GUIDE TO COLLECTION

Collection Title: Rosa Hart/Little Theatre Collection

Accession Number: 001

Series 1: Scrapbooks | Series 2: Playbills | Series 3: Scripts | Series 4: Correspondence | Series 5: Photographs | Series 6: Miscellaneous

Container List

Series 1: Scrapbooks

Subseries A: Little Theatre Seasons

Box 1

                1927-28 Season
                    Photographs from productions:
                        "Moonshine" and "Overtones," "The Cajun," "Seventeen," "The Trystin Place," "Two Crooks and a Lady"
                        photograph of Lake Charles Little Theatre Orchestra 1927-28
                1937-38 Season
                    1937-38 Season Scrapbook (complete), Season Membership ticket, Listing of Officers and Board of Directors,
                        Committee Chairmen, form letter requesting members, various LT clippings
                    "First Lady" Masonic Temple
                        programs, photographs from Stanley's Studio, announcement, newspaper clippings, photograph of orchestra,
                        correspondence, announcement of Drawing Room meeting "Tonight at 8:30"
                    "Kind Lady" Masonic Temple
                        program, photographs, clippings, announcement, notes, several pages dealing with presentation of "First Lady" in
                        Beaumont, newspaper clippings, photographs
                    "Ceiling Zero" Masonic Temple
                        program, photographs, announcement, clippings, correspondence, Drawing Room Meeting - announcement for
                        "Susan and God" and "Victoria and Regina"
                    "Stage Door"
                        photographs, clippings, announcement, programs
                        Clippings about the death of Robert Leake
                    Three large negatives of 1927-28? productions

Box 2

File Folder (FF) 1     Photograph of Lake Charles Little Theatre Orchestra
                                    1927-28 with members identified, photographs from productions:
                                        "The Valiant"
                                        "Ricky Runs Amok"
                                        "El Christo"
                                        "Pierrott's Penny"
                                        "The Cajun"
                                        "Rita"
                                        "Will O' the Wisp"
                                        "The Flower Shop"
                                        "For Distinguished Service"
                                        "Bagatelle"
                                        "Overtones"
                                        "Moonshine"
            1936-37 Season
                    FF 2     "Lightin'" performed at the Masonic Temple program, newspaper clippings, photographs of scenes of
                                    the play taken by Stanley's Studio in Lake Charles, other misc. clippings
                    FF 3     "A Bill of Divorcement" Masonic Temple program, newspaper clippings, photographs by Stanley's Studio
                    FF 4     "The Barker" Masonic Temple program, clippings, photographs by Stanley's Studio
                    FF 5     "The Drunkard" Majestic Hotel presented by the Junior Welfare League program, newspaper clippings,
                                    photographs by Stanley's Studio, also announcement of Drawing Room meeting "Waiting for Lefty"
                    FF 6     "Cock Robin" Masonic Temple program, clippings, photographs by Stanley's Studio
                    FF 7     "Three Cornered Moon" Masonic Temple program, photographs, newspaper clippings
                    FF 8     "The Ghost Train" Masonic Temple program, photographs
                    FF 9     "Trial of Mary Dugan" presented by Enterprise Club newspaper clippings, photographs
                    FF 10   Misc. items - newspaper clippings about the Little Theatre, announcement of the LT Scavenger-Salvage
                                    Party, listing of officers, board of directors and committee chairman, announcements and photograph of
                                    workshop one-act plays "The Revealing Moment" and "The Rehearsal," announcements of Drawing
                                    Room meetings "Mr. Antonio" and "Winterset"
            1938-39 Season
                    FF 11   "Springtime for Henry" Summer Intimate Theatre photographs
                    FF 12   "Cradle Snatchers" photographs, newspaper clippings, programs
                    FF 13   "Personal Appearance" photographs
                    FF 14   page from scrapbook listing season's performance (rest of scrapbook missing at this time), "Outward
                                    Bound" photographs from play, newspaper clippings
            1940-41 Season
                    FF 15   "Elizabeth the Queen" three programs (one autographed), photographs of scenes, also of cast offstage,
                                    announcement, newspaper clippings, notes
                    FF 16   "The Lake Charles Little Theatre presents the Junior Members in Three One-Act Plays" program,
                                    photographs from "Old Man Taterbug" and "The Minuet," and "Torchbearers, Act II"
                    FF 17   "Candle Light" program, photographs, clippings
                                "Here Today" program, clippings
                                "Whistling in the Dark" program, clippings
                    FF 18   "The Women" presented by the Junior Welfare League newspaper clippings, photographs, negatives from
                                    scenes of the play, stage directions

