Series: Playbills

1920-1930

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Scope and Content Note

Productions in Box 1 include Abie's Irish Rose; Accused; Adrienne; An American Tragedy; Artists and Models; Artists and Models, Paris Edition

The Bachelor Father; Battling Buttler; Bird in Hand; Blackbirds of 1928; Blossom Time; Broadway; Bunk of 1926; Burlesque

Caesar and Cleopatra; Candida; The Captive; Caroline; Children of the Moon; China Rose; The Clinging Vine; The Common Sin; Congai; A Connecticut Yankee; Craig's Wife; The Constant Wife; Criminal Code; Coquette; The Cup; Cyrano de Bergerac

The Dancers; The Dancing Girl; Dawn; Death Takes a Holiday; Desire under the Elms; The Devil's Disciple; Dew Drop Inn; The Dream Girl

Earl Carroll's Sketch Book (1929); Easy Virtue; Elsie; The Enemy; The Fake; Fanny (1926); The Firebrand; The First Mrs. Fraser; Flossie; Flying High; The Front Page; Gay Paree (1925, 1926); George White Scandals (1925, 1926, 1929); The Ghost Train; The Girl Friend; Girl Trouble; Go-Go; Goin' Home; The Golden Spoon; A Good Bad Woman; The Grand Street Follies of 1928; The Great God Brown; The Green Hat; The Greenwich Village Follies (1921, 1923, 1924, 1926); The Guinea

Helen of Troy, New York; Hello, Everybody; Here's Howe; Hocus Pocus; Hold Everything; Honest Liars; Honor Be Damned; Hot Chocolates; In the Next Room; Iolanthe; It's a Wise Child; Iz Zat So?; Jarnegan; Jealousy; Journey's End; The Judge's Husband; Just Beyond; June Moon; Just Life

Keep Kook; The Kingdom of God; Kosher Kitty Kelly [!]

The Lady; The Lady in Ermine; The Last Mile; Leave It to Me; The Legacy; Let Us Be Gay; Little Jessie James; Little Miss Bluebeard; Lulu Belle

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Scope and Content Note

Productions in Box 2 include Machinal; The Magic Ring; The Magnolia Lady; Marck Millions; The Marionette Players (Teatro dei Piccoli di Roma); Marjorie; Mayflowers; The Merry World; Murray Anderson's Almanac; Music Box Review (1922, 1923, 1924); My Son

The New Moon; The Newcomers; The New Toys; Nifties of 1922; A Night in Paris; A Night in Spain; A Night in Venice; Night Hostess; Not So Fast

O Nightingale; One Kiss; One of the Family; Our Betters

Paris; The Passing Show of 1923; The Passing Show of 1924; The Patsy; Peter Pan; Poppy; Porgy; The Prisoner; Processional; Puzzles of 1925

Rain; Rain or Shine; Rainbow or Rose; The Rise of Rosie O'Grady; The Ritz Review; The Road to Rome; Rosalie; Rose-Marie; The Royal Family; Running Wild; Ruth Draper (1929)

Saint Joan; Sally, Irene and Mary; The Shanghai Gesture; She Could Say No; Show Girl; The Showoff; Simon Called Peter; So This Is Politics; Spice of 1922; Spring Fever; Strange Interlude; Street Scene; Student Prince; Sunny; Sweet Adeline; Sweetheart Time

Taps; They Knew What They Wanted; This Year of Grace; This'll Make You Whistle; Tiger Cats; Tin Pan Alley; Top Hole; Topaze; Topics of 1923; Topsy and Eva; The Trial of Mary Dugan

The Vagabond King; The Vortex

What Every Woman Knows; We've Got the Money; What's Your Wife Doing? ; White Cargo; White Collars; White Lights; Whitewashed; The Winged Messenger; Wings Over Europe; Wooden Kimono

Ziegfeld Follies (1923, 1927); Zig Zag

Handwritten Playbill Inventory by J. Fred Coots

Modern Playbills
Scope and Content Note: For Rumple (1957) and Tall Story (1959)

Three Miscellaneous Playbills

Vaudeville Playbills
Scope and Content Note: Included are playbills for these theaters and dates: Central (New York City), 1922 October 22 (Blanche Ring, Charles Winninger and song by J. Fred Coots, “The Broadway Strut”); Keith's Orpheum (Brooklyn), 1924 September 1 (Vincent Lopez): Teller's Shubert (Brooklyn), 1926 January 25 (Houdini); Keith's Fordham (Bronx), 1928, (Hoyt and Coots, several playlets presented by Joseph P. Kennedy [father of John Fitzgerald Kennedy]); Prospect (Brooklyn), 1928 November 18 (Hoyt and Coots); Proctor's (New Rochelle), 1928 December 31 (Hoyt and Coots); Keith Albee (White Plains), 1929, January 17 (Hoyt and Coots); New Palace (Chicago), 1929 January 27 (Hoyt and Coots, Burns and Allen, Kate Smith [“The Dixie Songbird”]); Keith Albee (Flushing), 1929 February 21 (Hoyt and Coots, Joe Laurie Jr., Will Rogers [film?], and an announcement of “our first 100 percent perfect, all talking film”); Palace, 1931 February 28 (Eddie Dowling, Fay Dooley [Mrs. Eddie Dowling], and J. Fred Coots); Chestnut Street Opera House (Philadelphia), [1921] November 14 (condensed production of Sally, Irene and Mary, with Eddie Dowling, and Eddie Dowling “single”); Apollo (Chicago), same bill as 1921 November 14; Palace, 1934 September 8 (Lillian Shade and J. Fred Coots).