Robert Edward Gard Papers, 1946-1976

Container Title
U.S. Mss 27AN
Part 1 (U.S. Mss 27AN, Audio 505A/1-32, 39-78): Original Collection, 1929-1969
Physical Description: 46.4 cubic feet (72 archives boxes, 59 volumes, and 2 packages), 54 audio recordings (1/4-inch reel), 2 audio recordings (cassette), 16 audio recordings (disc) 
Scope and Content Note

The Original Collection comprises everything received in the Archives through 1969. Its contents date 1929-1969 and primarily document the Kerrs' early lives and the wide range of personal and professional interests of these two writers. This part of the collection is divided into several series: General Correspondence; Personal and Miscellaneous Papers; Financial and Legal Correspondence; Theater; Criticism; Lectures; Television; Jean Kerr's Book and Articles; Miscellaneous; and Recordings. Generally, the material within each series is organized chronologically; the one exception is the television series, which has been arranged alphabetically by program title.

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE (Boxes 1-22) spans the years 1929 to 1969 and is arranged chronologically. (Correspondence that relates to a particular play or book has been placed with that specific title.) Often, especially in the later correspondence, carbon copies of letters sent by the Kerrs are present, as well as letters received by them. Researchers will find both quantity and diversity in this series: there are lecture requests, fan mail, family correspondence, and letters from professional associates from the Kerrs. There are letters from many notable correspondents.

PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS (Boxes 22-26) consists of passports, college notes, awards, photographs, and appointment books.

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE (Boxes 26 and 27) contains contracts, bank statements, financial statements. Included are reports from Brandt and Brandt, Collins Productions, the Kerrs' publishers, and World Theater.

The series THEATER (Boxes 28-40 and Volumes 1-25) is divided into three categories, according to the location of the Kerrs' productions: the early plays, 1932-1939, of the Kerrs' high school and college years; the plays produced at Catholic University, 1939-1948; and New York and other later productions, 1942-1964. In the last category are included the plays first produced at Catholic University and then taken to New York.

Materials for individual plays vary and may consist of correspondence, scripts, musical scores, contracts, photographs, playbills, production notes, clippings, and financial papers. Undated plays are listed alphabetically by title at the end of the early plays. Included among the play manuscripts are Sing Out Sweet Land, King of Hearts, Goldilocks, Mary, Mary, and Poor Richard.

Within the series CRITICISM (Boxes 40-64, and Volumes 26-30) is the documentation--correspondence, notes, contracts, drafts and revisions, financial statements, galley proofs--of this most incisive part of Walter Kerr's career. The series begins with Kerr's books: Staging the Great Plays, How Not to Write a Play, Criticism and Censorship, Pieces at Eight, The Decline of Pleasure, Tragedy and Comedy, and Thirty Plays Hath November. Also included here are books for which Kerr wrote an essay or an introduction. Following the books are articles written for journals. Of interest to most researchers will be the play reviews written for Commonweal, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Times; these begin in Box 56, Folder 7 and continue through Box 64, Folder 2, and are bound in Volumes 29 and 30.

LECTURES (Boxes 65 and 66) contain the notes Kerr used while a professor at Catholic University, as well as his research files and notes used for lectures given throughout the country.

The final series that deals with Walter Kerr's career is TELEVISION (Boxes 67 and 68 and Volumes 31-33). These materials, primarily scripts, are organized alphabetically by series title. Scripts for individual episodes within the series are arranged chronologically; undated and unidentified scripts are placed at the end of this series. Included here are scripts and comments for Profiles in Courage and Omnibus, for which Kerr served as drama consultant.

Boxes 68 and 69 contain JEAN KERR'S BOOK AND ARTICLES; these drafts are arranged chronologically. For Please Don't Eat the Daisies, only correspondence and financial and legal information are available. The Snake Has All the Lines and Penny Candy are collections of articles. Miscellaneous articles by Mrs. Kerr are at the end of this series.

MISCELLANEOUS (Boxes 70-72 and Volumes 34-59) consists of books sent to the Kerrs, high school and college publications, scrapbooks, and photographs. Also here is a manuscript of special interest--a stenographic recording of private sessions with the Group Theater, 1939; this transcript was given to Walter Kerr. A small group of interviews with the Kerrs is also included here.

AUDIO RECORDINGS consists of 16 tape recordings and 16 disc recordings that supplement the musical scores, interviews, and discussions provided earlier in the collection.