Box 3

            1939-40 Season
                    Scrapbook (complete)
                    "You Can't Take It With You" presented by Little Theatre on Bilbo Street
                        programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of rehearsals by Camera Club, dress rehearsal pictures by Stanley's
                        Studio, Levington pictures night of show, miscellaneous clippings about symphony performing at LT, correspondence
                    "Night Must Fall"
                        newspaper clippings, programs, photographs, Photograph of LT Orchestra
                    "Little Women"
                        clippings, announcement, photographs, misc. newspaper clippings about Florence Williams and Edward
                        Everett Horton
                    "Room Service"
                        program, newspaper clippings, photographs
                    "The Bat"
                        newspaper clippings, photographs, notes
            1941-42 Season
                    Scrapbook (complete)
                    "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
                        program (autographed), photographs, newspaper clippings
                    "What A Life"
                        two programs (one autographed), notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, clippings about play going to
                        Camp Polk
                    "Reserve Two For Murder"
                        program announcement, photographs of scenes from play, photograph of audience, newspaper clippings,
                        correspondence
                    "My Sister Eileen"
                        program (autographed), photographs, newspaper clippings
                        Sweat and Culture - misc. clippings

                Note: There were no LT productions from the 1941-42 Season until the 1946-47 Season

Box 4

            1946-47 Season
                    FF 1     Stable Talk - 4 page newspaper put out by Little Theatre October 14-17, 1946 vol. 1 #2, (3 copies),
                                    contains short history of LT, note from New York Public Library about receipt of copy, clippings about
                                    Harnett Kane appearing at the LT, page from scrapbook listing season's performances, misc. clippings
                                    about LT
                    FF 2     "Boy Meets Girl"
                                    newspaper clippings, KPLC News Items, music for LT fanfare, Stable Talk
                                    (autographed and used as "Boy Meets Girl" program), letter from Rosa to Dramatists Play Service
                    FF 3     photographs from scenes of the play "Boy Meets Girl"
                    FF 4     "I Remember Mama"
                                    programs, insert to programs about volunteer workers, clippings, KPLC News
                                    Items, scene sequences, cast notes, telegrams, correspondence, box office reservation list
                    FF 5     photographs from scenes of the play "I Remember Mama," photograph of graduation of make-up
                                    class -1947
                    FF 6     "Mary of Scotland"
                                    newspaper clippings, (also clippings of 20th anniversary of LT), programs, list of cast members,
                                    telegrams, glass plate, box office reservations, correspondence
                    FF 7     photographs from scenes of the play "Mary of Scotland," backstage photographs
                    FF 8     "Biography" presented by Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre of New Orleans correspondence, newspaper
                                    clippings, programs, ticket, telegrams
                    FF 9     photographs from scenes of the play "Biography"
                    FF 10   George Freedley - drama critic from New York to lecture at LT, newspaper clippings, telegrams,
                                    photographs (see correspondence file also)
                    FF 11   Little Theatre expedition to New Orleans - theatrical studies with Ethel Brett, photographs
                    FF 12   "Arsenic and Old Lace"
                                    newspaper clippings, program, cast notes, correspondence, production notes, glass plate, KPLC News
                                    Items, Piano Recital at LT - program and clippings, programs from the Barter Theatre of Virginia
                                    autographed by Robert Porterfield,
                    FF 13   photographs from scenes of the play "Arsenic and Old Lace," backstage photographs
                    FF 14   Little Theatre Picnic - newspaper clippings, photographs, negatives of picnic
                    FF 15   Summer Suckers - photographs, newspaper clippings

