Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of October 19, 1911: "The Talk of the Town" a musical melange in three acts for the benefit of The Sheltering Arms Orphanage, starring famous actor Donald MacDonald (with photo), with prologue, song list, and entr'acte music by Pavane Recamier. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs, and coming attractions.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events on September 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, 1910: "The Lottery Man," a comedy in three acts by Rida Johnson Young, and "The Blue Mouse," a farce by Clyde Fitche; musical program: director John P. Rossiter, "Spirit of Peace" by Edwin Franko Goldman; "Madame Sherry" by Karl Hoschna; "L'Affinite" by Roberts; "Fireflies" by Paul Lincke; "Iman" by Mann. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs, coming attractions, and a list of theatrical stars appearing.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events the week of September 3, 1911: "Alias Jimmy Valentine" after O. Henry's short story "A Retrieved Reformation." Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schubert Theatre program listing events on September 18, 22, 23, 24, and 25, 1910: "The City," a play by Clyde Fitche, and "Lulu's Husbands," with Mabel Barrison and Harry Conor, and the original New York cast; musical program: director John P. Rossiter, "Spirit of Peace" by Edwin Franko Goldman; "Madame Sherry" by Karl Hoschna; "L'Affinite" by Roberts; "Fireflies" by Paul Lincke; "Iman" by Mann. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs, coming attractions, and a list of theatrical stars appearing.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Schwartz, Louis L. (author); Civic Players of Minneapolis (producers)
Date Created:
1919
Description:
The Civic Players of Minneapolis were a community theater group that organized in March 1918. Their stated purpose was "to develop the drama on a broad, democratic basis and to make Minneapolis not so much a city of theaters as a community with a playhouse." In 1919, in the wake of WWI, they performed a historical pageant entitled "Swords and Plowshares" on the steps of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The pageant was intended to theatrically illustrate history's greatest wars and to point out the "indisputable fact ... that the ideal of Democracy has been steadily struggling upward through the years of violence and stress." To highlight the success of democracy and civilization at the local level the players included the names and images of notable Minneapolis institutions, landmarks, and businesses in the front and back of their playbill. The playbill provides insight into what the people of early twentieth-century Minneapolis perceived to be their city's finest qualities and is a record of the city's most important buildings and businesses following World War I.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library