Series: General correspondence
Box   1
  Folder   1
1929 June-1938 December
Box   1
  Folder   2
1939 January-1940 December
Box   1
  Folder   3
1941 January-December
Box   1
  Folder   4
1942 January-December
Box   2
  Folder   1
1943 January-December
Box   2
  Folder   2
1944 January-December
Box   2
  Folder   3
1945 January-1946 December
Box   2
  Folder   4
1947 January-1948 December
Box   2
  Folder   5
1949 January-December
Box   2
  Folder   6
1950 January-December
Box   2
  Folder   7
1951 January-September
Box   3
  Folder   1
1951 October-December
Box   3
  Folder   2
1952 January-May
Box   3
  Folder   3
1952 June-December
Box   3
  Folder   4
1953 January-May
Box   3
  Folder   5
1953 June-December
Box   3
  Folder   6
1954 January-July
Box   3
  Folder   7
1954 August-December
Box   3
  Folder   8
1955 January-April
Box   4
  Folder   1
1955 May-July
Box   4
  Folder   2
1955 August-December
Box   4
  Folder   3
1956 January-June
Box   4
  Folder   4
1956 July-December
Box   4
  Folder   5
1957 January-May
Box   5
  Folder   1
1957 June-December
Box   5
  Folder   2
1958 January-December
Box   5
  Folder   3
1959 January-December
Box   5
  Folder   4
1960 January-December
Box   5
  Folder   5
1961 January-September
Box   5
  Folder   6
1961 October-December
Box   6
  Folder   1
1962 January-March
Box   6
  Folder   2
1962 April-June
Box   6
  Folder   3
1962 July-October
Box   6
  Folder   4
1962 November-December
Box   6
  Folder   5
1963 January-February
Box   6
  Folder   6
1963 March-May
Box   7
  Folder   1
1963 June-July
Box   7
  Folder   2
1963 August-September
Box   7
  Folder   3
1963 October
Box   7
  Folder   4
1963 November
Box   7
  Folder   5
1963 December
Box   7
  Folder   6
1963
Box   8
  Folder   1
1963-1964
Box   8
  Folder   2
1964 January
Box   8
  Folder   3
1964 February
Box   8
  Folder   4
1964 March
Box   8
  Folder   5
1964 April
Box   8
  Folder   6
1964 May
Box   9
  Folder   1
1964 June
Box   9
  Folder   2
1964 July
Box   9
  Folder   3
1964 August
Box   9
  Folder   4
1964 September
Box   9
  Folder   5
1964 October
Box   9
  Folder   6
1964 November
Box   10
  Folder   1
1964 December
Box   10
  Folder   2-3
1964
Box   10
  Folder   4
1965 January
Box   10
  Folder   5
1965 February
Box   10
  Folder   6
1965 March
Box   11
  Folder   1
1965 April
Box   11
  Folder   2
1965 May
Box   11
  Folder   3
1965 June
Box   11
  Folder   4
1965 July-August
Box   11
  Folder   5
1965 September
Box   11
  Folder   6
1965 October
Box   12
  Folder   1
1965 November
Box   12
  Folder   2
1965 December
Box   12
  Folder   3
1965
Box   12
  Folder   4
1966 January
Box   12
  Folder   5
1966 February
Box   12
  Folder   6
1966 March
Box   13
  Folder   1
1966 April-May
Box   13
  Folder   2
1966 June-July
Box   13
  Folder   3
1966 August
Box   13
  Folder   4-5
1966 September
Box   13
  Folder   6
1966 October
Box   14
  Folder   1
1966 October
Box   14
  Folder   2-3
1966 November
Box   14
  Folder   4
1966 December
Box   14
  Folder   5-6
1966
Box   15
  Folder   1-2
1967 January
Box   15
  Folder   3-4
1967 February
Box   15
  Folder   5-6
1967 March
Box   16
  Folder   1-2
1967 April
Box   16
  Folder   3-4
1967 May
Box   16
  Folder   5-6
1967 June
Box   16
  Folder   7-8
1967 July
Box   17
  Folder   1
1967 August
Box   17
  Folder   2
1967 September
Box   17
  Folder   3-4
1967 October
Box   17
  Folder   5
1967 November
Box   17
  Folder   6
1967 December
Box   17
  Folder   7
1967
Box   18
  Folder   1
1968 January
Box   18
  Folder   2
1968 February
Box   18
  Folder   3
1968 March
Box   18
  Folder   4
1968 April
Box   18
  Folder   5
1968 May
Box   18
  Folder   6
1968 June
Box   19
  Folder   1
1968 July
Box   19
  Folder   2
1968 August
Box   19
  Folder   3
1968 September
Box   19
  Folder   4
1968 October
Box   19
  Folder   5
1968 November
Box   19
  Folder   6
1968 December
Box   19
  Folder   7
1968
Box   20
  Folder   1
1969 January
Box   20
  Folder   2
1969 February
Box   20
  Folder   3
1969 February
Box   20
  Folder   4
1969 March
Box   20
  Folder   5
1969 April
Box   20
  Folder   6
1969 May
Box   21
  Folder   1
1969 June 21
Box   21
  Folder   2
1969 July
Box   21
  Folder   3
1969 August-December
Box   21
  Folder   4
1969
Box   21
  Folder   5-6
undated
Box   22
  Folder   1-2
undated (continued)
Series: Personal and miscellaneous papers
Package   2
Diplomas
Scope and Content Note: Marywood Seminary, St. Mary's College of the Woods, St. Mary's School, Northwestern University
Package   2
Honorary degrees
Scope and Content Note: St. Mary's College, La Salle College
Box   22
  Folder   3
Passport, induction notice, insurance forms, teaching appointments
Box   22
  Folder   4
Poems, written by Walter Kerr while in the third grade
Box   22
  Folder   5
College notes, essays, poems, fragments of early plays and sketches and short stories / by Jean Kerr
Box   22
  Folder   6
Personal clippings-birth and wedding announcements
Box   22
  Folder   7
Moss Hart: pamphlet / poems by Phyllis McGinley
Box   23
  Folder   1
Program of reopening of Ford's Theatre College playbills of Jean Kerr, 1968
Awards
Box   23
  Folder   2
Walter Kerr-St. George High School diploma; Scholarship honors and Master of Arts Degree from Northwestern University; Graduation programs, 1931, 1935, 1938, 1937
Box   23
  Folder   3
Jean Kerr-Marywood College graduation program and Department of Public Instruction Certificate, 1939, 1943
Box   23
  Folder   4
Walter Kerr-Northwestern University Alumni Association Award of Merit-award and correspondence, 1948 June 12
Box   23
  Folder   5
Walter Kerr-Doctor of Laws Degree St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 1956
Box   23
  Folder   6
Walter Kerr-Sylvania Television Award for Omnibus, 1957
Package   1
Jean Kerr-Spirit of Achievement Award presented on by the Woman's Division of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1958 March 24
Box   23
  Folder   7
Jean and Walter Kerr-American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers membership certificates 1959
Box   23
  Folder   8
Jean Kerr-Writer's Guild of America, Nomination of Writing Achievement for Please Don't Eat the Daisies 1960
Box   23
  Folder   9
Walter Kerr-David Merrick Award for Criticism correspondence, 1962 May
Box   23
  Folder   10
Jean and Walter Kerr-Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Northwestern University program and correspondence, 1962 June 16
Box   23
  Folder   11
Walter Kerr-Herald Tribune certificate of appreciation upon receiving the George Jean Nathan Drama Criticism Award for The Theatre in Spite of Itself correspondence, 1964 January 22
Box   23
  Folder   12
Walter and Jean Kerr-Honorary Doctor of Letters Degrees, Fordham University correspondence and program 1965 June 19
Box   23
  Folder   13
Walter Kerr-Dineen Award of the National Theatre Conference correspondence and Herald Tribune Certificate, 1965 August 26
Box   23
  Folder   14
Walter Kerr-Applause Award from the Northwestern University Club of New York, miscellaneous awards 1966 April 22
Box   23
  Folder   15
Walter Kerr-award for outstanding service in journalism from Kappa Tau Alpha of New York University, 1966 May 20
Package   1
Oversize item
Box   23
  Folder   16
Walter and Jean Kerr-Catholic Action Medals presented by St. Bonaventure University, 1966 December
Box   23
  Folder   17
Walter Kerr-Citation For Distinguished Service to the Theatre, The American Educational Theatre Association 1967 August
Box   24
  Folder   1
Phyllis McGinley-award presented by the Catholic Book Club, 1967 November 10
Box   24
  Folder   2
Walter Kerr-Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, University of Notre Dame correspondence and award 1968 June 21
Box   24
  Folder   3
Walter Kerr-Five Towns Music and Art Foundation, award of distinction program 1969 May 6
Package   1
Oversize item
Photographs
Box   24
  Folder   4-5
Walter Kerr
Box   24
  Folder   6
Jean Kerr
Box   24
  Folder   7-8
Kerr family
Box   25
  Folder   1
Miscellaneous
Appointment Books
Box   25
1952-1953, 1955, 1957-1962
Box   26
1964-1966
Series: Financial and legal correspondence
Box   26
  Folder   1
Brandt and Brandt, 1945-1969
Financial statements-personal and Collins Productions Inc.
Box   26
  Folder   2
1961 August-December
Box   26
  Folder   3
1962 January-April
Box   27
  Folder   1
1962 May-September
Box   27
  Folder   2
Sheed & Ward Inc., Publishers, financial reports 1962-1967
Box   27
  Folder   3
Weissberger & Frosch, Counselors at Law 1963-1966
Box   27
  Folder   4
World Theatre, financial statements 1961
Box   27
  Folder   5
Financial statements-miscellaneous
Box   27
  Folder   6
Legal-miscellaneous contracts
Series: Theater
Early Plays, 1932-1939
Box   28
  Folder   1
Ideas for shows: early sketches, notes, and lyrics by Jean and Walter Kerr
Volume   3
Sketches
Photographs
Box   28
  Folder   2
Plays produced at St. George High School
Box   28
  Folder   3
Plays produced at Marywood College
Box   28
  Folder   4
Plays produced at Northwestern University
No Reason at All, 1932
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr and Gilbert Nevius, produced at St. George High School, 1933
Volume   1
Script
St. George Minstrel Show, 1933
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr and Gilbert Nevius, produced at St. George High School
Volume   3
Script
A Most Extraordinary Boy, 1934
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr, suggested by Hans Christian Anderson's "Story of My Life"
Box   28
  Folder   5
Correspondence, copyright and commentary on play 1939
Volume   2
Original script, treatments, staging directions
Denison's Variety Revue by Walter Kerr, 1935
Box   28
  Folder   6
Correspondence and contracts, 1934-1935
Volume   1
Sketches
Murder in Reverse / by Walter Kerr, 1935
Box   28
  Folder   7
Correspondence, 1934
Volume   1
Script
Murder to Music / by Walter Kerr, 1935
Box   28
  Folder   7
Correspondence, 1936