Box 5

            1947-48 Season
                    FF 1     "Dear Ruth" presented by Little Theatre of Shreveport list of props, newspaper clippings, programs,
                                    photographs of scenes of play, unidentified photograph of man, correspondence
                    FF 2     "Lions Club Minstrels" performed by the Lions Club with the aid of the Little Theatre photographs, notes,
                                    programs
                    FF 3     "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
                                    autographed program, newspaper clippings, photographs, KPLC
                                    News Items, correspondence, telegrams from Opelousas Little Theatre
                    FF 4     "Death Takes A Holiday"
                                    program, photographs, newspaper clippings, also clippings of piano recital held at LT, telegrams from
                                    Crowley and Beaumont
                    FF 5     "State of the Union"
                                    newspaper clippings, autographed program, script of play, correspondence, also newspaper clippings
                                    about Ethel Barrymore, Dalton Reymond, and article on Rosa, photographs of Wells Fargo
                    FF 6     photographs of scenes from the play "State of the Union" and backstage photographs

Box 6

            1947-48 Season (continued)
                                "The Great Big Doorstep"
                                    Scrapbook - photographs of scenes, newspaper clippings, telegrams from Life Magazine, other
                                    telegrams, photographs of house before and during the move, photographs of stage being set up,
                                    Southwest News article, "Stage and Screen" by Margery Wilson, photographs of Mary Ruth Wade who
                                    won a contest and went to Hollywood, backstage sketches by Doug Stapleton
                    FF 1     correspondence, letter (1952) to Life editors about Michael Rougier (the photographer from Life who
                                    came for the production), line changes, notes, light and curtain call notes, notes on entertaining Life
                                    photographers, program from LT in Shreveport
                    FF 2     Life Magazine articles, June 14, 1948 (4 copies), Southwest News article

                                 Two copies of June 14, 1998 commemorative article are outside the box

Box 7

            1948-49 Season
                    FF 1     "Glass Menagerie"
                                    newspaper clippings, two programs (one autographed), correspondence signed Hunter (see
                                    correspondence file for Hunter Leake)
                    FF 2     photographs from scenes of the play "Glass Menagerie," also backstage photographs
                    FF 3     "Life With Father"
                                    three programs (one autographed), newspaper clippings, articles from Times-Picayune New Orleans
                                    State Magazine, article from Houston Chronicle Magazine, correspondence, cast notes
                    FF 4     photographs from scenes of the play "Life With Father," pictures from movie version of "Life With Father"
                    FF 5     "Seven Keys to Baldpate"
                                    two programs (one autographed), newspaper clippings, photographs from play
                    FF 6     "Lovers and Madmen" presented by Houston Little Theatre two programs, newspaper clippings, pictures in
                                    Southwest News Magazine, telegram, correspondence, notes
                    FF 7     photographs from scenes of the play "Lovers and Madmen"
                    FF 8     "Blithe Spirit"
                                    newspaper clippings, telegrams, Stable Talk (one autographed which was used as the program for the
                                    play), clippings of Stage and Screen by Margery Wilson and other clippings identifying various persons,
                                    KPLC News Items, correspondence, photographs of the play
            1949-50 Season
                    FF 9     "Two Blind Mice"
                                    two programs (one autographed), newspaper clippings, photographs of the play
                    FF 10   "Over 21"
                                    newspaper clippings, three programs (one autographed), telegrams, correspondence, photographs of the
                                    play

