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
Orpheum Theatre program listing events from the week of April 20, 1919. Events include a Musical Program and a Concert Program for the Orpheum Travel Weekly with the Orpheum Theatre Orchestra directed by Albert Rudd; Kinograms, the visual news of all the world; the Mizuma Japs, an oriental fantasy; Jennings and Mack in "The Camouflage Taxi"; Joseph E. Bernhard presenting "Who Is She?" a comedy playlet by Willard Mack; Edwin George in A Comedy of Errors; Martin Beck presenting The Marion Morgan Dancers, in a dance drama in the time of Attila and the Huns; Buster Santos and Jacque Hays, the girls with the funny figures in "The Health Hunters"; "Birds of a Feather," a pantomimical fantasy of the forest with Bert Ford and Pauline Price; Orpheum Travel Weekly, round the world with the Orpheum Circuit's moving picture photographer. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs, and a glued newspaper clipping.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Northwestern Conservatory of Music, Art, and Expression, Minneapolis
Date Created:
1920-1921
Description:
Yearbook of the Northwestern Conservatory Music, Art and Expression, for its 36th year. Includes: Foreword, Calendar, faculty list, descriptions of courses of instruction, general information, rules and regulation, tuition rates, diplomas and certificates awarded, and an index to the yearbook's contents.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
One page advertisement for Minneapolis Choral Society 1921-1922 season, which included "The Messiah," Second Concert featuring part songs and Florence Mabeth, and the May Music Festival. Also includes tear-off subscription form for season tickets.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Choral Society program listing music performed in concert at the Auditorium. The pieces performed were "March and Chorus from Tannhauser, 'Hail Bright Abode'" by Wagner; "Daybreak" by Faning; "My Lover, He Comes on the Ski" by Clough-Leighter; "Dawn" by Curran; "I Wish I Were a Tender Apple Blossom" from Old Irish; "At the Well" by Hageman; "Moonlight - Five Parts - Song" by Faning; "A Rondelay, Madrigal for Eight Parts" by Weidig; and "The New Earth" by Henry Hadley. Also includes text of "The New Earth," a list of Choral Society members, and advertisement for Metropolitan Music Store.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
One page advertisement for the Minneapolis Choral Society performance of "The Messiah," held at The Auditorium on December 26, 1921, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Four page program for the Minneapolis Choral Society performance of "The Messiah," held at The Auditorium on December 26, 1921, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Program includes text of Messiah and advertisement for Metropolitan Music Store.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
One page advertisement for the Second Concert of the 1921-1922 season of the Minneapolis Choral Society, held at The Auditorium and featuring soloist Florence Macbeth, "The Minnesota Nightingale."
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Choral Society program listing music performed in concert at the Auditorium. The Society was assisted by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. The pieces performed were "Overture to 'The Flying Dutchman'" by Wagner; "Aria - Flower Song" from "Carmen" by Bizet; "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F major" by Liszt; and "Symphony-Cantata, 'The Hymn of Praise', Op. 52," by Mendelssohn. Also includes text of "The Hymn of Praise" and a list of Society members.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Theater program for a performance at the Bijou Opera House. Program includes advertisements for dozens of local businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library