countess, 1944 8.5 There was a Little Man, undated 8.6 Three to Make Ready, undated 8.7 Toby: Scenario for an American Ballet, 1953 8.8 Toby Tolliver, 1952 8.9 Too Good for People, undated 9.1 Troublesome Saint, 1946 9.2 Under Canvas, 2 Tccms, 1940, undated 9.3 Widows Walk, 1952 9.4 Yankee Doodle's Dandy / Yankee Doodle Comes to Town, Tccms/draft, 1940 9.5 Yankee Doodle's Dandy / Yankee Doodle Comes to Town, T and Tccms with A revisions, undated 9.6 Yankee Doodle's Dandy / Yankee Doodle Comes to Town, actors sides, T and Tccms, 15 booklets, undated Series II. Letters, 1933-1975, undated 9.7 Unidentified; A – H 10.1 Heller, Franklin, 1971-1975, undated 10.2 I – N 10.3 O – Z Series III. Recipient, 1931-1975, undated 10.4-5 Unidentified 10.6 A – Al 11.1 Am – Az 11.2 Bab – Bax 11.3 Bea – Bes 11.4 Bi – Bl 11.5 Bod – Boy 12.1 Bra – Bry 12.2 Bu – Bz 12.3 Ca – Ce 12.4 Cha – Chur 12.5 Chute, Beatrice Joy, 1957-1975, undated 12.6 Chute, Marchette, 1956-1973, undated 13.1 Cl – Col 13.2 Com – Coz 13.3 Cr – Cz 13.4 Daf – Dav 13.5 Dec – Dex 14.1 Di – Do 14.2 Downing family, 1936-1974 14.3 Downing, Mae, 1932-1955, undated 14.4 Dr – Dz 14.5 E – Em 14.6 En – Ez 15.1 F – Fl 15.2 Fol – Fox 15.3 Fontanne, Lynn, 1931-1974, undated 15.4 Fra – Fz 15.5 Freedley, George, 1945-1964, undated 15.6 Gallaway, Marian, 1961-1962, undated 15.7 Ga – Ge 16.1 Gi – Go 16.2 Gra – Gre 16.3 Green, Abel, 1951-1970, undated 16.4 Gri – Gz 16.5 Ha – Harr 16.6 Hart – Haz 17.1 He – Hi 17.2 Heller, Franklin, 1950-1975, undated 17.3 Ho – Hoy 17.4 Hu – Hz 17.5 Hunter, Frederick, 1962-1968, undated 17.6 I – J; photographic negatives for the Jackson Stock Co. were removed to cold storage 18.1 K – Kaz 18.2-3 Kazan, Elia, 1948-1975, undated 18.4 Ke – Kez 18.5 Ki – Kz 18.6 L – Laz 19.1 Laemmle, Carl, 1932-1939 19.2 Le – Ll 19.3 Lindsay, Howard, 1942-1967, undated 19.4 Lo – Low 19.5 Lu – Lz 19.6, 20.1 Lunt, Alfred, 1940-1975, undated 20.2 Maa – McI 20.3 McK – Mag 20.4 Mal – Man 20.5 Mar – Maz 20.6 Me – Mi 20.7 Merman, Ethel, 1957-1970, undated 21.1-2 Mielziner, Jo, 1949-1975, undated 21.3 Mo – Moz 21.4 Mu – Mz 21.5 N – Ne 21.6 Ni – Nz 22.1 O – Oz 22.2 P – Ph 22.3 Pi – Po 22.4 Pr – Q 22.5 R – Ra 23.1 Re – Ri 23.2 Ro – Ror 23.3 Ros – Rz 23.4 S – Saz 23.5 Sc – Sche 23.6 Schi – Scu 24.1 Se – Sez 24.2 Sha – Shu 24.3 Si – So 24.4 Sp – Sto 24.5 Stevenson, Adlai E., 1952-1963, undated 24.6, 25.1 Stone, Ezra, 1951-1972, undated; photographic negatives were removed to cold storage 25.2 Str – Sz 25.3 T – Te 25.4 Tha – Thu 25.5 Ti – Tz 25.6 U.S. Commission – U.S. Embassy 26.1 U.S. Federal – Uz 26.2 V – Vz 26.3-7, 27.1 Van Vechten, Carl, 1943-1964, undated 27.2 Wa – Waz 27.3 We – Wez 27.4 Wha – Why 27.5 Wi – Wild 27.6 Wilg – Wit 27.7 Wo – Wz 28.1 Y – Z Series IV. Miscellaneous, 1881, 1920-1975, undated 28.2-3 Unidentified authors. Works 28.4 Unidentified authors. Letters 28.5 A – An 28.6 Adams, Joey. On the Road for Uncle Sam, advance review proofs, 1963 29.1 Adams, Walter. The Last Act, script, 1952 29.2 Aiken, George L. Uncle Tom's Cabin, dramatization, prompt copy with handwritten notes, 1933 29.3 American Theatre Wing, Inc. The First Night Ball, script, 1955 29.4 American Theatre Wing, Inc. Texaco Command Performance, scripts, 1957 29.5 Anderson, Maxwell. Barefoot in Athens, script, undated 29.6 Appell, Don. Lullaby, stage manager's script with handwritten notes, 1954 30.1 Ar – Az 30.2 Archibald, William. The Innocents, script, 