Box 8

                    FF 1     "The Little Foxes"
                                    newspaper clippings, telegrams, three programs (one autographed), correspondence, photographs of the
                                    play
                    FF 2     "The Pursuit of Happiness"
                                    three programs (one autographed), newspaper clippings, telegrams, correspondence, photographs of the
                                    play
                    FF 3     "The Fatal Weakness" presented by Memphis Little Theatre three programs (one autographed), newspaper
                                    clippings, correspondence, photographs of the play
            1950-51 Season
                    FF 4     "Medea"
                                    newspaper clippings, notes, correspondence, photographs of rehearsals and of the play
                    FF 5     "Light Up the Sky"
                                    telegrams, correspondence, newspaper clippings, two programs
                    FF 6     photographs from scenes of the play "Light Up the Sky"
                    FF 7     "Peter Pan"
                                    newspaper clippings telegrams, notes, correspondence, three programs (one autographed)
                    FF 8     photographs of rehearsals and scenes from the play "Peter Pan"

Box 9

                    FF 1     "The Silver Whistle"
                                    newspaper clippings, three programs (two autographed), photographs of the play
                    FF 2     "Goodbye, My Fancy" presented by Tulsa Little Theatre correspondence, newspaper clippings, program
                                    from Tulsa performance, programs from Lake Charles performance, historical sketch of Tulsa Little
                                    Theatre, stage directions
                    FF 3     photographs from scenes of the play "Goodbye, My Fancy"
                    FF 4     "West From the Panhandle"
                                    two programs, article
                    FF 5     "Charles Laughton Visits Lake Charles"
                                    notes, correspondence, booklet on Laughton, newspaper clippings, contract, telegram, photographs of
                                    Laughton and Rosa
            1951-52 Season
                    FF 6     "20th Century"
                                    notes, newspaper clippings, telegrams, correspondence, five programs (two autographed), Kansas City
                                    Southern Lines News folder article on George Boudreaux
                    FF 7     photographs of the play "20th Century" and of Silver Anniversary fund raising, photographs of George
                                    Boudreaux
                    FF 8     "Voice of the Turtle"
                                    notes, copies of Stable Talk, copy of magazine Anepuka, copy of Dixie Magazine from Times-Picayune,
                                    correspondence, newspaper clippings
                    FF 9     photographs of the play "Voice of the Turtle" and of the Little Theatre building
                    FF 10   "Rain" presented by University of Houston Theatre newspaper clippings, notes, correspondence, program

Box 10

                    FF 1     "Snow Queen"
                                    newspaper clippings, telegrams, notes, eight programs (two autographed)
                    FF 2     correspondence concerning the play "Snow Queen"
                    FF 3     photographs from the play "Snow Queen"
                    FF 4     photographs from the play "Snow Queen"
                    FF 5     photographs from the play "Snow Queen"

Box 11

            1952-53 Season
                    FF 1     "Happy Time"
                                    two programs, newspaper clippings, notes, script, reprint of article from Shakespeare Quarterly, cover of
                                    booklet designed by Boyd Cruise, correspondence
                    FF 2     photographs of rehearsals of the play "Happy Time"
                    FF 3     photographs of scenes from the play "Happy Time"
                    FF 4     photographs of scenes from the play "Happy Time"
                    FF 5     "Come Back, Little Sheba" presented by New Orleans Little Theatre in association with Tulane University
                                    three programs, newspaper clippings, program from New Orleans production, correspondence, notes,
                                    program from "The Milky Way" a Playbox production from Texas
                    FF 6     photographs of scenes from the play "Come Back, Little Sheba"
                    FF 7     "Darkness At Noon"
                                    three programs (two autographed), notes, newspaper clippings, pages from Time Magazine January 26,
                                    1953, correspondence, telegrams, booklet from Theatre Production Service
                    FF 8     script from the play "Darkness at Noon"
                    FF 9     photographs from rehearsals and scenes of the play "Darkness At Noon"

