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Zolotow, Sam
The productions are alphabetical by title. Some productions have working titles different from their actual titles: see the title list below.
Within each production the material is in this order: correspondence (ordered chronologically by year if a lot); background information; worksheets; summaries; scripts (if more than one version, the scripts are lettered arbitrarily A-F or whatever. Some scripts are annotated.); legal (includes contracts, etc.); financial (includes box office receipts, budget information, etc. Information re royalties of many the productions are in the separate general file Financial of the collection); photographs (includes photos of rehearsals, live productions, some photos of Spewacks working with cast); playbills (in English and foreign); clippings (includes advertisements, reviews, etc.); other (song lyrics, production information,miscellaneous); printed material (includes scripts printed in magazines, scripts in book form). The scrapbooks, sheet music, and posters for each production are in separate general files, as are audio-visual materials (record albums, audio tapes, films).
If there is not much information on a production (usually because it was never produced) then it is in one of the Miscellaneous boxes at the end of the production file. Also please note that sometimes a production was produced at different times under different titles, but one title--the most famous one--is used as a collective heading. For example, Leave it to Me is the collective heading for information about Clear All Wires and Sweeney, two earlier non-musical versions of the same basic storyline, later rewritten with Cole Porter as the musical Leave it to Me.
The titles in bold are the actual titles or collective headings.
Subseries IX.1: Alphabetic List
An Act of Virtue -- -- And the Angels Sang SEE My Three Angels -- -- At Rise SEE Misc. -- -- Big Boy SEE Misc. -- -- Better than Ever SEE Boy Meets Girl -- -- Black Stemmed Cherries SEE Misc. -- -- Blinski SEE Leave it to Me under Sweeney -- -- Borrowed Love SEE Misc. -- -- Boy Meets Girl -- -- Can Can SEE Misc. -- -- Cat and the Fiddle SEE Misc. -- -- Child's Play SEE Festival -- -- Clear All Wires SEE Leave it to Me -- -- A Comedy with Music SEE Misc. -- -- Comfort with Apples -- -- Comrade X SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Clear All Wires -- -- Countess and Conductor SEE The Orient Express -- -- La Cuisine des Anges SEE My Three Angels -- -- Dear Mr. Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Sweeney -- -- Deus Anges Sont Venus SEE My Three Angels -- -- Eine Schoene Bescherung SEE My Three Angels -- -- The Enchanted Nutcracker -- -- An English Play SEE Misc. -- -- Ex-Lover SEE Once There was a Russian -- -- Ex-Officer SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Ex-Officer X SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Female Human Being SEE Of Human Bondage -- -- Festival -- -- Gambling SEE Misc. -- -- The Gay Bride SEE Misc. -- -- A Gentleman's Gentleman SEE Misc. -- -- The Golden State -- -- Happy SEE Boy Meets Girl -- -- Hizzoner SEE Papa -- -- How to make a Woman Happy SEE Two Blind Mice -- -- I've Got a Book SEE Miss Swan Expects -- -- Kiss Me Kate -- -- A Kiss for Tomorrow SEE Misc. -- -- Kuess Mich Kaetchen SEE Kiss Me Kate -- -- Lady Liz SEE Mrs. A. -- -- The Lamplighter SEE Comfort with Apples -- -- Lawyer Lady and Thief SEE The Night is Young -- -- Leave it to Me -- -- Leo McCrary #2 SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Liebe=x SEE Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- Life with the Wooleys SEE Misc. -- -- Look to the Ant SEE Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- The Lost Soldier SEE Misc. -- -- Manna Falls for Moses SEE The Shyster -- -- Manhatten Miracle SEE The Night is Young -- -- Meet the Wife SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Miracle in Manhatten SEE The Night is Young -- -- Miss Swan Expects -- -- Move Over Darling SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Mr. Broadway -- -- Mr. Jennings SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Mr. Jenkins SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Mr. King's Case -- -- Mrs. A. -- -- My Favorite Wife -- -- My Three Angels -- -- The Night is Young -- -- Nucleus SEE Out West it's Different -- -- Nize Baby SEE Misc. -- -- Of Human Bondage -- -- Once there was a Russian -- -- One Man's Venus -- -- The Orient Express -- -- Out West it's Different -- -- Perfect Pitch SEE Festival -- -- Pincus SEE Poppa -- -- Play it by ear SEE Festival -- -- The Play's the Thing SEE Misc. -- -- Pleasures and Palaces SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- Poppa -- -- Portrait of Boy with Ladder SEE Out West it's Different -- -- Potemkin SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- Pousse Toi Cherie SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- The Prince and Mr. Jones SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- The Princess and the Pauper -- -- Private Jones SEE Once there was a Russian OR War Song -- -- Eine Schoene Bescherung SEE My Three Angels -- -- The Shyster -- -- Sister Carrie SEE Misc. -- -- Sisters