1948 30.3 B – Bo 30.4 Behrman, Samuel Nathan. But for whom Charlie, script with notes by Robert Downing, 1963 30.5 Behrman, Samuel Nathan. Let Me Hear the Melody!, script, undated 30.6 Belasco, David. La Belle Russe, script, circa 1881 30.7 Benson, Sally. Seventeen, stage manager's script with handwritten notes, 1951 31.1 Betts, Herbert K. Ten Nights in a Bar Room, script, includes sides for six characters, undated Bissell, Richard. Say Darling: 31.2 Stage manager's script, 148 pages, 1958 31.3 Stage manager's script, 156 pages, 1958 31.4 Mimeo, 156 pages, undated 32.1 Mimeo, 156 pages, includes stage manager's materials, undated 32.2 Boothe, Earle. Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine, script, undated 32.3 Br – Bz 32.4 Bradbury, Ray. The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics, proof copy, 1963 32.5 Broussard, Louis. American Drama, page proofs, 1962 32.6 Brousseau, Allen R. Album, correspondence, contracts, member cards, 1920-1961 32.7 C – Cz 33.1 Chodorov, Edward. Those Endearing Young Charms, script, 1943 33.2, osf 1 Chodorov, Jerome. Junior Miss, stage manager's script with handwritten notes, undated; oversize material moved to flat file storage 33.3 Consolidated Appraisal Company, Inc. Catalogue and appraisal of property, 2 copies, 1961 33.4 Cooper, Mae. Lily Henry, script, undated 33.5 Coxe, Louis O. Billy Budd, adaptation, script with handwritten notes for photographs, undated 33.6 D – Dowl 33.7 Davis, Dorrance. Apron Strings, typescript with inscription by stage manager and photographs of players, 1930 33.8 Downing, A. J. – Dz Downing, Robert: 34.1 A – L 34.2 Chéri, day book, 1959 34.3 Happy Hunting, stage manager materials, undated 34.4-5 Log books, 1939-1945 35.1 M – Z 35.2 Natural Affection, log books, 1963 35.3-5 Notes on George Ade, note cards, undated 36.1 A Streetcar Named Desire, day books, 1947-1950 36.2 Yankee Doodle, promotional material, 1940-1941 36.3 Downing, Warwick. The Player, page proofs, 1974 36.4 E – Ez 36.5 Evslin, Bernard. The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg, script, undated 36.6 F – Fz 36.7 Ferber, Edna. Saratoga Trunk, script, undated 36.8 Fields, Herbert. Mexican Hayride, stage manager's script with inserts, handwritten notes, and revisions, undated 37.1 Fields, Joseph. The Doughgirls, stage manager's script with handwritten notes, undated 37.2 Fields, Joseph. My Sister Eileen, stage manager's script with handwritten notes, 1940 37.3 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable, revised script with handwritten notes, 1954 (revised by Wally Cox, Peter Turgeon, and William Redfield) 37.4 Forbes, Brian. Of Human Bondage, adapted screenplay, 1963 37.5, osf 5 Frings, Ketti. The Long Dream, stage manager's script with handwritten revisions and notes, 1960; oversize materials moved to flat file storage 37.6 G – Gz 37.7 Gardner, Dorothy. Eastward in Eden, script, undated 38.1 Giraudoux, Jean. The Madwoman of Chaillot, script, undated 38.2 Gleason, James. Is Zat So?, script, 1925 38.3 Gordon, Ruth. Over Twenty-one, stage manager's script, undated 38.4 Gordon, Ruth. Years Ago, stage manager's script, undated 38.5 Gottlieb, Alex. Wake Up, Darling, Tccms script with handwritten notes, 1956 38.6 H – Haz 38.7 Harrison, Charles F. The Push, script, 1926 Hart, Moss: 38.8 Correspondence, 1928, 1960, undated 39.1-4, 40.1 Financial papers, 1945-1960, 5 folders 40.2 I Am