Volume   1
Script
Movie Minstrel / by Walter Kerr, 1936
Box   28
  Folder   8
Contracts, financial information 1936-1938
Murder in Grey / by Walter Kerr, 1936
Volume   3
Script
Murder with Impunity / by Walter Kerr, 1936
Box   28
  Folder   9
Correspondence, 1936
Volume   3
Script
I'll Take Vanilla / by Walter Kerr, 1936
Box   28
  Folder   10
Contract, 1936
Volume   3
Script
Mystery Minstrel / by Walter Kerr, 1937
Box   28
  Folder   10
Correspondence, 1937
Don't Look Now, 1937 March
Scope and Content Note: Show at Northwestern University, script and lyrics by Walter Kerr and Charles Nelson
Volume   1
Script, lyrics
Volume   56
Musical score
Box   28
  Folder   11
Lyrics, financial information
Angels on Eggshells, 1937
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr, Northwestern University
Box   28
  Folder   12
Correspondence, 1938
Volume   3
Script
Death and Deluge / by Walter Kerr, 1937
Volume   3
Script
A Murderous Marriage / by Walter Kerr, 1937
Volume   3
Script
Imps in Industry, 1937, 1939 June 10
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr; renamed Inside-Out Family and produced by Jack and Jill Players1939 June 10, Chicago, Illinois
Box   28
  Folder   13
Correspondence commentary, 1937-1939
Volume   5
Script
Rip Van Winkle, 1937
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Washington Irving by Walter Kerr; produced at Northwestern University, scenes used in 1943 December at Catholic University
Box   28
  Folder   14
Correspondence, contract 1936-1937
Volume   56
Article by Walter Kerr
The Thief Is a Knight by Walter Kerr, 1938
Box   28
  Folder   15
Correspondence, contract 1938-1939
Volume   56
Script
Christopher over Chaos, 1938 July
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr; submitted as his M.A. thesis, Northwestern University
Box   28
  Folder   16
Correspondence, 1938-1941
Volume   4
Script, 1938 July
The Vicar of Wakefield, 1938
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Oliver Goldsmith by Walter Kerr; produced, 1938, at Northwestern University
Box   28
  Folder   17
Correspondence, contract 1938
Christmas Incorporated by Walter Kerr, 1939
Box   28
  Folder   18
Correspondence, contracts 1937-1939
Volume   3
Script
Without Jury / by Walter Kerr, 1939
Box   28
  Folder   19
Correspondence, 1940, script
Box   28
  Folder   20
Script
Early Plays, undated
American Ghoulash / by Walter Kerr
Volume   3
Script
"The American Musical Review"
Volume   1
Script
Art and Prudence
Volume   6
Script
The Baldwin Gang / by Walter Kerr
Volume   13
Notes
Change of the Moon / by Walter Kerr
Volume   19
Script
The Constitution-Two Epochs / by Walter Kerr
Volume   3
Script
The Country on Her Hands by Walter Kerr
Volume   3
Script
If Wishes Were Babies / by Walter Kerr
Volume   5
Script
The Last Aqueduct / by Walter Kerr
Box   28
  Folder   21
Correspondence, 1944
Volume   5
Script
Volume   19
Script
Minute Waltz / by Jean Kerr
Volume   25
Two scripts
School for Wives
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Moliere by Walter Kerr
Volume   13
Script
Box   32
Script for television
Teapot Tempest / by Walter Kerr
Volume   1
Script
Twelfth Night
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Shakespeare by Walter Kerr
Volume   1
Script
Two Women and a Boy / by Walter Kerr
Volume   3
Script
Volume   3
Two untitled plays by Walter Kerr
Volume   5
Articles
Plays Produced at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. 1939-1948
Hyacinth On Wheels, 1939 February 19
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   28
  Folder   22
Correspondence production photographs, contract, financial information 1938-1947
Coriolanus, 1939 May 5
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Shakespeare by Walter Kerr; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   28
  Folder   23
Correspondence; production photographs, 1939-1940
Volume   5
Script
The Comedian, 1939 July
Scope and Content Note: By Henri Gheon; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   28
  Folder   24
Photographs
Yankee Doodle Boy, 1939 December 16, 1940 April 26
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr and Leo Brady
Box   29
  Folder   1
Correspondence; production photographs, 1939-1944
Volume   5
Script
Murder in the Cathedral, 1940 March 24
Scope and Content Note: By T.S. Eliot; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   2
Photographs
The Miser, 1940 May 26, July 10
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Moliere by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   3
Correspondence; photographs; contracts; financial information, 1941-1961
Note: See also Box 32.
Calidore, 1940 July 17; 1941 May 21
Scope and Content Note: By Leo Brady; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   4
Photographs
My Heart's in the Highlands, 1949 August 7
Scope and Content Note: By William Saroyan; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   5
Photographs
She Stoops to Conquer, 1940 November 6; 1941 July 16
Scope and Content Note: By Oliver Goldsmith; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   6
Photographs
Storm, 1940 December 11
Scope and Content Note: By Edith Mirick
Box   29
  Folder   7
Photographs
The Comedy of Errors, 1941 January 15 and July 9
Scope and Content Note: By William Shakespeare; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   8
Correspondence, photographs
God's Stage, 1941 February 27
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   9
Correspondence; photographs, 1941-1946
Volume   5
Script
Cook Book, 1941 April 23
Scope and Content Note: By Leo Brady and Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   10
Correspondence; photographs, 1941
Volume   5
Script
Hotel Universe, 1941 August 4
Scope and Content Note: By Philip Barry; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   11
Photographs
Jim Dandy, 1941 October 29; 1942 July 15
Scope and Content Note: By William Saroyan; directed by Alan Schneider
Box   29
  Folder   12
Photographs
The Knight of the Burning Pestle, 1941 December 10
Scope and Content Note: By Beaumont and Fletcher; directed by Walter Kerr
Volume   12
Script
Box   29
  Folder   13
Photographs
Brighton Rock, 1942 February 4
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Graham Greene by Leo Brady and Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   14
Correspondence; clippings, photographs 1942-1957
Volume   7
Script
Athaliah, 1942 March 17
Scope and Content Note: By Racine; directed by Alan Schneider
Box   29
  volume 15
Photographs
Magic, 1942 July 29
Scope and Content Note: By Gilbert K. Chesterton; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   16
Photographs
Life Is a Dream, 1942 December 9
Scope and Content Note: By Calderon; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   17
Photographs
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 1943 February 24
Scope and Content Note: By Phillip Massinger; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   29
  Folder   18
Photographs
The King Is Dead, 1943 March 31 and July 5
Scope and Content Note: By Victoria Kuhn, directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   1
Photographs
Eddie the First, 1943 May 5
Scope and Content Note: By Art Mullen and Denny Madden
Box   30
  Folder   2
Correspondence; photographs, 1941
Stranger at the Gate, 1943 July 22
Scope and Content Note: By Patricia Treadwell; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   3
Correspondence; photographs, 1943-1946
Secret Service, 1944 February 9
Scope and Content Note: By William Gillette; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   4
Photographs
Tom Thumb the Great, 1945 January 14
Scope and Content Note: By Henry Fielding; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   5
Photographs
Peer Gynt, 1945 April 1
Scope and Content Note: By Ibsen; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   6
Photographs
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1945 August 5
Scope and Content Note: By Oscar Wilde; directed by Alan Schneider
Box   30
  Folder   7
Photographs
The Liar, 1945 November 2
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Goldoni by Edward Eager and Alfred Drake; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   8
Photographs
That's Where the Money Goes, 1946 May 10
Scope and Content Note: By James Finley, Jean Kerr and Joan O'Bryne; directed by Alan Schneider
Volume   19
Sketches by Jean Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   9
Clippings, program, sketch
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, 1946 July 22
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough by Jean Kerr; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   10
Correspondence; clippings; playbill, 1946-1966
Box   30
  Folder   11
Photographs
Box   30
  Folder   12
Contracts, financial information 1946-1969
The Ascent of F6, 1946 October 25
Scope and Content Note: By W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   30
  Folder   13
Correspondence; photographs, 1946
Much Ado About Nothing, 1947 January 17; 1947 October
Scope and Content Note: By William Shakespeare; directed by Walter Kerr
Volume   12
Script
Box   30
  Folder   14
Photographs
Alley Moon, 1948 May 2
Scope and Content Note: By Walter Kerr; directed by Walter Kerr
Volume   14
Script
Box   30
  Folder   15
Photographs, copyright
The Birds, 1948 December 3
Scope and Content Note: Adaptation from Aristophanes by Walter Kerr; directed by Walter Kerr
Box   31
  Folder   1
Correspondence, 1948-1969
Box   31
  Folder   2
Photographs
Box   31
  Folder   3
Contracts, financial information 1952-1968
Musical score
Note: See Audio recordings series.
Box   31
  Folder   4
Miscellaneous Catholic University production photographs
New York and Regional Productions, 1942-1964
Count Me In (New York, 1942 October 8
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Shubert, Olsen and Johnson in association with Krakeur and Schmidlapp