SEE Misc. -- -- Sky Trapped SEE Misc. -- -- The Solitaire Man -- -- Something's Got to Give SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Spring Song -- -- Spring Song SEE Misc. (this short script seems unrelated to the above--has different plot, different characters) -- -- Swing High Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Sweeney -- -- Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me -- -- Theodora SEE Misc. -- -- There Goes the Ballgame SEE An Act of Virtue -- -- Trousers to Match SEE Miss Swan Expects -- -- Trousers to Match SEE Short Stories and Articles, Bella (this story seems unrelated to the play of the same name) -- -- Twisting the Law SEE The Shyster -- -- Two Acts of Virtue SEE An Act of Virtue -- -- Two Angels Have Come SEE My Three Angels -- -- Two Blind Mice -- -- Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- Unmarried Father SEE Misc. -- -- Vogues SEE Misc. -- -- The War Song -- -- The Way of a Hen SEE Festival -- -- Weekend at the Waldorf -- -- White Girl -- -- Wings SEE The Solitaire Man -- -- Woman Bites Dog -- -- Woman Overboard SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Young Man with a Ladder SEE Out West it's Different -- -- You're Only Young Twice SEE Misc. -- -- Zwei Blinde Huener SEE Two Blind Mice
Subseries IX.2: An Act of Virtue
Subseries IX.3: Boy Meets Girl
Box 9
Correspondence, 1935-1956, 24 folders,
[Includes opening night telegrams, correspondence re. printed book]
Box 10
Correspondence, 1957-1980, 21 folders,
Worksheets, 2 folders,
Scripts: -- --Script A/2 (prompt script, annotated) -- --Script A (2 copies) -- --Script B
Box 11
Script C -- Script D (film) -- Script E (film) -- Script F (film, final) -- Script E (Italian, annotated) -- Script G (German, annotated) -- Script H (German)
Legal: -- --contracts [includes contracts r.e. BMG game, re. legal protection afforded title]
Box 12
Financial, 7 folders,
[Includes financial information for British production, box office receipts from tour, misc.)]
Box 13
Photos -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other (includes menu from Hollywood dinner, list of places BMG was performed, misc.) -- Softcover printed books: 2 copies version 1; 2 copies version 2 (includes Spring Song); 1 copy version 2 with inscription and annotations -- Hardcover printed books: 2 copies version 1; 3 copies version 2 (includes Spring Song) all inscribed
Subseries IX.4: Comfort Me with Apples
Subseries IX.5: The Enchanted Nutcracker
Subseries IX.6: Festival
Box 16
Correspondence r.e. Perfect Pitch -- Correspondence--opening night telegrams -- Correspondence 1950-1970 (3 folders) -- Worksheets for Perfect Pitch (2 folders) -- Worksheets -- Summary -- Scripts: -- -- Script A ("The Way of a Hen," 2 copies) -- -- Script B ("Perfect Pitch," annotated) -- -- Script C ("Perfect Pitch")
Box 17
Script D ("Perfect Pitch," 5 copies, 3 annotated) -- Script E (2 copies, both annotated) -- Script F (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- Script G (incomplete, annotated)
Box 18
Script H (incomplete) -- Script I (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- Legal: -- --Contracts for Way of a Hen -- -- Contracts for Perfect Pitch; Contracts -- Financial -- Photos (of finished production) -- Playbills: Perfect Pitch; Festival -- Clippings: Way of a Hen; Perfect Pitch; Festival; Typewritten reviews -- Other (includes scene design, audience survey, interview questions, misc.) -- Printed Material: Printed scripts--"Play it by Ear"
Subseries IX.7: The Golden State
Subseries IX.8: Kiss Me Kate
Box 21
Correspondence, 1948-1958
[Includes opening night telegrams,13 folders]
Box 22
Correspondence, 1959-1962, 8 folders,
Box 23
Correspondence, 1963-1965, 8 folders,
Box 24
Correspondence, 1966-1968, 9 folders,
Box 25
Correspondence, 1969-1981, 16 folders,
Box 26
Background Material: The Taming of the Shrew in hardback, 2 copies; The Taming of the Shrew, typescript; Hallmark Hall of Fame t.v. script of Shrew, annotated, 2 copies; Worksheets for Hallmark script (non-Spewack) -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summaries -- Song lyrics -- Song lyrics revisions -- Script fragments
Box 27
Scripts--bound: Script A (5 copies, 2 annotated, 1 labeled British); Script B (2 copies, 1 annotated); Script C (3 copies, 1 annotated, 1 labeled Final)
Box 28
Scripts--for television: Script D (2 copies, both incomplete); Script E (Hallmark Hall of Fame, 3 copies, 2 annotated); Script F (BBC, 2 copies, 1 annotated)
Box 29
Scripts--foreign: Script G (Danish); Script H (French); Script I (Icelandic); Script J (Italian, 2 copies); Script K (Swedish)
Box 30
Script in Braille
Box 31
Legal: -- --contracts: -- Hurok Attractions -- Hallmark Hall of Fame -- Scholastic Book Services -- Knopf -- Film -- Argentina -- Australia -- Belgium (Brussels) -- Czechoslovakia -- England (BBC) -- England (Sadler's Wells Opera, London) -- England (St. Subber and Samuel Ayers) -- England (director's) -- France (translation) -- France (Paris) -- France (Societe des Auteurs) -- Germany-Austria Switzerland -- Greece -- Holland (SEBA) -- Italy -- Japan -- Mexico -- Norway-Sweden-Denmark-Poland -- Yougoslavia -- Poland -- Yugoslavia -- -- Financial (3 folders misc.)