Box 12

            1952-53 Season (continued)
                    FF 1     "Remains To Be Seen"
                                    newspaper clippings, three programs (one autographed), notes, two letters about a contest concerning
                                    the play, copy of Pittsburgh People with article about LT
                    FF 2     photographs from scenes of the play "Remains To Be Seen"
                    FF 3     "Bell, Book and Candle"
                                    book cover for Magic in Mexico, newspaper clippings, four programs (two autographed), notes,
                                    correspondence, notes on Masque of Kings at the Pioneer Club, KPLC News Item, photograph of
                                    stage
                    FF 4     photographs from scenes of the play "Bell, Book and Candle," photograph of set and set description
                    FF 5     photographs from scenes of the play "Bell, Book and Candle"

Box 13

            1953-54 Season
                    FF 1     "Out of the Frying Pan"
                                    four programs (two autographed), newspaper clippings, tickets
                    FF 2     two scripts of the play, notes
                    FF 3     photographs from scenes of the play "Out of the Frying Pan"
                    FF 4     "The Hasty Heart"
                                    three programs (two autographed), newspaper clippings, correspondence, railway receipt
                    FF 5     photographs from scenes of the play "The Hasty Heart"
                    FF 6     "Henry IV, Part I" presented by McNeese State College's Bayou Players newspaper clippings, three
                                    programs (two autographed), correspondence, notes, article from Seventeen Magazine
                    FF 7     photographs from scenes of the play "Henry IV, Part I

Box 14

            1953-54 Seasons (continued)
                    FF 1     "Born Yesterday"
                                    three programs (two autographed), telegrams, newspaper clippings, negatives of the stage
                    FF 2     photographs from scenes of the play "Born Yesterday"
                    FF 3     "Mr. Roberts"
                                    newspaper clippings, notes, cast lists
                    FF 4     correspondence, telegrams, copy of contract for Jeffrey Lynn to perform
                    FF 5     two scripts of the play "Mr. Roberts," four programs (two autographed), dogtags
            1954-55 Season
                    FF 6     "The Fourposter"
                                    three program (two autographed), newspaper clippings, telegrams, correspondence
                    FF 7     photographs from scenes of the play "The Fourposter"
                    FF 8     "The Man" presented by San Antonio Little Theatre two programs (both autographed), one San Antonio
                                    program, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence
                    FF 9     photographs from scenes of the play "The Man"

Box 15

                    FF 1     photographs from scenes of the play "Mr. Roberts"
                    FF 2     photographs from scenes of the play "Mr. Roberts"
                    FF 3     photographs from scenes of the play "Mr. Roberts"
                    FF 4     photographs from scenes of the play "Mr. Roberts"

Box 16

                    FF 1     "Le Carnaval" and "Androcles and the Lion" negatives, correspondence, notes three programs (two
                                    autographed)
                    FF 2     photographs from scenes of the plays "Le Carnaval" and "Androcles and the Lion"
                    FF 3     "My 3 Angels"
                                    newspaper clippings, five programs (one autographed), notes, notes of past history of LT, KPLC News
                                    Items
                    FF 4     photographs from scenes of the play "My 3 Angels"
                    FF 5     "Detective Story"
                                    four programs (two autographed), newspaper clippings, telegrams
                    FF 6     photographs from scenes of the play "Detective Story"
                    FF 7     photographs from scenes of the play "Detective Story"
                    FF 8     photographs from scenes of the play "Detective Story"