Listening, script, undated 40.3 Lady in the Dark, t and Tccms and mimeo with handwritten revisions and notes, undated 40.4 The Man Who Came to Dinner, printed copy, 1945 40.5 The Man Who Came to Dinner, script with handwritten changes, undated 40.6, osf 2 The Man Who Came to Dinner, script with handwritten notes, laid in materials, undated; (oversize material moved to flat file storage) 41.1 The Man Who Came to Dinner, stage manager's script, undated 41.2 He – Hz 41.3 Hess, John D. The Grey-eyed People, script, undated 41.4 Higham, Charles. The Warner Brothers, galley proofs, 1975 41.5 Hiken, Nat. The Martha Ray show, script, 1953 41.6 Holm, Jay. Fair Wind to Paradise or The Widow's Walk, a musical idea, undated 41.7 Housman, Laurence. Victoria Regina, adapted script, 1961 41.8 Hughes, Glenn. On the Side of the Angels, script, 1952 42.1 Hughes, Glenn. Transatlantic Comedy, script, 1946 Hyman, Joseph: 42.2-3 Contracts and legal papers, 1941-1960, 2 folders 42.4 Correspondence related to David Schwartz's The Bobo, 1960-1961 42.5 Correspondence related to Edward Chodorov's Signor Chicago, 1949 42.6 Correspondence related to Moss Hart, 1948-1957 43.1 Correspondence related to Make Mine Manhattan and miscellaneous, 1948-1949, 1952-1955, undated 43.2 I – J Inge, William. Natural Affection: 43.3 Script, 1962 43.4 Scripts, 1963 43.5 Stage manager's scripts, 1963 43.5 Production lists, 1963 43.6 Johnson, Larry. What Anne Brought Home, script, 1935 43.7 Jones, Henry Arthur. The Silver King, script, 1893 43.8 K – Kz 43.9 Kao, Ming. Pi-Pa-Ki or The Lute Song, adapted script, undated 44.1 Karr, Harold. Happy Hunting, music score / dossier for vocal choir, 1957 44.2 Kaufman, George Simon. Bring on the Girls, script, undated 44.3 Kingsley, Sidney. Darkness at Noon, script, undated 44.4 L – Le 44.5, osf 4 Laurents, Arthur. Heartsong, stage manager's script with handwritten notes and revisions, 1947; oversize material moved to flat file storage 44.6 Lee, Gypsy Rose. The Naked Genius, scripts, 1943, undated Lerner, Alan Jay: 44.7 Camelot, script, undated 44.8 Camelot, script (photocopy), undated 45.1 Camelot, stage manager's script, 1961 45.2 My Fair Lady, script, 1956 45.3 Li – Lz 45.4 Lindsay, Howard. Happy Hunting, stage manager's script with handwritten notes, 1956 45.5 Liss, Joseph. The Lincoln Center of Performing Arts: The Repertory Theatre, draft scripts, 1964 45.6 Lloyd, David Demarest. Herod the Great, script with handwritten notes by Robert Downing, undated 46.1 Loos, Anita. Chéri, scripts, 1959 46.2 Loos, Anita. Chéri, script, undated 46.3 Loos, Anita. Chéri, stage manager's script, 1959 46.4 Loos, Anita. The King's Mare, script, undated 46.5 Loring, B. The Adventures of Ellery Queen: Mr. Big, script with handwritten notes, 1952 46.6 Lowther, George Francis. Dark of Night, script, 1953 46.7 M – Me 46.8 MacLeish, Archibald. J. B., script, 1958 47.1 MacLeish, Archibald. J. B., stage manager's script, 1958 47.2 Mi – Miz 47.3 Middleton, Thomas. The Changeling, script, undated Miller, Arthur: 47.4 After the Fall, early script, 1963 47.5-6 After the Fall, stage manager's script, 1963 48.1 After the Fall, script (acting version), 1964 48.2 Incident at Vichy, scripts, undated 48.3 Minoff, Lee. Come Live With Me, script, 1965 48.4 Mo – Mz 48.5 Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin. The Imaginary Invalid, script, 1950 48.6 Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin. Tartuffe, script, undated 