Financial, 3 (misc.) folders,
Box 32
Financial, 8 misc. folders,
Box 33
Photos: -- --negatives -- --Cole Porter and Bella -- --Ingrid Bergman, Bella, Bob Wright -- --Broadway production -- --Wagner College production -- --North Shore Music Theater production -- --Seattle production -- --Century Theater production -- --Misc. -- --The Taming of the Shrew (non-Spewack)
Box 34
Photos--foreign productions: -- --Posters for foreign productions: -- --Argentina, Buenos Aires -- --Austria, Vienna -- --Belgium, Brussels -- --Canada, Toronto -- --Czechoslovakia, Prague -- --Denmark, Copenhagen -- --England, Sadler's Wells Opera, London -- --England, BBC -- --Germany, Frankfurt -- --Germany -- --Holland -- --Hungary -- --Iceland, Reykjavik -- --Israel -- --Italy, Trieste -- --Japan, Tokyo -- --Norway, Oslo -- --Poland, Warsaw -- --Sweden, Malmo -- --Turkey, Ankara -- --Yugoslavia, Zagreb
Box 35
Playbills (in English)
Box 36
Playbills (in foreign languages)
Box 37
Clippings (reviews and references--includes printed articles, ads, typescripts): -- Anta Album references -- ABC t.v. productions reviews -- Bergman, Wright, Bella--interview typescript -- Century Theater reviews -- Civic Light Opera reviews -- Hallmark Hall of Fame t.v. production reviews -- Kabuki Theater reviews -- Elizabeth Larner clippings -- "Much Ado About Kate" article by Bella -- "My Life with Shakespeare" article by Bella -- New York City Center reviews -- Playboy article mentioning KMK -- Cole Porter clippings, etc. -- Shubert Theater reviews -- The Taming of the Shrew film reviews (some mention KMK) -- Theater Arts cover -- "We've Been There Before" article by Bella -- "Woman Behind Girl Scout Cookies and Kiss Me Kate" -- Misc. references -- Misc. reviews -- Misc. reviews--financial (box office intake lists) -- Misc. typescripts of reviews -- Misc. typescripts of reviews by Bella -- Misc. retrospective reviews
Box 38
Clippings--foreign: -- --Argentina (Buenos Aires) (typescript) -- --Austria (Vienna) -- --Belgium (Brussels) (typescript and printed) -- --Czechoslovakia -- --England (BBC) -- --France -- --Germany (typescript and printed) -- --Holland (typescript) -- --Hungary (Budapest) -- --Israel (typescript and printed) -- --Italy (Trieste) -- --Italy (Verona) -- --Poland (typescript and printed) -- --Soviet Union -- --Sweden (Malmo) -- --Turkey -- --Yugoslavia (typescript and printed)
Other: -- --Publicity package -- --"Under Discussion: Shakespeare" script -- --KMK tour information -- --New York Public Library Exhibit -- --Production information -- --Misc.
Box 39
Printed Material: -- --Knopf script (1 copy, 1 photocopy) -- --German script ("Kuess Mich Kaetchen") (2 copies) -- --Dutch script (2 copies) -- --Japanese script -- --Script printed in Theater Arts Magazine -- --Book jackets for Knopf edition
Subseries IX.9: Leave it to Me as Clear All Wires
Subseries IX.10: Leave it to Me as Sweeney
Subseries IX.11: Leave it to Me as Leave it to Me
Subseries IX.12: Miss Swan Expects
Subseries IX.13: Mr. Broadway
Subseries IX.14: Mr. King's Case
Subseries IX.15: Mrs. A.