Director: Robert Ross

Writer: Walter Kerr and Leo Brady

Music: Ann Ronell

Cast: Charles Butterworth, Luella Gear, June Preisser, Mary Healy, Hal Leroy

Box   31
  Folder   5
Correspondence, 1942-1953
Volume   8
Script, 1942 August 7
Box   31
  Folder   6
Photographs, Catholic University 1942 May 10
Box   31
  Folder   7
Playbill, notes
Box   31
  Folder   8
Clippings
Box   31
  Folder   9
Contracts; financial information; box office statements, 1942-1944
Stardust (Philadelphia, 1943 September 9
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Michael Myerberg

Director: Herb Polesie

Writer: Walter Kerr

Cast: Rose King, Gloria Hallward, George Ives, Susan Douglas, Chick Chandler

Box   31
  Folder   10
Correspondence; clippings; Catholic University poster, 1940-1966
Volume   6
Original script as played at Catholic University; contains revisions for Philadelphia
Volume   6
Script
Box   31
  Folder   11
Contracts, 1942-1946
Box   31
  Folder   12
Photographs of Catholic University productions
Box   31
  Folder   13
Financial statements, 1942-1962
Sing Out Sweet Land (New York, 1944 December 27
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: Walter Kerr

Music: Walter Kerr, with special music by Elie Siegmeister

Cast: Burl Ives, George Cassidy, Peggy Campbell, Ethel Mann, Charles Hart

Box   31
  Folder   14
Correspondence, 1953-1968
Volume   9
Original script-as played at Catholic University
Volume   9
Script, 1944 October
Volume   9
Script material
Volume   9
Script, 1944 December
Volume   10
Musical score
Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Box   32
  Folder   1
Contracts, 1944-1953
Box   32
  Folder   2
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   32
  Folder   3
Playbills, photographs
Box   32
  Folder   4
Production notes and manuscript suggestions
Volume   19
Plan for television program
Box   32
  Folder   5
Financial and legal information, 1944-1968
Lien under the Sky, 1945
Scope and Content Note: By Jean Kerr (unproduced)
Volume   11
Script
The Song of Bernadette (New York, 1946 March 26
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Victor Payne-Jennings and Frank McCoy

Director: Walter Kerr

Script: Jean and Walter Kerr, adapted from the novel by Franz Werfel

Cast: Jean Mann, Elizabeth Ross, Pamela Rivers, Christina Soulias

Box   32
  Folder   6
Correspondence, 1943-1966
Box   32
  Folder   7
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   32
  Folder   8
Clippings, Boston poster, Commentary by Franz Werfel, tryout schedule
Box   32
  Folder   9
Contract, financial statements 1943-1969
All Gaul Is Divided (New York, 1947 October 19
Scope and Content Note

Producer: John F. Golden and John Michael Lambur

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: John I. McGiver

Cast: Doris Dowling, William Terry, Hilda Vaughn, Edward Andrews

Volume   13
Script
Box   32
  Folder   10
Photographs of Catholic University production, financial information, correspondence
Jenny Kissed Me (New York, 1948 December 23
Scope and Content Note

Producer: James Russo, Michael Ellis, Alexander Cohen, in association with Clarence Shapiro

Director: James Russo

Writer: Jean Kerr

Cast: Leo G. Carroll, Alan Baxter, Jean Jordan, Bonnie Alden, Francis Bavier

Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Box   32
  Folder   11
Correspondence, 1947-1956
Volume   15
Script as played at Catholic University
Volume   15
Script
Box   32
  Folder   12
Contracts, 1948-1949
Box   32
  Folder   13
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   33
  Folder   1
Clippings, programs
Box   33
  Folder   2
Financial and legal information, 1948-1965
Touch and Go (New York, 1949 October 13
Scope and Content Note

Producer: George Abbott

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: Jean and Walter Kerr

Music: Jay Gorney

Lyrics: Jean and Walter Kerr

Cast: Kyle MacDonnell, Peggy Cass, Louis Nye, Dorothy Scott, Jonathan Lucas

Box   33
  Folder   3
Correspondence, 1949-1955
Volume   16
Script (titled Thank You, Just Looking) as played at Catholic University
Volume   16
Sketches and lyrics
Volume   16
Script and lyrics, 1949 September
Volume   16
Script; program; plots, 1949 October
Volume   16
Script fragments
Box   33
  Folder   4
Sketch
Volume   17
Musical scores
Box   33
  Folder   5
Musical scores and arrangements
Box   33
  Folder   6
Contracts, 1949
Box   33
  Folder   7
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   33
  Folder   8
Photographs of New York and London productions
Box   33
  Folder   9
Clippings, programs
Box   33
  Folder   10
Financial statements, 1949-1965
Happy Ending, 1950
Scope and Content Note: By Jean and Walter Kerr (unproduced)
Volume   18
Script and lyrics
Box   33
  Folder   11
Copyright form
John Murray Anderson's Almanac (New York, 1953 December 10
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Michael Grace, Stanley Gilkey, Harry Rigby

