Macauley's Theater (Louisville, Ky.)

Summary The Leonard C. Brecher Collection contains business and financial records as well as programs for the theatre programs at the University of Louisville; University Players, The Little Theatre Company (LTC), and Belknap Theatre ranging from the 1940s to the 1970s. This includes the merger between companies over time. Information regarding the Macauley Theatre is also included. Playbills/Programs and scripts from various theatres across the country are also in the collection, along with a small...

Content Description The collection contains playbills, clippings, and memorabilia from Louisville at the turn of the twentieth century. Included are items from Macauley Theatre and Temple Auditorium. Also present are a 1901 typing textbook; a 1900 commencement program from the Louisville College of Pharmacy; and a 1901 program printed for opening day at the Churchill Downs spring racing meet. Newspapers and newspaper clippings include: a Christmas anniversary issue of the Pikeville (Ky.) Mountain Monitor,...

Scope and Contents Papers related to Harry J. Martin’s work as manager of Louisville’s Macauley Theatre from 1922-1925 and of the Brown Theatre from 1925 to 1931. The folders include correspondence, mostly letters to the editors of Louisville newspapers about theatre history with two letters from his friend photographer R.G. Potter; photographs, including one of Martin as a boy and of his mother; account sheets for “Harry J. Martin Attractions National Theatre 1931-1932;” a 1966 typescript “Stories concerning...

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Letters received by Macauley from actors and authors including John Fox, Jr., Julia Marlowe, Edwin Booth, and newspaper editor Henry Watterson; autograph book of Mary Macauley with signatures including Sarah Bernhardt and Oscar Wilde.

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This is a piece of a curtain described as the last to hang in the old Macauley Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Zeiser created this scrapbook, which contains material dealing with her membership in the U of L Players in the late 1910s and miscellaneous letters and newspaper clippings on the Little Theater Company and the Macauley Picture Collection. Included also is a brief reminiscence of her years in the amateur theater in the university's Playhouse, from 1914 to 1938, written at the time of her donation of the scrapbook to University Archives.