Subseries IX.16: My Favorite Wife
Subseries IX.17: My Three Angels
Box 49
Correspondence, 1952-1985, 33 folders,
[Includes correspondence with Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont 1953-1954]
Box 50
Background: -- --Subber translation of Husson's play -- --Millington translation of Husson's play -- --Pierre's adaptation of Husson's play (French) -- --Translation of Pierre's adaptation (2 copies) -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summary (2 copies, 1 annotated)
Box 51
Scripts: -- --Script A -- --Script B -- --Script C -- --Script D "And the Angels Sang" 3 copies, 1 annotated
Box 52
Scripts: -- --Script E ("We're No Angels" film) -- --Script F (for t.v. 2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script G (for BBC radio 2 copies) -- --Script H (Hebrew) -- --Script I (Spanish)
Box 53
Legal: -- --Contracts (3 folders) -- --Paramount squabble: -- -- Trial transcript -- --Background for case -- --Misc. (correspondence, etc.) -- --Misc.
Box 54
Financial: -- --Information re. audit -- --British production -- --Australian production -- --Misc. (3 folders)
Box 55
Photos--of various performances -- Playbills: English and Foreign -- Clippings: Reviews of Film; Reviews of t.v. production; Misc.; Misc. foreign -- Other: Production information--list of cities for road tour, press releases, etc. -- Printed Material: -- --Husson play "La Cuisine des Anges" in French -- --German version of Husson play: "Eine Schoene Bescherung" -- --Script of My Three Angels in Theater Arts Magazine (2 copies) -- --Printed scripts of My Three Angels in book form: Uncorrected proof with annotations; Edition A (2 copies); Edition B (2 copies); Edition C (3 copies, 1 inscribed and annotated)
Subseries IX.18: The Night is Young
Subseries IX.19: Of Human Bondage
Subseries IX.20: Once There Was a Russian
Box 58
Correspondence 1928-1975 (17 folders) -- Background--historical information about John Paul Jones, etc. -- Worksheets (1-3 of 6 folders)
Box 59
Worksheets (4-6 of 6 folders) -- Summary ("A Russian Story" 2 versions) -- Scripts: -- --Script A ("Ex-Lover" 2 copies, both annotated) -- --Script B ("Pleasures and Palaces" 2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script C ("Pleasures and Palaces" annotated)
Box 60
--Script D (2 copies, both annotated, 1 labeled "Ex-Lover") -- --Script E ("Ex-Lover," annotated) -- --Script F ("Ex-Lover," annotated) -- --Script G (untitled, annotated) -- --Script H (untitled, annotated, 2 copies, 1 incomplete) -- --Script I ("The Prince and Mr. Jones," copies 1-2 of 7, 1 annotated)
Box 61
Script I ("The Prince and Mr. Jones," copies 3-7 of 7, 3-5 annotated)
Box 62
Legal: Contracts; Misc. -- Financial--box office statements, etc. -- Photos: -- --Posters, Performance with Walter Matthau -- --negatives -- --Ari Kutai, Israeli actor trying for role -- Playbills: -- --The Prince and Mr. Jones -- --Once There Was a Russian -- Clippings -- Other--rehearsal schedule, actors' phone list, etc. -- Printed Material: "The Prince and Mr. Jones" script in book form
Subseries IX.21: One Man's Venus
Subseries IX.22: The Orient Express
Subseries IX.23: Out West it's Different
Subseries IX.24: Poppa
Subseries IX.25: The Princess and the Pauper
Subseries IX.26: The Solitaire Man
Subseries IX.27: The Shyster
Subseries IX.28: Spring Song
Subseries IX.29: Two Blind Mice
Subseries IX.30: Under the Sycamore Tree
Subseries IX.31: The War Song
Subseries IX.32: Weekend at the Waldorf
Subseries IX.33: White Girl
Subseries IX.24: Woman Bites Dog
Subseries IX.35: Miscellaneous Spewack Productions
Box 82
At Rise by Bella. Worksheets, Script (2 copies) -- Big Boy by Bella and Sam. Summary -- Black Stemmed Cherries by Bella. Synopsis of play by Hunyady -- Borrowed Love by Bella Cohen and Sam. Summary (2 copies) -- Can Can by ? Involves Cole Porter. Correspondence, Legal--contracts -- Cat and the Fiddle Clipping -- A Comedy with Music by Bella and Sam. Summary (2 copies) -- An English Play Worksheets -- Gambling by Sam and George M. Cohan Correspondence, Script (annotated), Legal--transcription of examinations before trial -- The Gay Bride Photo with Bella's note on back
Box 83
