Albert R. Johnson Papers, 1910-1967

Container Title
Series: Theatre and Live Dramatic Performances
American Jubilee
Note: New York World's Fair, 1940
Box   4
Folder   1
Program, sheet music, clippings, photos and slides, 1940
Box   20
Folder   1
Showboat blueprints, 1937
Box   4
Folder   2
The American Theatre (proposed television program)
Notes and research clippings, 1955-1961
Americana
Note: Shubert, 1932
Box   4
Folder   3
Clippings, 1932
Aquacade
Box   4
Folder   4
Sheet music, programs, and clippings, 1939
Box   4
Folder   5
Aquacircus, 1957
Aquarama
Box   4
Folder   6
Clippings, 1960
Aquashow
Box   4
Folder   7
Programs, notes and clippings, 1954-1956
Box   20
Folder   2
Blueprints, 1949
Note: Also includes material on other aquatic shows, 1954-1955.
As Thousands Cheer
Note: Music Box, 1933
Box   4
Folder   8
Playbill, clippings, photographs, 1933-1934
WCFTR Name File
Stills
U.S. Mss 129AN
The Band Wagon
Note: New Amsterdam, 1931
Box   4
Folder   10
Sheet music, clippings, 1931
Between the Devil
Note: Imperial, 1937
Box   4
Folder   11
Playbills, clippings, photostats of sketches, 1937
Bonanza
Note: Nixon, Pittsburgh, 1945
Box   5
Folder   3
Contract, 1944
A Bottle an' a Bird
Box   4
Folder   12
Correspondence, 1956-1965
Box   4
Folder   13
Helen Green research, 1960
Helen Green stories, undated
Box   4
Folder   14
Not in UW Special Collections
Box   4
Folder   15
Stories annotated for script
Scripts
Box   4
Folder   16
Typed chapter drafts (annotated), 1958-1960
Box   5
Folder   1
Typed draft by William Henry Dawson, 1960
Box   5
Folder   2
Set sketches, undated
Box   5
Folder   4
Canadian National Exposition, Photographs, 1948
Carousel
Note

Carter-Barron Amphitheatre, 1953

See also Washington, D.C., Festival

Box   19
Folder   1
Small sketches
Box   20
Folder   3
Large sketches and photostatic copy of blueprint
The Chase
Note: Playhouse, 1952
Box   19
Folder   2
Small sketches
Box   20
Folder   4
Blueprints 1-7
Cloud Seven
Note: Golden, 1958
Box   20
Folder   5
Blueprints 2-7 and light plots
Box   5
Folder   5
Notes, playbills, clippings, fabric samples, 1958
Box   5
Folder   6
Picture research material and clippings, 1958
Coney Island Winter (ballet)
Box   5
Folder   7
Typed script by AJ, 1950
Crime Without Passion
Note: Paramount, 1934
Box   5
Folder   8
Clipping, 1934
The Criminal Code
Note: National, 1929
Box   5
Folder   9
Clippings, 1929
Cry Havoc
Note: Morosco, 1942
Box   19
Folder   3
Sketches
Exit the Queen
Note: Atlantic City, 1932
Box   5
Folder   10
Playbill, clipping, 1932
Face The Music Queen
Note: New Amsterdam, 1932
Box   5
Folder   11
Program and clippings, 1932
WCFTR Name File
Stills
U.S. Mss 129AN
Fancy Meeting You Again
Note: Royale, 1952
Box   5
Folder   12
Technical notes, 1952
Box   20
Folder   6
Blueprint of lightplot and floor plan
The First Dandelion
Box   5
Folder   13
Typed script by Ben Martin, undated
Fit For Treason
Box   5
Folder   14
General, 1967
Box   5
Folder   15
Typed script by George D. Ford, undated
Box   5
Folder   15
Mimeo script by George D. Ford, undated
Fort Worth Texas Frontier Centennial
Tube   1
Building blueprints
Box   5
Folder   16
Programs, clippings, 1936-1937
Box   5
Folder   17
Photographs, 1936-1937
Night club (Casa Manana shows)
Box   5
Folder   18
Programs, sheet music, clippings, 1939
Funny Girl
Note: Winter Garden, 1964
Box   5
Folder   19
Notes, 1963
George White's Scandals
Note: Alvin, 1938
Box   5
Folder   20
Playbills, clippings, 1939
Golden Gate
Box   5
Folder   21
Correspondence, 1945-1946, 1960
Box   5
Folder   22
Notes, 1942-1966
Box   5
Folder   23
Typed script, undated
Box   5
Folder   23
Typed script by AJ and Ben Martin (annotated), 1945 May 15
