Emmet Lavery Papers, 1925-1962

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 60AN
Series: Scripts
Plays
Box   1
Dawn's Early Light, revised, 1959 June
Note: Commissioned by the state of Oregon; premiere performance at the University of Oregon.
Box   1
Fenelon, German version
Note: Performed at the State Theatre in Basel, Switzerland, 1956.
Box   1
The Gentleman from Athens, German version
Note: German title: Der Herr aus Athen. Written in 1947, German translation 1953, not produced in Germany as of February 1965.
Box   1
Hail to the Chief
Note: Produced in the State Theatre, Saarbrucken, 1958, under the title of The Indispensible Man. Program included.
Box   1
The Ladies of Soissons, program
Note: Produced at the Pasadena Playhouse, 1964. Program included.
Box   1
The Magnificent Yankee, revisions and program
Note: Research for play undertaken on Rockefeller Foundation grant, 1942-1943; play first produced in 1946.
Box   1
Second Spring, adaptation, 1963
Note: First written in 1938; adapted in 1963.
Box   1
Tarquin, program, 1941
Note: Opera by Emmet Lavery and Ernst Krenek, first performed at the Experimental Theatre of Vassar College, 1941; subsequently performed at the Cologne Opera House, 1950. Program included.
Box   2
The World's My Oyster, 1961
Note: A play with music, based on the life of W.C. Fields.
Box   2
Yankee Doodles, 1964
Note: A play with dancing for Children's Theatre.
Television and Films
Box   2
Behind the Rising Sun (RKO), annotated, 1943
Box   2
Caesar and Cleopatra, second revision, 1959 February 19
Note: Produced on television starring Maurice Evans, 1959.
Box   2
The Magnificent Yankee, MGM Version, 1950
The Magnificent Yankee, Hallmark Hall of Fame Version, 1965
Note: Rebroadcast February 3, 1966.
Box   2
Script, 1965
338A/1
Tape Recorded Telecast, 1965
U.S. Mss 60AN
Box   2
Series: Articles and Letters, 1934-1962
Series: Federal Theatre Project
Box   3
Articles
Box   3
“The Flexible Stage,” manuscript of unpublished book
Box   3
Inventory of Federal Theatre Project personnel and equipment
News Surveys
Box   3
1937-1939
Oversize Folder  
1938
Box   4
Play list, 1936-1939
Box   4
Production photographs
Box   4
Miscellaneous theatre statistics
Box   4
Series: The Screen Writer, 1949 July-1948 July
Series: Clippings
Box   4
Regarding Monsignor's Hour, 1936; The First Legion, , 1950-1965; The Magnificent Yankee, , 1965
Box   4-5
Regarding the Billy Mitchell trial, 1925
Series: Miscellaneous Materials
Box   5
Articles and pamphlets
Box   5
Bookjackets and program for Song and the Scaffold
Box   5
Photographs and production stills from Monsignor's Hour, Hitler's Children, Behind the Rising Sun, The Gentleman from Athens
Box   5
Transcript of Emmet Lavery's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1947 October 29
Package   1
Oversize Photographs
Package   2
Pencil sketches of Fenelon