A Gentleman's Gentleman by Bella and Sam. Script (2 copies) -- A Kiss for Tomorrow by Bella and Sam. Correspondence, Script (2 copies) -- Life with the Wooleys by Bella. Involves Billie Burke. Correspondence, Worksheets, Script (2 copies) -- The Lost Soldier by Bella Cohen and Sam. Summary (version A 2 copies, version B 2 copies) -- Meet the Wife by Bella. Adapted from play by Lynn Starling. -- Nize Baby by Bella and Milt Gross. Script, Clipping -- The Play's the Thing by Bella and Sam. Script (film, 2 copies) -- Sister Carrie by Bella and Sam. Correspondence, Background, Script (film) -- Sisters by Bella (and maybe Sam) Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Skipper by ? Summary (incomplete)
Box 84
Sky Trapped by ? Script (annotated) -- Spring Song by Bella. Seems unrelated to more famous play. Summary (version A 2 copies, version B 2 copies) -- Theodora by ? Script -- Vogues by ? Correspondence, Clippings -- Unmarried Father by Bella. Summary (2 copies) -- You're Only Young Twice by Bella and Sam. Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated), Script (2 copies) -- Untitled works: -- -- #1: worksheets for play in postwar Germany -- --#2: correspondence, background on Anton Dvorak -- --#3: "#59" Summary--WWII propaganda -- --#4: comedy for Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, by Bella and Leo McCary. Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Misc. notes and worksheets--some notebooks of shorthand (2 folders) -- Misc. lists of plays -- Misc. clippings re. more than one play
Subseries IX.36: Miscellaneous Non-Spewack Productions
Box 85
Anne Frank Correspondence -- The Best Butter Correspondence, Legal--contract -- A Death of No Importance (Une Mort Sans Importance) by Yvan Noe. Correspondence, Translation, Printed French Script -- The Fabrizzi System by Albert Husson. Correspondence, Translation (version A, version B 2 copies), Printed French Script -- Ghost Goes West by Arthur Loew. Correspondence, Background, Summary (2 copies) -- Les Girls Correspondence, Legal--contract -- Les Hussards by P. A. Breal. Translation, Printed French Script
Box 86
The Immortal Idler by Bruno Frank. Translation by Jerome Lachenbruch -- An Old Wive's Tale by Arnold Bennett. Correspondence -- Reunion in Vienna by Robert E. Sherwood. Correspondence, Script -- Send Me No Flowers by ? Notes, Clippings -- The Torch Bearers by George Kelly. Script -- Misc. playbills
Subseries X.1: Bella
Box 87
"Arms and the Man" incomplete MS -- "Bennie, My Boy!" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Bennie's Annie" MS -- "[Russian] Bernhardt of the Ballet" MS, printed -- "The Big Chance" MS (2 copies) -- "Big Town Love" MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Binding LIne" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Birds of a Feather" MS (version A, 3 copies, 1 annotated; version B, 3 copies, 1 annotated; financial) -- "Children of the Asphalt" MS, printed -- "Cigarette Money" or "Cigarette Over Europe" MS, printed -- "Cinderella on Grand Street" MS (2 copies) -- "City Girl" MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Conspiracy on Wheels" MS -- "The Cutter's Saturday Night" MS -- "Deena's Diary" MS, printed -- de la Falaise stories (ghosted): -- --Correspondence -- --"Antiques" MS -- --"Paris Luck" MS -- --"The Paris Divorce" printed -- --"Glorifying the Gigolo" MS -- "The Divorce" MS (2 copies) -- "Down Czechoslovakia Way" MS -- "Fantasies from the Ghetto": -- --Part 1: "Roaches are Golden" MS (2 copies) -- --Part 2: ? (missing) -- --Part 3: "The Magic Mint Mitten" printed -- --Part 4: "The Icicle that Wept Alone" MS (2 copies), printed -- --Part 5: "The Mustard Millennium of Hester Street" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Figure Fragment" or "We'll Do the Rest" MS (3 versions) -- "For Certain Temperaments, I Recommend Trial Marriage" (ghosted) MS -- "Furniture of the Fourth Dimension" printed (2 copies)
Box 88
"Gramercy!" MS (2 copies) -- "The Guy from Heaven" MS, printed -- "Half a Dream" MS (version A, 2 copies, 1 annotated; version B, 2 copies, printed, 2 copies) -- "Hands: A Few Sketches from Life" MS (2 copies), printed -- "The Homerun of the Prodigal" MS (2 copies) -- "The House": -- --"Lilly" MS (5 copies, 2 in German) -- --"Feinstein" MS (4 copies, 2 in German) -- --"The Bad Woman" MS (2 copies) -- "I Know Nothing of the Einstein Theory" Correspondence, Background, MS -- "I'm Thinking of My Darling" MS -- "The Ink-Slingers Debacle" printed -- "The Iron Horse" MS (2 copies), printed -- "The Kesslers" MS -- "Kitty" or "Cherry Flats Fairy Tale" MS (version A, 2 copies; version B; version C) -- "The Laugh" Correspondence, MS (4 copies, 2 in German), printed -- "The Little Lame Chorus Girl" MS (versions A-C) -- "The Last Walk" MS (annotated) -- "Love Pays to Advertise" MS -- "Love Story" Correspondence, MS (2 copies), financial -- "The Lyric Daughter of the Sober Russians" printed