Box   5
Folder   23
Typed script by AJ (annotated), 1945 June 20
Box   5
Folder   24
Technical production notes and sketches, 1945
Box   5
Folder   25
Research material, 1945-1954
Great Lady
Note: Majestic, 1938
Box   6
Folder   1
Playbills, clippings and music, 1938
The Great Waltz
Note: Center, 1934
Box   6
Folder   2
Program and clippings, 1934
WCFTR Title File
Stills
U.S. Mss 129AN
Half Gods
Note: Plymouth, 1929
Box   6
Folder   3
Programs, clippings, 1929
Huckleberry Finn
Box   6
Folder   4
Audition notes, 1955
Box   6
Folder   5
Contracts and copyright, 1955
Box   6
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1951-1966
Box   6
Folder   7
Financial material, 1955
Box   6
Folder   8
Lyrics by Henry Sullivan
Box   6
Folder   9
Music and lyrics by Henry Sullivan
Box   6
Folder   10-11
Notes, Sullivan
Scripts
Box   6
Folder   13
Typed script by Marvin Moore, 1950
Box   6
Folder   12
Mimeo script by Marvin Moore, 1950
Box   6
Folder   14
Script change notes
Box   6
Folder   15
Miscellaneous research
Box   6
Folder   16-18
Picture research (general, plantations, steamboats)
I'd Rather Be Right
Note: Boston, 1937
Box   6
Folder   19
Clippings, 1937
John Henry
Note: 44th Street, 1940
Box   6
Folder   20
Playbill, sheet music, clippings, 1940
WCFTR Title File
Stills
U.S. Mss 129AN
Jumbo
Note: New York Hippodrome, 1935
Box   7
Folder   1
Program, playbill, coloring book, clippings, and photographs, 1935
WCFTR Title File
Stills
U.S. Mss 129AN
Leave It To Me
Note: Imperial, 1938
Box   7
Folder   2
Programs, playbills, music, clippings, 1938
Box   7
Folder   3
Photographs of sketches, 1938
Let 'Em Eat Cake
Note: Imperial, 1933
Box   7
Folder   4
Playbill, clippings, 1933
Life Begins at 8:40
Note: Winter Garden, 1934
Box   7
Folder   5
Program and clippings, 1934
Live Life Again
Note: Belasco, 1945
Box   7
Folder   6
Clippings, 1945
Magnificent Cuckold
Box   7
Folder   7
Budget, 1955
Box   7
Folder   8
Copyright and agreements, 1956-1959
Box   7
Folder   9-12
Correspondence, 1955-1967
Box   7
Folder   13
Handwritten and typed notes, 1957-1965
Box   7
Folder   14
Promotional brochure, undated
Scripts
Box   7
Folder   15
Typed William Drake translation, circa 1932
Box   7
Folder   16
Typed translation (annotated), by Laurence de Sybel and Peter Sutcliffe, 1955
Box   7
Folder   17
Typed script (annotated) by Peter Verstille, 1956
Box   8
Folder   1
Typed script by Peter Verstille, 1956
Box   8
Folder   2
Typed script by Peter Verstille, 1958
Box   8
Folder   3
Typed script by Peter Verstille, 1959
Box   8
Folder   4
Mimeo script by Peter Verstille, 1959
Box   8
Folder   5
Research notes
Box   8
Folder   6
Sketches
A Night at the Lambs
Box   8
Folder   7
Notes and clippings, 1966
Box   8
Folder   8
Correspondence regarding redecoration dispute, 1961-1965
Box   8
Folder   9
Typed script by G.R. Glenn, 1961
Box   8
Folder   9
Typed script by G.R. Glenn and notes, circa 1965
Box   8
Folder   10
Research
Night Life
Note: Brooks Atkinson, 1962
Box   8
Folder   11
Contract, playbill, clippings, 1962
Box   8
Folder   12
Fabric sample
Box   8
Folder   13
Notes
Box   8
Folder   14
Notes on lighting and sound and photostat of set design, 1962
Box   20
Folder   7
Blueprints and sketches of set designs and light plots
Box   9
Folder   1
Northwest Jubilee (Oregon centennial), 1958-1959
Box   9
Folder   2
Notes for undeveloped plays, 1956-1964
Of Thee I Sing
Note: Ziegfeld, 1952
Box   9
Folder   3
Technical notes, fabric samples, 1952
Box   19
Folder   4
Sketches
Box   20
Folder   8
Hanging plots
Pardon Our French
Note: Broadway, 1950
Box   9
Folder   4
Clippings, 1950
Box   9
Folder   5
Photographs of unidentified productions
Box   9