Director: John Murray Anderson

Writer: Jean Kerr, Summer Locke Elliot, Arthur Macrae, Herbert Farjeon, Lauri Wylie

Music: Michael Grace, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy, Henry Sullivan, John Rox and Bart Howard

Cast: Polly Bergen, Harry Belafonte, Orson Bean, James Jewell

Box   33
  Folder   12
Correspondence; clippings, 1951-1954
Volume   19
Sketches by Jean Kerr
Box   33
  Folder   13
Contracts, financial information 1953-1954
King of Hearts (New York, 1954 April 1
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Elaine Perry

Director: Walter Kerr

Script: Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke

Cast: Donald Cook, Jackie Cooper, Rex Thompson, Hilda Haynes, Cloris Leachman

Box   33
  Folder   14
Correspondence; cast list, 1954-1966
Volume   20
Script (titled Comic Strip)
Volume   21
Script, notes
Volume   21
Script, 1957
Volume   21
Three Scripts
Box   34
  Folder   1
Contracts, 1951-1955
Box   34
  Folder   2
Photographs
Box   34
  Folder   3
Financial statements, 1951-1966
The Last Resorts, 1956
Scope and Content Note: By Jean Kerr (unproduced)
Box   34
  Folder   4
Correspondence, 1956-1957
Volume   22
Three Scripts
Box   34
  Folder   5
Script
Goldilocks (New York, 1958 October 11
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Robert Whitehead

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: Jean and Walter Kerr

Music: Leroy Anderson

Lyrics: Jean and Walter Kerr, Joan Ford

Cast: Don Ameche, Elaine Stritch, Russell Nype, Pat Stanley

Box   34
  Folder   6
Correspondence, 1954-1968
Volume   23
Three Scripts
Volume   23
Script fragments
Volume   13
Notes, lyrics
Volume   23
Script, 1957 February 15
Box   34
  Folder   7
Musical scores and arrangements
Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Box   34
  Folder   8
Contracts, 1954-1958
Box   34
  Folder   9
Photographs
Box   34
  Folder   10
Financial statements, 1954-1968
Mary, Mary (New York 1961 March 8
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Roger L. Stevens in association with Lyn Austin and Victor Samrock

Director: Joseph Anthony

Writer: Jean Kerr

Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Barry Nelson, Michael Rennie

Box   35
  Folder   1
Correspondence, 1960-1969
Volume   24
Script
Volume   24
Three Scripts, 1960
Volume   24
Notes, script fragments
Box   35
  Folder   2
Script
Box   35
  Folder   3
Script, 1963
Box   35
  Folder   4
Proofs of Samuel French Acting Edition, 1963
Box   35
  Folder   5
Script from Mexican production
Script, motion picture version 1963 February 6
Box   35
  Folder   7
Prop list
Box   35
  Folder   8
Contracts, 1960-1962
Box   36
  Folder   1
Photographs, New York production and motion pictures
Box   36
  Folder   2
Programs and production posters
Financial and legal information
Box   36
  Folder   3
1960-1961
Box   36
  Folder   4
1962
Box   36
  Folder   5
1963
Box   36
  Folder   6
1964-1965
Box   36
  Folder   7
1965-1967
Box   37
  Folder   1
Financial statements, 1968-1969
Poor Richard (New York, 1964 December 2
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Stevens Productions Inc., in association with Lyn Austin and Victor Samrock