Box 89
"Madame Holzappel" MS, printed -- "Molly Delaney Finds" MS (2 copies) -- "Moscow Mosaics" MS's: -- --"The Beggar and the Merchant" -- --"In Memorium" -- --"Moscow in the Moon" -- --"The Old Ballerina" -- --"She Who Laughed Last" -- --"The Ugly Artist" -- --"The Neppa and the Dressmaker" -- "My Advent into Society" MS -- "My Galatea" (ghosted) MS -- "My People": -- --1. "The Unwanted Guest" MS (2 copies) -- --2. "Painted Cages" MS (2 copies), printed -- --3. "The Manicure Set" MS ( 2 copies, printed) -- --4. "The Gods of the Movies" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Naughty Marietta" MS (versions A-B) -- "The Naughty Princess" MS (2 copies) -- "Of Mathilda Thecla Forte" MS -- "Oh, Yes, The Woman Pays!" MS -- "Once there was a Princess" or "The Gay Goddess" MS (2 copies) -- "Our Unoffical Ambassadors" MS -- "Out of the East" or "Leave it to the Lord" MS (version A, 2 copies; version B, 2 copies; printed) -- "Passage to Paris" or "Bird of Paris" or "Via Paradisa" MS -- "The Passing of La Vie Boheme" MS -- "The Passing of the Stranger" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Perel Brandt" MS (3 copies, 1 in German) -- "Plays and Reviews on Berlin's Stage" printed -- "Princesses I Have Educated" (ghosted) MS (2 copies)
Box 90
"The Reincarnation of Rose Pastor Stokes" Background, MS -- "Sara Resnikoff" MS (version A, 2 copies; version B, 2 copies, printed) -- "Silent Lydia, a Tale of the Tenements" MS -- "Streets of Berlin" MS (2 copies, 1 incomplete) -- "Sweet Poppa" MS -- "The Theater and Other Things in Moscow" MS -- "Thieving Youth" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Three American Dollars" MS -- "The Three Who Could Not Speak" MS (2 copies), printed -- "To the Chesterfield Cluett Peabody Cigarette Man" printed -- "Trousers to Match" (seems unrelated to play) MS -- "Truman Pictured as Understudy Who Stepped In and Saved Show" printed (4 copies) -- "Two New Dresses in Two Years" (ghosted) printed -- "Under the Sidewalks of New York" or "The Subway City" MS -- "The Upper Deck Girl" MS -- "Voices of Spring" MS, printed (2 copies), -- "When the Bells Stopped Ringing" MS -- "Where Starving Artists Eat" MS (incomplete) -- "Why I Voted for Hinkety Blink" printed -- "With a Purpose" MS -- "Women of Red Russia" printed -- "Yetta's Fella" or "An Orchard Street Idyll" MS (version A; version B, 2 copies); printed -- "You Look Just Like..." printed -- "You Meet So Many Interesting People" MS (2 copies)
Box 91:
List -- Letter to Playboy, printed -- Articles r.e. Germany, esp. Berlin, under name Isabel Spewack, MS's -- Untitled incomplete MS with references to Mrs. Einstein, Princess Eudoxie, "Arms and the Man" -- MS fragments r.e. Russia -- MS fragments r.e. theater and travel -- Housing article--Correspondence, Background, MS, clippings -- Info. r.e. Kreuzer -- Info. r.e. "For the Love O' Lil" -- MS fragments (12 folders) -- Clippings -- Clippings (in German) -- Scrapbook (small)
Box 92:
Special: Long Works [Anastasia Material]: Correspondence (some in German) -- Background information (personal statements) -- MS by Bella (2 copies) -- Financial (cancelled checks) -- Photos and pictures -- Clippings: Article by Bella (Cohen) in NY Times (original and 3 photocopies); Article by Bella (Cohen) in Titbits (original and 2 photocopies); r.e. Film; r.e. Musical; r.e. Play (includes playbill and printed script); r.e. Ballet; Misc. related clippings
Box 93
Special: Long Works [Streets or Why I Wrote Comedy]: Bella's autobiography--Worksheets (4 folders); Final MS; Photocopy of final MS
Box 94:
Special: Long Works [UNRRA Material]: Correspondence -- Reports and other information (2 folders) -- Transcriptions of Bella's radio broadcasts -- Information r.e. Bella's other work with UNRRA -- Financial -- Picture cards -- Bella's i.d.'s and letters of introduction
Box 95:
Photographs (3 folders); Clippings; Pamphlets
Subseries X.2: Sam
Box 96