Box 17

            1955-56 Season
                    FF 1     "Quality Street"
                                    two programs (both autographed), correspondence, newspaper clippings
                    FF 2     photographs from scenes of the play "Quality Street"
                    FF 3     "The Remarkable Mr. Penny Packer"
                                    newspaper clippings, photographs
                    FF 4     photographs from scenes of the play "The Remarkable Mr. Penny Packer"
                    FF 5     "Stalag 17"
                                    two programs (both autographed), correspondence, contract for Hurd Hatfield, telegrams, notes,
                                    newspaper clippings, one program Utica Community Theatre
                    FF 6     photographs from scenes of the play "Stalag 17"
                    FF 7     "High Ground"
                                    newspaper clippings, two programs (both autographed), photographed from scenes of the play "High
                                    Ground"
                    FF 8     "Happy Birthday" presented by the Baton Rouge Little Theatre notes, newspaper clippings, tickets, four
                                    programs, correspondence, telegrams, photographs from scenes of the play "Happy Birthday"

Box 18

            1956-57Season
                    FF 1     "Barefoot in Athens"
                                    two scripts, two articles on Socrates, newspaper clippings, correspondence, notes, map of Athens, five
                                    programs (two autographed), phonograph album of the reading of the play (located outside of the File
                                    Folder)
                    FF 2     photographs from scenes of the play "Barefoot in Athens"
                    FF 3     "Solid Gold Cadillac"
                                    newspaper clippings, photograph from scenes of the play "Solid Gold Cadillac"
                    FF 4     "The Fifth Season" presented by the Stage, Inc. of Beaumont, Texas newspaper clippings, program from
                                    production in Beaumont, two programs from the LT production (both autographed), photographs from
                                    scenes of the play "The Fifth Season"
                    FF 5     "The Lark"
                                    newspaper clippings, notes, three programs (two autographed), correspondence, letter from Lillian
                                    Hellman, two large photographs of scenes and cast (located outside of the File Folder)

Box 19

            1957-58 Season
                    FF 1     "Death of a Salesman"
                                    four programs (two autographed), script, notes, newspaper clippings, photographs from scenes of the
                                    play "Death of a Salesman"
                    FF 2     "Teahouse of the August Moon"
                                    four programs, sign from play, notes, newspaper clippings
            1958-59 Season
                    FF 3     "Sabrina Fair"
                                    two programs (both autographed), newspaper clippings, photographs from scenes of the play
                                    "Sabrina Fair"
                    FF 4     "White Sheep of the Family"
                                    two programs (both autographed), newspaper clippings, photograph of Edward Everett Horton, hotel
                                    bill, correspondence from Horton
            1959-60 Season
                    FF 5     "The Rainmaker"
                                    newspaper clippings
                    FF 6     "Visit to a Small Planet"
                                    newspaper clippings
            1964 Season
                    FF 7     "A Divertissment"
                                    three programs, invitations, correspondence, photographs from scenes of the play "A Divertissment"
                    FF 8     "Once Upon a Mattress"
                                    one program including photographs, notes
                    FF 9     "Camelot"
                                    two programs including photographs, notes

Subseries B: Postcard Collection

Box 1
                    Miscellaneous postcards

Box 2
                    Miscellaneous postcards

Subseries C: Europe Trip

Box 1
                    Scrapbook of 1951 trip to Europe with Charlotte Tucker Photographs, playbills, postcards, brochures

                    Travel diary of 1956 trip to Europe with Anne Belle Dees and Isabel Heinke, vaccination certificate, Russian phrase
                        book, passport and passport photographs, itineraries, clippings, maps, pamphlets, correspondence,
                        miscellaneous photographs of tourist attractions

Subseries D: Contest Notebooks

Box 1
                    2 notebooks
                    correspondence
                    contest entries
                    photographs

Subseries E: Newcomb Girls' College

Box 1

                    Scrapbook
                        Jambalaya 1920 Tulane yearbook
                        Rosa - member of Junior class - p. 69
                        winner of wit contest - p. 138
                        photograph p. 137
                        (this yearbook came from McNeese Library collection - not originally from the Rosa Hart Collection)
                        Rosa's diploma
                        postcards, other misc. items
                        photographs of Rosa Hart as Tulane cheerleader (2)
                        "Gotta Have Hart" by Mary Ann Travis Tulanian (Winter 1997-98)