Scope and Contents

The material is comprised of scattered correspondence between 1927 and 1977, some of which is from Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, and newspaper clippings, mostly from the 1920s, about the University of Louisville Players.

Scope and Contents Collection contains mainly scrapbooks containing reviews, cast lists and other papers related to Martin's work in local theater companies including Macauley’s Theater, Masonic Theater, Little Theater Company, and the University of Louisville’s UofL Players, and Belknap Players. Also found in the collection are correspondence files including programs, playbills, prompt books, posters, and photos. At The Theatre Notebooks: six volumes, national shows and reviews. Masonic Theatre Notebooks:...

Content Description

The scrapbook was compiled in 1924 and contains newspaper clippings, programs, and sketches dealing with productions of the U of L Players between 1922 and 1925. The photographs depict two theatrical productions performed by the players in the 1925-1926 season, The Swan, and The Shabby Paradise.

Summary This collection includes records of Elizabeth Arterburn Wilson's career as Louisville recreation specialist (1930s), Louisville U.S.O. director (1940-45), recreation specialist with the American Red Cross in Germany (1945-50) and cultural affairs officer with the United States Information Agency in Hanover, Germany (1950-71). Also included are photograph albums of the Wilson family and life at the University of Louisville during the 1920s. Please note that while the photographs are in good...

Content Description

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.