"Anatomy of Humor" Correspondence, MS (2 copies) -- "Between Raids" printed (2 copies) -- "Boris Buys a Rose" printed (2 copies) -- "Brands Across the Sea" printed -- "Bread and Salt" MS -- "Broadway Revolution" printed 8 part series -- The Busy Busy People (first titled "A Can of Peaches") Correspondence, Clippings (reviews) -- "Bye Bye Blackbird" MS (2 copies) -- "Confession" MS (2 copies) -- "Democracy Marches" transcript of radio discussion -- "Down Memory Lane" MS (refers to "Spring Song") -- "Exiles of the Sky" or "Salvage" Correspondence, MS, printed table of contents from magazine -- "Gentleman Joe" MS (2 copies) -- "The Gift of the Little Gods" MS (annotated) -- "A Grand Dukes's Diary" (translation) MS (3 copies, 2 annotated) -- Great Farces introduction MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Gypsy Pilot" MS (4 copies, 2 annotated) -- "Hands Across the Sea" printed (2 copies) -- "Hero" MS (version A 2 copies; version B) -- "The High Sign" MS (2 copies) -- "Home Sweet Home" MS (2 copies, 1 incomplete)
Box 97
"The Last Job" MS -- "Madame Luck" printed -- "Moonbeam" MS, printed -- Murder in the Gilded Cage Correspondence, Legal -- "Nameless Coffee House" MS -- "Nikita" printed (in Swedish) -- "The Philanthropic Urge" MS (version A, version B) -- "Presenting Morris Guest": Correspondence; MS version A; MS version B (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Prisoner's Song" Correspondence, MS (version A 2 copies; version B 2 copies) Financial -- "Quelque Fleurs" MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "Red Russia Revealed" printed (in book form, 2 copies) -- "The Schoolmaster" MS (annotated) -- "Silver Sails" MS -- Skyscraper Murder Financial -- "The Song of Life" MS -- "The Spectators" MS (2 copies, 1 annotated)
Box 98
"This is Russia" Correspondence, MS, Financial -- "Trotsky" MS -- "The Watch on the Hudson" MS (2 copies) -- "Wings and a Woman" MS, Financial, Legal, printed (2 copies) -- "Without Benefit of Cook's" MS (2 copies) -- "Whom Lola Loves" MS -- World at War: Correspondence, notes; Film script (2 photocopies), title list; Press releases and clippings -- Miscellaneous: -- --#1. List -- --#2. Correspondence, story idea -- --#3. Story idea -- --#4. untitled story -- --#5. Editorial MS -- --#6. Untitled MS r.e. Fanny Hurst -- --#7. Clippings (articles by Sam)
Subseries X.3: Bella and Sam together
All of the posters have been reproduced in microfiche form. There are 29 microfiche, each containing 2 images. The fiche must be used before the original material is called for. Many of the posters are quite large and fragile.
Subseries XXIII.1: Boy Meets Girl
Photographic reproduction not on film, Court Theatre, 15 x 11
Box 151 Fiche 95-32001
Teatro Americano, 31 x 23
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32001
Master Negative Number 95-32001, Teatro Americano (2), 31 x 23
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32002
Teatro Americano (3), 31 x 23
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32002
Teatro Americano (4), 31 x 23
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32003
Theater Im Zimmer: Hamburg, 1956, 16 x 12
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Subseries XXIII.2: Clear All Wires (Film)
Box 151 Fiche 95-32003
MGM, 41 x 27
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Subseries XXIII.3: Festival
Box 151 Fiche 95-32004
Longacre Theatre: New York, 14 x 22
Original Poster is in Box
Subseries XXIII.4: Kiss Me Kate
Box 151 Fiche 95-32004
Castellio Di San Giusto: Trieste (1), 13 x 28
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32005
Castellio Di San Giusto: Trieste (2), 13 x 28
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32005
Frasier Theatre: University of North Colorado, 14 x 22
Original Poster is in Box
Not on Fiche, Frasier Theatre: University of North Colorado, 5 x 14 handbill,
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32006
Master Negative Number: 95-32006, Loeb Drama Center: Cambridge, Mass., 18 x 23
Original Poster is in Box
Tube Box 154
Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA. Copy 1 of 2, 18 x 23
Tube Box 155
Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA. (Copy 2 of 2), 18 x 23
Box 151 Fiche 95-32006
Nieuw Rotterdam Toneel: Rotterdam, 18 x 26
Original Poster is in Box
Tube Box 155
Niew Rotterdam Toneel, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Copy a (1 of 2), 26.5 x 35.5
Tube Box 155
Niew Rotterdam Toneel, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Copy b (2 of 2), 26.5 x 36
Not on Fiche, O'Keefe Centre, 22.5 x 14
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32008
Master Negative Number: 95-32008, Operettszinhaz, 19 x 27