48.7 Myers, Henry. First 50 Years, script, undated 48.8 N – Nz 49.1 O – P 49.2 O'Neill, Eugene. Days Without End, stage manager's script, undated 49.3 O'Neill, Eugene. Marco Millions, script with handwritten note by Robert Downing, 1964 49.4 Osborne, Paul. Morning's at Seven, script with a few handwritten notes and emendations, undated 49.5 Parker, Dorothy. The Ladies of the Corridor, script, undated 49.6 Payne, Robert. Alexander and Thais, draft scripts, 1953 50.1 Payne, Robert. Death of an Empress, script, undated 50.2 Peterson, Louis. Take A Giant Step, script, 1952 Postcard collection: 59 (cb), 58.3 Performers, other people, and cats; oversize item removed to 58.3 60 (cb) Theatres, performances, costumes, fine arts / places, hotels, restaurants 61 (cb) Theatrical performers 50.3 Q – R 50.4 Rice, Elmer. Not for Children, script, undated 50.5 Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac, script, undated 50.6 S – Sh 50.7 Saroyan, William. The Time of Your Life, stage manager's script with handwritten notes, undated 50.8 Seff, Manuel. Blessed Event, script with handwritten emendations and inserts, 1930 51.1 Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew, sound cue script, undated 51.2 Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew, stage manager's script, undated 51.3 Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion, script adapted for radio, 1951 51.4 Sherman, Robert J. Rooms for Tourists, script with extensive handwritten notes, undated 51.5 Sherman, Robert J. Tildy Ann, script with handwritten revisions and notes, undated Sherwood, Robert E.: 51.6-7 Idiot's Delight, stage manager's script with handwritten revisions and notes, undated 51.8 There Shall Be No Night, script (cut version), 1940 52.1-2 There Shall Be No Night, stage manager's script, 1940 52.3 There Shall Be No Night, prop list, sides, and telegrams, 1940, undated 52.4 There Shall Be No Night (titled Revelation), scripts, 1940 Shulman, Max. The Tender Trap; oversize materials moved to flat file storage: 52.5, osf 3 Stage manager's script, 1954 52.6, osf 3 Mimeo scripts, undated 53.1, osf 3 Stage manager's script with production information, undated 53.2 Si – Sz 53.3 Stein, Joseph. Mr. Wonderful, script, 1957 53.4 Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men, script, 1937 53.5 T – Te 53.6 Th – V 53.7 Thayer, C. G. Ben Jonson, page proofs, 1963 54.1 Theatre Guild. Memory Book, script with lighting notes, 1958 54.2 Thurber, James. A Thurber Carnival, script, undated 54.3 Van Druten, John. Old Acquaintance, script, 1940 54.4 W – Wz 54.5-6 West, Mae. Catherine Was Great, stage manager's script, 1944 54.7 West, Mae. Catherine Was Great, script, undated 54.8 Willard, John. The Cat and Canary, script with handwritten notes, undated 55.1 Williams, Emlyn. Night Must Fall, script, 1935 Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 55.2 Correspondence, censored elephant story, and rewrite of Act III, 1955, undated 55.3 Script (incomplete), 101 pages, undated (Note: this script was previously misfiled in the Tennessee Williams collection, folder 9.5. The original is kept here, and replaced with a photocopy in the Williams collection.) 55.4 Script (incomplete), 121pages, undated 55.5 Script with inserts, 125 pages, undated (Note: this script was previously misfiled in the Tennessee Williams collection, folder 9.6. The original is kept here, and replaced with a photocopy in the Williams collection.) 