Director: Peter Wood

Writer: Jean Kerr

Cast: Alan Bates, Gene Hackman, Joan Alexander, Joanna Pettet, Colgate Salsbury

Box   37
  Folder   2
Correspondence, 1963-1968
Box   37
  Folder   3
Script
Box   37
  Folder   4
Script fragments
Box   37
  Folder   5
Script
Box   37
  Folder   6
Script
Box   37
  Folder   7
Script
Box   37
  Folder   8
Script
Box   37
  Folder   9
Script, 1964 October 3
Box   38
  Folder   1
Script
Box   38
  Folder   2
Script revisions
Box   38
  Folder   3
Script
Box   38
  Folder   4
Script (New York)
Box   38
  Folder   5
Script (Boston)
Box   38
  Folder   6
Script
Box   38
  Folder   7
Script revisions
Box   38
  Folder   8
Script, 1965
Box   38
  Folder   9
Script
Box   39
  Folder   1
Galley proofs, 1965
Box   39
  Folder   2
Script, published copy 1965
Box   39
  Folder   3
Two Scripts, published copies 1965
Box   39
  Folder   4
Galley proofs
Box   39
  Folder   5
Contracts, 1964-1965
Box   39
  Folder   6
Photographs
Box   39
  Folder   7
Notes
Box   39
  Folder   8
Posters
Box   40
  Folder   1
Financial statements, 1963-1969
Series: Criticism
Books
Staging the Great Plays by Walter Kerr, 1952
Box   40
  Folder   2
Correspondence; reader's report, 1952
Box   40
  Folder   3
Chapters on Greek tragedy and Elizabethan drama
Volume   26
Outline, chapters on Greek tragedy and Elizabethan drama
How Not To Write a Play by Walter Kerr, 1955
Box   40
  Folder   4
Correspondence, 1953-1968
Volume   27
First draft
Volume   27
Revisions
Box   40
  Folder   5
Review, publisher's report
Box   40
  Folder   6
Arabic version
Box   40
  Folder   7
Contracts; financial statements, 1952-1955, 1953-1969
Criticism and Censorship / by Walter Kerr, 1957
Box   40
  Folder   8
Correspondence, 1955-1963
Pieces at Eight / by Walter Kerr, 1957
Box   40
  Folder   9
Correspondence; publisher's report, 1957-1968
Box   40
  Folder   10
Contracts, financial information 1955-1968
The Decline of Pleasure by Walter Kerr, 1962
Box   41
  Folder   1
Correspondence, 1959-1969
Volume   28
First draft
Volume   28
Revisions, notes, outline
Box   41
  Folder   2
Revisions
Box   41
  Folder   3-4
Second draft
Box   41
  Folder   5
Third draft
Box   42
  Folder   1-5
Third draft
Box   43
  Folder   1-2
Final draft
Box   43
  Folder   3
Reviews
Box   43
  Folder   4
Contracts; financial statements, 1959, 1961-1969
The Theater in Spite of Itself / by Walter Kerr, 1963
Box   43
  Folder   5
Correspondence, 1963-1965
First draft
Box   43
  Folder   6
Chapters 1-6
Box   43
  Folder   7
Chapters 7-9
Box   43
  Folder   8
Chapters 10-12
Second draft
Box   44
  Folder   1
pp. 1-164
Box   44
  Folder   2
pp. 165-377
Box   44
  Folder   3
pp. 378-578
Third draft
Box   44
  Folder   4
pp. 1-224
Box   44
  Folder   5
pp. 225-413
Box   44
  Folder   6
pp. 414-568
Box   45
  Folder   1-3
Notes, revisions
Box   45
  Folder   4
Rejected material
Final draft
Box   45
  Folder   5
pp. 8-191
Box   46
  Folder   1
pp. 192-423
Box   46
  Folder   2
Final draft, revisions
Box   46
  Folder   3-4
Galley proofs
Box   46
  Folder   5
Review
Contract; financial information, 1961, 1963-1969
New York, New York (includes essay by Walter Kerr) 1964
Box   46
  Folder   7
Correspondence and contract; draft; financial information, 1964, 1964-1967
Five World Plays (foreward and afterword by Walter Kerr), 1964
Box   46
  Folder   8
Correspondence, 1962-1964
Box   46
  Folder   9
First drafts, revisions, notes
Box   47
  Folder   1
Revisions
Box   47
  Folder   2
Final drafts, outline
Box   47
  Folder   3
Galley proofs
Box   47
  Folder   4
Study guides
Box   47
  Folder   5
Contracts, financial information 1962-1968
Tragedy and Comedy / by Walter Kerr, 1967
Box   47
  Folder   6
Correspondence, 1966-1969
Box   47
  Folder   7-8
Notes
Box   48
  Folder   1-2
Notes
First draft, revisions
Box   48
  Folder   3
pp. 1-166
Box   48
  Folder   4
pp. 167-340
Box   48
  Folder   5
pp. 341-372
Box   48
  Folder   6
Notes
Box   49
  Folder   1-4
Notes
Second draft
Box   49
  Folder   5
Chapters 3 and 4
Box   50
  Folder   1
Chapter 13
Final draft
Box   50
  Folder   2
pp. 1-194
Box   50
  Folder   3
pp. 195-419
Box   50
  Folder   4
pp. 1w-174w
Box   50
  Folder   5
pp. 174aw-393w
Box   51
  Folder   1
Sidney Kingsley's notes
Box   51
  Folder   2
Financial statements and contracts, 1963-1969
Harold Pinter (a pamphlet by Walter Kerr for Columbia University Press), 1967
Box   51
  Folder   3
Correspondence, financial statements and contracts 1965-1969
Box   51
  Folder   4
First draft
Box   51
  Folder   5
Revisions, notes, clippings, research material
Box   51
  Folder   6-7
Final draft
Box   51
  Folder   8
Galley proofs
Box   51
  Folder   9
Copy for Horizon magazine
Box   51
  Folder   10
Final draft for Horizon magazine
Atlantic Brief Lives -A Biographical Companion to the Arts (essay on Euripides by Walter Kerr), 1968 edition
Box   51
  Folder   11
Contract; first draft; final draft; essay on Aristophanes by Dudley Fitts, 1967
Thirty Plays Hath November / by Walter Kerr, 1969
Box   51
  Folder   12
Correspondence; financial statements, 1968-1969, 1969
Box   51
  Folder   13-14
Reviews considered for book
Box   52
  Folder   1-3
Reviews considered for book (continued)
Box   52
  Folder   4-7
Notes
Box   53
  Folder   1
Revisions
First draft
Box   53
  Folder   2
Sections 1 and 2, "Film and Stage" and "The Vanishing Text"
Box   53
  Folder   3
Section 3, "Boredom, Freedom and Fear"
Box   53
  Folder   4
Section 4, "Albee, Miller, Williams"
Box   53
  Folder   5
Section 5, "Courage and Vexation"
Box   53
  Folder   6
Section 6, "Some Identity Crises"
Box   53
  Folder   7
Section 7, "Emotion in Our Time"
Box   53
  Folder   8
Section 8, "In the Name of Laughter"
Box   53
  Folder   9
Section 9, "Chekhov and Others"
Box   53
  Folder   10
Section 10, "Shylock"
Box   53
  Folder   11
Section 11, "Are the Stars out Tonight"
Box   53
  Folder   12
Section 12, "The Negro Actor"
Box   53
  Folder   13
Section 13, "Indelibles"
Box   53
  Folder   14
Section 14, "The Plot Against Musicals"
Box   53
  Folder   15
Section 15, "Reviewing"
Box   53
  Folder   16
Section 16, "A Few Favorites, Successful or Not"
Box   53
  Folder   17
Section 17, "Free Advice"
Box   53
  Folder   18
Section 18, "Repertory in Labor"
Box   53
  Folder   19
Section 19, "Practical Matters"
Box   53
  Folder   20
Section 20, "How to be an Audience"
Box   53
  Folder   21
Section 21, "Nostalgia"
First draft
Box   53
  Folder   22
pp. 1-224
Box   54
  Folder   1
pp. 225-424 (not complete)
Box   54
  Folder   2
pp. 425-672
Draft
Box   54
  Folder   3
pp. 1-247
Box   54
  Folder   4
pp. 248-511
Box   54
  Folder   5
pp. 512-672
Box   54
  Folder   6
Notes, revisions
Box   55
  Folder   1
Add copy
Box   55
  Folder   2
Revisions
Final draft
Box   55
  Folder   3
pp. 1-184
Box   55
  Folder   4
pp. 202-400
Box   55
  Folder   5
pp. 401-546
Ten Best Plays of 1968-1969 / introduction by Walter Kerr, 1969
Box   55
  Folder   6
Notes, first and second drafts
The Theatre World of Reginald Marsh-Drawings, 1969 April, New York art exhibition
Scope and Content Note: Introduction to the catalog by Walter Kerr.
Box   55
  Folder   7
Notes, first and final drafts, catalog
Articles
Box   55
  Folder   8
Articles by Walter Kerr, 1949, 1962-1966
Scope and Content Note: The National Theatre Conference, Horizon, House and Garden, The American Review, Newman Quarterly, Life, Harper's, "Alec Guiness as Dylan Thomas," and articles for Harold Clurman
Box   56
  Folder   1
Articles by Walter Kerr, undated
Scope and Content Note: Essays on Hamlet, Comedy, Shylock, theater construction, scenery, church art, and the stage
Box   56
  Folder   2
Articles specified for certain periodicals, undated
Scope and Content Note: McCall's, Theatre II, Saturday Review, British Theatre Encyclopedia
Box   56
  Folder   3
Articles for Walter Kerr, untitled and undated
Box   56
  Folder   4
Notes for "World Theatre"
Volume   1
Articles
Volume   5
Articles
Book Reviews
Box   56
  Folder   5
Drafts for reviews of Keaton / by Rudi Blesh and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / by Pauline Kael ; shorter reviews for Commonweal, Christmas books 1966, 1968, 1965
Box   56
  Folder   6
Walter Kerr's movie sound track notes
Newspaper and Journal Reviews
Box   56
  Folder   7
Opening night notes on plays reviewed by Walter Kerr for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times
Box   56
  Folder   8-10
Opening night notes
Box   57
  Folder   1
Opening night notes (continued)
Volume   29
Play and book reviews by Walter Kerr that appeared in Commonweal, 1950-1952
New York Herald Tribune, 1951-1966
Scope and Content Note: Play reviews and theater criticism written by Walter Kerr.
Box   57
  Folder   2
1951-1952
Volume   30
1951-1954
Box   57
  Folder   3-6
1953-1956
Box   58
  Folder   1-5
1957-1961
Box   59
  Folder   1-5
1962-1963 October
Box   60
  Folder   1-5
1963 October-1964 October
Box   61
  Folder   1-4
1964 November-1965
Box   62
  Folder   1
1966 January-April
Box   62
  Folder   2
Not used, but intended for the New York Herald Tribune
New York Times, 1966-1969
Scope and Content Note: Play reviews and theater criticism written by Walter Kerr.
Box   62
  Folder   3-6
1966 September-1967
Box   63
  Folder   1-5
1968-1969 June
Box   64
  Folder   1
1969 July-October
Box   64
  Folder   2
Not used, but intended for the New York Times
Television Reviews
Box   64
  Folder   3-4
CBS News, 1962 December-1963 March
Note: See also Audio recordings series for a CBS review of Too Good to Be True
Columnists on the Air
Box   64
  Folder   5
Correspondence, contracts, play reviews and theater criticism 1963 June-1965 April
Radio Reviews
Box   64
  Folder   6
WQXR Radio Broadcasts, 1966 November-1969 October
Series: Lectures
Lectures given by Walter Kerr as a professor at Catholic University
Box   64
  Folder   7
Lecture notes on comedy
Box   65
  Folder   1
Lecture notes on directing
Box   65
  Folder   2
Lecture notes, clippings on theory of drama
Box   65
  Folder   4
Lecture notes, clippings on playwriting
Box   65
  Folder   4
Lecture notes on tragedy
Box   65
  Folder   5
Miscellaneous lecture notes
Box   65
  Folder   6
Lectures at Northwestern University, Harvard, Hill School, Columbia University, ACPS, New York University, Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club 1961-1966
Salzburg Seminar in American Studies
Box   65
  Folder   7
Correspondence, notes, financial and miscellaneous information 1966
Box   65
  Folder   8
Lectures given at Harvard, Book and Author Luncheon on Tragedy and Comedy, Providence College, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Detroit 1967-1969
Box   66
  Folder   1-2
Miscellaneous lecture notes on theater, undated
Box   66
  Folder   3-5, 7
Research file
Box   66
  Folder   6
List of plays produced in New York, 1900-1924
Series: Television
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries, 1960 March-May
Scope and Content Note: Producer: Robert Saudek Associates Inc.
Box   67
  Folder   4
Correspondence, contracts 1960 January-April
"The Bat," 1960 March 31
Scope and Content Note: By Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   33
Script, 1960 March 17
"The Datchet Diamonds," 1960 June
Scope and Content Note: By Richard Marsh; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   33
Script
Volume   33
Script, 1960 May 31
Volume   33
Script, 1960 June 21
Esso Repertory Theatre
Scope and Content Note: With Walter Kerr as host of program
Box   67
  Folder   5
Correspondence program plans, notes and drafts of Walter Kerr's scripts 1964-1965
Box   67
  Folder   6
Background information on playwrights, and repertory theaters considered for the program
Omnibus
Box   67
  Folder   7
Walter Kerr's discussion on Hamlet, correspondence 1955 January-May
"Oedipus the King (Rex)," 1957 January 6
Scope and Content Note