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32008
Panstwowy Teatr, 19 x 28
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32009
Sadler's Opera: London, 13 x 20
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32009
Shubert Theatre: New York, 14 x 23
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32010
Theatre de la Monnai: Belgium (1), 16 x 12
[Copy 1]
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32010
Theatre de la Monnai: Belgium (2), 23 x 18
Original Poster is in Box
Tube Box 156
Theatre Royale de la Monnaie, Belgium, 1961, 12 x 16.5 inches
Box 151 Fiche 95-32011
Volksoper: Vienna, 16 x 24
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32011
Castello de San Guisto: Trieste, 25 x 38
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32012
Connaught Theatre: [Brighton?], 20 x 30
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32012
Devlet Tiyatrosu: Turkey, 40 x 28
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32013
Dusseldorfer Schausnielhaus: Dusseldorf, 23 x 33
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32013
Estate Teatrale Veronese: Verona, 27 x 39
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32014
Israel National, 26 x 42
Box 151 Fiche 95-32014
Kansanyeatteri: Tyovaenteatterin, 27 x 37
Tube Box 152
Kansanyeatteri: Tyovaenteatterin, 27 x 40
Tube Box 152
Kansanyeatteri: Tyovaenteatterin, 27.5 x 40.5
Box 151 Fiche 95-32015
Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel: Rotterdam (1), 35 x 26
Mapcase 13-C-3
Not on Fiche, Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel: Rotterdam, 35 x 26
Box 151 Fiche 95-32016
Operett Szinhaaz, 22 x 32
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32016
Panstwowy Teatr, 20 x 29
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32017
Teatr Komedi, Zoliborz: Poland, 33 x 23
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32017
Teatr Muzyczyn: Poznan, 23 x 33
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32018
Unidentified Spanish Theater, 25 x 35
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Tube Box 153
Spanish Language Poster, 26 x 46
Tube Box 153
Spanish Language Poster, 26 x 46
Box 151 Fiche 95-32018
Japanese Production, 20 x 29
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Tube Box 156
Japanese Production, 20 x 29 inches
Box 151 Fiche 95-32019
Teatro Avenida: Argentina, 58 x 45
Original Poster is on 13: wire shelves
Box 151 Fiche 95-32020
Volksoper: Vienna, 1960, 48 x 34
Original Poster is on 13: wire shelves
Tube Box 154
Volksoper, Vienna, Austria, 1960. Copy 1 of 2, 17 x 24
Tube Box 154
Volksoper, Vienna, Austria, 1960. Copy 2 of 2, 17 x 24
Subseries XXIII.5: My Three Angels
Subseries XXIII.6: Once There Was a Russian
Subseries XXIII.7: Poppa
Box 151 Fiche 95-32022
Teatro Nrovo: Milan (1), 14 x 39
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32023
Teatro Nrovo: Milan (2), 28 x 39
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Subseries XXIII.8: Two Blind Mice
Box 151 Fiche 95-32023
Court Theatre: New York, 14 x 23
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32024
Court Theatre: New York, 11 x 14
[Unidentified sample poster]
Original Poster is in Box
Subseries XXIII.9: Under the Sycamore Tree
Box 151 Fiche 95-32024
Aldwych Theatre: London, 13 x 20
[Unidentified sample poster]
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32025
Alleteatern: [Stockolm], 16 x 19
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32025
His Majesty's Theatre: Aberdeen, 1952, 14 x 25
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32026
Lyceum Theatre: Edinburgh, 10 x 15
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32026
Theatre Royal: Brighton, 10 x 30
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32027
Theatre Royal: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1952, 13 x 25
Original Poster is in Box
Box 151 Fiche 95-32027
Aldwych Theatre: London, 21 x 35
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32028
Plaza Theatre: Maritius, 19 x 28
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32028
Teatre Odeon: [Milan?], 15 x 45
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Box 151 Fiche 95-32029
Theatre Royan: Newcastle, 1952, 21 x 34
Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03
Subseries XXIII.10: Woman Bites Dog
Box 151 Fiche 95-32029
Ford's Theatre, 14 x 22
Original Poster is in Box
Subseries XXIII.11: The Amazing Sacco-Van Zetti Case