55.6 Stage manager's script, with inserts and handwritten notes, 121 pages, undated 55.7 Stage manager's script, with inserts and handwritten notes, 125 pages, undated 56.1 Stage manager's script, with inserts and handwritten notes, 169 pages, undated Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire: 56.2 Stage manager's rehearsal copy, October 6, 1947 56.3 Stage manager's copy with handwritten notes, December 3, 1947 56.4 Prompt script, December 3, 1947 / corrected January 3, 1949 56.5 Script, December 3, 1947 / corrected January 3, 1949 57.1 Script with handwritten notes, December 3, 1947 / corrected January 3, 1949 57.2 Stage manager's copy, December 3, 1947 / corrected January 3, 1949 57.3 Telegram, September 5, 1949 57.4 Williams, Tennessee. Untitled article, photocopy of letter, 1953, 1974 57.5 Windeler, Robert. Julie Andrews, review proof copy, 1970 57.6 Y – Z 57.7 Young, Stanley. Laurette, script, undated 57.8 Young, Stark. Notes on Chekhov's The Seagull, 1938 58.1-2 See Additional Acquisitions; Not Described in Card Catalog Series V. Miscellaneous Scrapbooks, 1933-1962 Special handling note: The scrapbooks in this series are in fragile condition. Special handling techniques need to be used. 62.1 (osb) 1954 Summer Season; Helen Hayes Golden Anniversary, 1954 62.2 (osb) Around We Go, 1953-1954 63.1 (osb) The Bar Harbor Playhouse, 1947 63.2 (osb) Burl Ives; Seventeen, 1950-1952 63.3 (osb) Camelot, 1961-1962 63.4 (osb) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955-1956 63.5 (osb) Cats, undated 64.1 (osb) Chéri, 1959-1960 64.2 (osb) Doctor Christian Award, 1952 64.3 (osb) Evans, Maurice. Hamlet, 1945-1946 64.4 (osb) Happy Hunting, 1956-1957 64.5 (osb) Heartsong, 1947 64.5 (osb) The Players, 1953 64.5 (osb) Seagulls Over Sorrento, 1952 Greenburg, Morris B., various dates (restricted from use due to mold, do not page) 66.1 (osb) Al Jackson Players, Madison, WI; Federal Theatre, Chicago; IGA Tour, 1938-1939 66.1 (osb) Leefers Players, 1933 66.1 (osb) Passion Play & Hollywood, 1935-1938 66.1 (osb) Showboat Dixiana, Chicago, 1934-1935 66.2 (osb) The Long Dream, 1960-1961 66.3 (osb) Lullaby, etc., 1951 67.1 (osb) The Lunts, 1943-1952 67.2 (osb) Mexican Hayride, 1943-1944 67.3 (osb) Cherry Sisters; and others, 1934-1944 67.3 (osb) Mexican Hayride, 1944-1945 67.4 (osb) My Sister Eileen, 1941-1942 67.5 (osb) The Naked Genius, 1943-1944 67.6 (osb) Penthouse Theatre of Atlanta, 1950-1951 68.1 (osb) Reviews, 1953 68.2 (osb) Seventeen, 1951 68.3 (osb) The Tender Trap, 1954-1955 68.4 (osb) The Tender Trap, 1955 68.5 (osb) Under Canvas, 1941 69.1-5 (osb) A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947-1950, 5 books 70.1 (osb) Bandbox players, Suffield, Connecticut, 1941 70.1 (osb) My Sister Eileen, tour, 1942 70.1 (osb) We the People, 1936, 1938 59-61 Postcard collection in card boxes 62-71 Oversize material in oversize boxes Additional Acquisitions; Not Described in Card Catalog: 58.1 Internal Transfer, 1982: 58.1 25 letters to Downing, 1940-1974; one includes carbon copy from Downing; one encloses two pencil caricatures by Downing 58.1 3 autographs, 1910, undated 58.1 Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. The Danites..., actors sides, 25 pages, undated 58.2 Gift, 1983: 58.2 6 letters to Downing, 1969-1971, undated; one encloses publicity release