Director: Alan Schneider

Writer: Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald; adapted by Walter Kerr

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Carl Goodner, Robert Goodier, Ronald Davis

Box   67
  Folder   8
Correspondence, contract 1956-1959
Volume   31
Script, 1956 February 20
"The Boyhood of Will Shakespeare," 1957 February 24
Scope and Content Note: By Alfred Harbage; adapted by Walter Kerr
Box   67
  Folder   9
Correspondence, 1957
Volume   31
Script, 1957 February 19
"The Theatre Breaks Loose," 1957 March 3
Scope and Content Note: Written and narrated by Walter Kerr
Box   67
  Folder   10
Correspondence, contract 1956-1965
Volume   31
Script, 1957 February 25
"School for Wives," 1957
Scope and Content Note: By Moliere; adapted by Walter Kerr
Box   67
  Folder   11
Correspondence, contracts 1958-1959
Volume   31
Script
Volume   13
Script
"Mrs. McThing," 1958 March 9
Scope and Content Note: By Mary Chase; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   32
Script
"Lady's Not for Burning," 1958 April 6
Scope and Content Note: By Christopher Fry; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   32
Script
"The Oresteia," 1959 January 4
Scope and Content Note: By Aeschylus; adapted by Leo Brady
Volume   32
Script
"Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway," 1959 March
Scope and Content Note

By George M. Cohan; adapted by Walter Kerr

See also the Photographs in Box 72.

Volume   33
Script, notes
Volume   33
Script
Volume   32
Script
"The Strange Ordeal of the Normandier," 1959 April 12
Scope and Content Note: By H.L. Tredree; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   32
Script
"Roughing It," 1960 April 19
Scope and Content Note: By Mark Twain; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   33
Script
The Open Mind
"The State of Culture in the United States Today," 1962 April 29
Scope and Content Note

Narrator: Eric F. Goldman

Guests: August Heckschen, Walter Kerr, Alfred A. Knopf, and David Susskind

Box   67
  Folder   12
Correspondence; script, 1962-1964
"Critics and the Theater," 1963 May 19
Scope and Content Note

Narrator: Eric F. Goldman

Guests: Lillian Hellman, Walter Kerr, David Merrick, and Richard Watts, Jr.

Box   67
  Folder   13
Correspondence; script, 1963
Profiles in Courage
Box   68
  Folder   1
Correspondence, 1963-1969
"George W. Norris-I Have Come Home to Tell You the Truth," 1963 September
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by Leo Lieberman
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 August 1
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 September 3
"The Ben Lindsey Story," 1963 September 20
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by John Kneubuhl
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 September 20
"Thomas Hart Benton," 1963 August 19
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by A.J. Russell
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 August 19
"Oscar W. Underwood-Dark Horse, White Cross," 1963 August 27
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by David Karp
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script synopsis, 1963 August 27
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 December 6
"Ann Hutchinson," 1964
Scope and Content Note: By Jonathan Miller
Box   68
  Folder   3
Script, 1964 June 1
Box   68
  Folder   3
Two Scripts
Box   68
  Folder   4
Robert Saudek Associates Inc. miscellaneous scripts; program plans; notes; outlines for program on Lincoln Center Theater and for film on Lincoln Repertory Company, 1962, December 28
Box   68
  Folder   5
Financial reports, 1957-1965
Trio No. 9, 1962
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Martin Levin