Folder   6
Published sketches (Theatre Arts), 1934
Radio City Music Hall
General
Box   9
Folder   7
Miscellaneous clippings and sketches
Box   9
Folder   8
Notes
Box   9
Folder   9
Set photographs, miscellaneous
“Aces High,” 1936
Box   21
Folder   1
Sketches
“Angles Show,” 1935
Box   21
Folder   2
Sketches
Box   9
Folder   10
Photographs
“The Big Show”
Box   21
Folder   3
Sketches (may not be RCMH)
“The Big Time”
Box   9
Folder   11
Typed scenario by AJ, 1959
“Black and White Show,” 1936
Box   21
Folder   4
Sketches
Box   9
Folder   12
Photographs
“Bonanza”
Box   9
Folder   13
Typed notes, program, and technical information, 1959
Box   21
Folder   5
Blueprints
Christmas shows, 1953, 1955
Box   9
Folder   14
Notes, technical information, program, 1953, 1956
Sketches and blueprints
Box   21
Folder   6
1953
Box   22
Folder   1
1956
Easter show
Box   9
Folder   15
Notes, clippings, 1967
Box   22
Folder   2
Blueprint
“Gold Rush Show,” 1935
Box   9
Folder   16
Photograph
Box   22
Folder   3
Sketch
“Greenwich Village,” 1959
Box   9
Folder   17-18
Typed scenario by AJ
Box   9
Folder   17-18
Notes, color chart
Box   9
Folder   17-18
Picture research clippings
Box   22
Folder   4
Sketches
“Manhattan,” 1936
Box   9
Folder   19
Photographs
Box   22
Folder   5
Sketches
“Nome Street”
Box   22
Folder   6
Blueprints and sketches
“Sawdust and Spangles”
Box   9
Folder   20
Typed scenario by AJ, handwritten notes, clippings, 1959
Box   23
Folder   1
Sketches
“Sea Breezes”
Box   9
Folder   21
Typed scenario by AJ, notes, 1959
Revenge With Music
Note: New Amsterdam, 1934
Box   9
Folder   22
Playbills and clippings, 1934
Box   19
Folder   5
Sketches
Sawdust and Spangles (proposed television program)
Box   9
Folder   23
Typed scenario by G.R. Glenn, 1960
Box   9
Folder   24
Notes and clippings, 1961-1967
Showboat
Note: St. Louis Opera, 1952, and Jones Beach, 1956
Box   23
Folder   2
Blueprints, sketches, and light plots
Box   9
Folder   25
Clippings, 1957
Box   10
Folder   1
Typed script, 1952
Box   10
Folder   2
Program, 1952
Box   10
Folder   3
Photographs, 1952
Box   10
Folder   4
Notes, clippings, and playbill, 1956
Box   10
Folder   5
Contract, seating charts, address list, stills, programs, playbills, gelatin samples, undated
Box   10
Folder   6
Typed script, prop list, light plots, 1957
Shuffle Along
Note: Broadway, 1952
Box   10
Folder   7
Playbill, technical notes, financial statement, and agreement, 1952
Box   23
Folder   3
Blueprints of hanging plans
Sing Out Sweet Land
Note: International, 1944
Box   19
Folder   6
Sketches
Starlight Theatre-Kansas City
Box   10
Folder   8
Photographs for several productions
Stockade
Note: President, 1954
Box   10
Folder   9
Notes, 1954
Box   23
Folder   4
Blueprint
Three's A Crowd
Note: Selwyn, 1930
Box   10
Folder   10
Programs, clippings, 1930
“Turn Of The Century”
Note: Diamond Horseshoe nightclub
Box   10
Folder   11
Program, sheet music, clippings, 1938
Box   23
Folder   5
Unidentified sketches and plans
Union Pacific (ballet)
Box   10
Folder   12
Clippings, 1934
Waltzes From Vienna
Note: Alhambra, London, 1931
Box   10
Folder   13
Program and clippings, 1931
Washington, D.C. Festival, miscellaneous productions
Box   10
Folder   14
Programs, clippings, 1953
What Did We Do Wrong?
Note: Helen Hayes, 1967
Box   10
Folder   15
Playbills, production notes, clippings
Box   19
Folder   7
Sketches
Box   23
Folder   6
Blueprints and large sketches
You Never Know
Note: Winter Garden, 1938
Box   10
Folder   16
Program, playbills, sheet music and clippings
You Only Twinkle Once, 1946
Box   19
Folder   8
Sketch
The Ziegfeld Follies
Note: Winter Garden, 1934
Box   10
Folder   17
Playbills, clippings, 1934