Guests: Walter Kerr, Richard Lemon and Harold C. Schonberg

Box   68
  Folder   6
Correspondence, contracts, scripts ("A Matter of Taste")
Miscellaneous Television Scripts
Volume   19
"Miss Platt Selects Mate" based on Touch and Go / by Walter and Jean Kerr
Volume   19
“Sing Out Sweet Land,” plan for a television program based on Walter Kerr's play
Volume   19
"The Long Way Home"
Volume   19
"The Artful Dodger"
Volume   19
Untitled television script
"The Good Fairy," 1956
Scope and Content Note: By Ferenc Molnar; adapted by Jean Kerr
Box   68
  Folder   7
Script
Volume   31
Script
Volume   32
"Family Relationships"
Volume   33
Ideas for television series by Jean and Walter Kerr
Box   68
  Folder   8
Miscellaneous television and radio contracts
Series: Jean Kerr books and articles
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Box   68
  Folder   9
Correspondence, 1957-1969
Box   68
  Folder   10
Financial and legal information, 1957-1968
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)
Box   69
  Folder   1
Correspondence, financial and legal information
Box   69
  Folder   2
Drafts of articles used in the book
Box   69
  Folder   3
Printer's draft
Box   69
  Folder   4
Galley proofs
Box   69
  Folder   5
Contracts, financial information 1960-1962
Penny Candy (1970)
Box   69
  Folder   6
Drafts of articles used in book
Volume   19
Miscellaneous articles
Box   69
  Folder   7
“Our Neo-Gingerbread House,” “What Makes Me Laugh,” “Actors Anonymous,” “Milder, Much Milder,” and fragments 1955, 1960
Series: Miscellaneous
The Merchant of Venice
Scope and Content Note: By William Shakespeare, as produced by David Belasco (New York, 1922 December 21)
Box   70
  Folder   1
Souvenir Booklet
Notes and Counter Notes, 1964
Scope and Content Note: By Eugene Ionesco; translated by Donald Watson
Box   70
  Folder   2
Galley proofs
Nobovich Directs
Box   70
  Folder   3
Script, correspondence 1966
Prometheus Bound, 1967
Scope and Content Note: By Robert Lowell; derived from Aeschylus
Box   70
  Folder   4
Two scripts
Saint-Watching, 1969
Scope and Content Note: By Phyllis McGinley
Box   70
  Folder   5
Proofs, correspondence
Notes on a Cowardly Lion, 1969
Scope and Content Note: By John Lahr
Box   70
  Folder   6
Proofs, notes
Box   70
  Folder   7
Motion Picture magazine, 1927 July; 1928 September
St. George High School, Evanston, Illinois
Volume   54
"St. George News," 1927-1929
Volume   55
"The Georgian," 1929-1931
Box   70
  Folder   8
"The Dragon," 1931
Volume   57
"The Dragon," 1931
Box   70
  Folder   9
"The Souvenir Dragon," 1933
Marywood College
Box   70
  Folder   10
"The Tourmaline," 1943
Northwestern University
Volume   56
"Alumni News"
Volume   56
"University Information"
Volume   56
"Purple Parrot"
Volume   58-59
"Syllabus"; Yearbooks, 1937-1938
Scrapbooks, 1927-1963
Volume   34
1927-1929
Volume   35
1929-1930
Volume   36
1930-1932
Volume   37
1932-1934
Volume   38
1934
Volume   39
1935-1936
Volume   40
1936-1937
Volume   41
1937-1938
Volume   42
1938-1941
Volume   43
1941-1943
Volume   44
1943-1945
Volume   45
1945-1946
Volume   46
1946-1948
Volume   47
1948-1950
Volume   48
1950-1953
Volume   49
1953-1955
Volume   50
1955-1958
Volume   51
1957-1958
Volume   52
1957-1962
Volume   53
1962-1963
Box   71
Scrapbook, film and theater playbills
Box   72
Photographs
Scope and Content Note: Kerr family; No More Peace (Northwestern University); Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
Group Theater: stenographic recording of private sessions with the Group, 1939
Box   67
  Folder   1
1939 July 15-26
Box   67
  Folder   2
1939 August 1-September 1
Box   67
  Folder   3
Interviews, 1961-1968
Scope and Content Note

Walter Kerr: Stage and Screen interview by Donald McDonald, 1962; Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions interview, 1962; Playboy, 1965; Time

Jean Kerr: Time, 1961 April 14; interview by Dramatist's Guild, 1968 April

Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Audio 505A
Series: Audio recordings
Audio   505A/1
The Birds : score
Audio   505A/2-6
Goldilocks
Audio   505A/7
Jenny Kissed Me, performance at the Pasadena Playhouse, 1956 January 17
Audio   505A/8
Jenny Kissed Me, performance at the Pleasant Run Playhouse, St. Charles, Illinois, 1965 July 17
Audio   505A/9
Too Good to Be True, interview regarding play, 1963 March 12
Audio   505A/10
Please Don't Eat the Daisies, discussion of, and Kerr interview
Audio   505A/23
Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Doris Day
Audio   505A/11
PL Hayes and Mary H. on Poor Richard
Audio   505A/12
Walter Kerr interview
Audio   505A/13
Night Call, discussion with Judith Crist
Audio   505A/14
Leonard Probst interview on Tragedy and Comedy
Audio   505A/15
The Subject Is Theater Part 1, Academy Workshop of the ANTA Theatre by Walter Kerr
Audio   505A/16
Sing Out, Sweet Land, 1972 April 3
Audio   505A/17-20
Sing Out Sweet Land
Audio   505A/21
Goldilocks : musical score, tracks 1-10, 1958
Audio   505A/22
Goldilocks : musical score, tracks 11-13, 1958
Audio   505A/24-26
NBC Interview with Jean Kerr, 1956 January 28
Audio   505A/27
"Danny Boy" and "Old Man River," Tom Collins
Audio   505A/28
"Old Man River,""Danny Boy,""I Dreamed of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," and Irish folk songs, Tom Collins
Audio   505A/29
Piano solos, 1-2
Audio   505A/30
Piano solos, 3-4
Audio   505A/31
Piano solos, 5-6
Audio   505A/32
Piano solos, 7-8
Audio   505A/39-40
Walter Kerr reading/lecture, 1970 September 2
Audio   505A/41-43
"Who Makes Theater"
Audio   505A/44
"Who Makes Theatre?" : 2nd edition
Audio   505A/45
"What is Theater" #147521, 1970 December 2
Audio   505A/46
"What is Theater" #148067
Audio   505A/47
"What is Theater" #149260
Audio   505A/48
"What is Theatre" : 2nd edition
Audio   505A/49
"Keeping Up with the Times", 1971 March 8
Audio   505A/50
Walter Kerr lecture, 4th Annual American Theatre Festival, G.W. Post College Lecture, John Gossmer series 1971 April
Audio   505A/51
Experimental Theater : new version, 1971 May
Audio   505A/52
"Why Have Theater" #147579, 1971 May
Audio   505A/53-55
"Why Have Theater" #148376, 1971 May
Audio   505A/56
"Why Have Theater" #148765 : final cassette form, 1971 May
Audio   505A/57
"Why Theatre" “Mock-Up Dub”
Audio   505A/58
"Architecture of Theatre" #148830
Audio   505A/59
"The Theatre Today"
Audio   505A/60
"The Theatre Today" : final, 1971 August 11
Audio   505A/61
"Inside Drama" : pilot, 1971 October 28
Audio   505A/62
"Inside the Play" : pilot, 1971 October 28
Audio   505A/63
"How to Judge Theatre", edited 1971 October 19
Audio   505A/64
"How to Judge Theatre"
Audio   505A/65
"How to Judge Theatre", 1971 October 29
Audio   505A/66
"The Changing Theatre", 1971 October 29
Audio   505A/67
"Final Retape," : “first half of #1“ 1971 November 23
Audio   505A/68
"At Issue," The Theatre of Audience Participation
Audio   505A/69-72
"Who Makes Theatre"
Audio   505A/73
"How Scenes are Made"
Audio   505A/74-75
Walter Kerr lecture, Austin, Texas
Audio   505A/76
W. Sarogan[?]
Audio   505A/77
Hello Dolly, "Golly Gee Fellas"
Audio   505A/78
Black Ethics and Expressions / Paul Robeson