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Printed Programs (from Banquets, Dinners, etc.), 1937-1970

 Sub-Series

This subseries contains printed programs from various events, plays and functions attended by Sioussat. Included are programs for several inaugurations and a vast collection of "Playbills" for various Broadway productions:

General (1937-1970; undated) (3 folders):

Includes: "Forty-Second Annual Dinner of the National Association of Manufacturers" (1937); "American Arbitration Assoc." (1938); "New York Newspaper Women's Club Sixteenth Annual Party" (1938); "Silver Anniversary of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Announcement of Pulitzer Prizes" (1938); "Annual Banquet of the National Federation of Press Women" (1939); "Campaign Dinner of the Greater New York Fund" (1939); "Let's Help Finland" (New York Chapter Finish Relief Fund) (1939); "New Decade Mardi Gras and Ball Celebrating the President's Birthday" (1941); "Dinner in Honor of Edward R. Murrow" (Seating List) (1941); "Diamond Jubilee Ball" ("In Celebration of the President's Sixtieth Birthday for the Benefit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis") (1942); "George Foster Peabody Awards Dinner" (1942); Luncheon for the Four King's Scouts of the British Boy Scouts Assoc. (1942); "Fifteenth Institute for Education by Radio" (1944); "Citizens Day" (Kiwanis Club) (1945); "The United Nations Conference on International Organization" (1945); "The Original 'El Morocco' No-News" (1947); National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. (1948); Overseas Press Club of America "Seventh Annual Dinner" (1948); "Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball" at the Waldorf-Astoria (1949) (2 copies); "The Overseas Press Club of America: Tenth Anniversary Dinner" (1949); "A Dinner and Program in Honor of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky Upon His Silver Anniversary with the Boston Symphony Orchestra" (1949); "The New York Infirmary Presents The Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball" (1949) (2 copies); "Dinner to Commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace" (1949); "Education Writers Institute" (Fourth Annual) (1953); "Our Bill" (Testimonial Dinner honoring William L. Pfeiffer) (1953); "Future Unlimited Banquet" (Junior Achievement) (1954) (2 copies); "Tribute to Women Of the Press" (in honor of Marguerite Higgins) (American Women's Assoc.) (1956) (2 copies); "Reception and Dinner in Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Basil O'Connor on the Occasion of their Marriage" (1957); "Conference on Foreign Aspects of U.S. National Security" (1958); "Conference on Foreign Aspects of United States National Security" (1958); "The Dancers" (1959-1960 season); "Yankee Clippers Carry On" (25th anniversary of the Pan Am Clipper) (1964); Luncheon at the White House (1970); "Launching of the S.S. Hope Victory" (Permanente Metals Corp.) (undated); and "International Assembly of Women--Dinner in Honor of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt" (undated).

Inaugurations (1 folder):

This category contains programs for the following: Presidential Inaugurals: Roosevelt in 1937; Eisenhower in 1953; Eisenhower again in 1957; and Kennedy in 1961.

"Playbills," et.al. (99 folders):

"Playbills" and other theatrical or entertainment-oriented printed programs included in this Collection are: "Anne of a Thousand Days" (with Rex Harrison, 1948); "Another Love Story" (1943); "As the Girls Go" (with Irene Rich, 1949); "Ballet International" (Season 1944-45); "Ballet Theatre" (1943 Season); "Ballet Theatre" ("Les Sylphides," "Fall River Legend," "Pas De Deux," "Helen of Troy," 1949); "Ballet Theatre" ("Swan Lake," "Petrouchka," "Mademoiselle Angot," 1943); "Bell, Book and Candle" (with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, 1951); "The Big Knife" (with John Garfield and Nancy Kelly, 1949); "Bravo!" (1948); "The Browning Version" (with Maurice Evans, 1949); "A Boy Who Lived Twice" (1945); "Brigadoon" (undated); "Call Me Madam" (with Ethel Merman, 1950); "Carmen Jones" (1943); "Carousel" (1945); "The Cocktail Party" (with Alec Guiness, 1950); "Come Back, Little Sheba" (with Shirley Booth, 1950); "A Connecticut Yankee" (with Dick Foran and Vivienne Segal, 1943) (2 copies); "The Consul" (1950); "Dark of the Moon" (1945); "Death of a Salesman" (with Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, 1949); "Deep Are the Roots" (1945); "Der Rosenkavalier" (1944); "Detective Story" (with Ralph Bellamy and Lee Grant, 1949); "The Devil's Disciple" (with Marsha Hunt and Maurice Evans, 1950); "Don Giovanni" (1950) (Met Opera); "Edward, My Son" (with Robert Morley and Peggy Ashcroft, 1948); "Foolish Notion" (with Tallulah Bankhead, 1945); "Foxhole in the Parlor" (with Montgomery Clift, 1945); "Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Concert" (Jan. 30, 1949); "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (with Carol Channing, 1949); "Giselle" (Met Opera, 1945); "The Glass Menagerie" (with Laurette Taylor, Eddie Dowling, and Julie Haydon, 1945); "Goodbye, My Fancy" (with Madeleine Carroll, Shirley Booth, Conrad Nagel, and Sam Wanamaker, 1949); "Hamlet" (with Laurence Olivier, undated); "The Happy Journey" (1948); "The Happy Time" (1950); "Harvey" (with Frank Fay, 1945); "The Hasty Heart" (with John Lund, 1945); "The Heiress" (with Miriam Hopkins, 1949) (2 copies); "Hollywood Pinafore" (1945); "Honest John" (with Buddy Ebsen, 1948); "Hope for the Best" (with Franchot Tone and Jane Wyatt, 1945); "The Innocents" (with Beatrice Straight, 1950); "Irene" (with Anna Neagle and Ray Milland, 1940) (film); "The Ivy Green" (with Judith Evelyn and Hurd Hartfield, 1949); "Kiss Me, Kate" (with Patrica Morison, 1948); "Kiss Me, Kate" (with Alfred Drake and Patricia Morrison, 1949); "Lady in Danger" (1945); "Laugh Time" (with Frank Fay, Ethel Waters, and Bert Wheeler, 1943); "Life with Mother" (1949); "Light Up the Sky" (1948); "Listen, Professor!" (1944); "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (with John Carradine, Martita Hunt, and Estelle Winwood, 1949); "Magnolia Alley" (with Jessie Royce Landis, Jackie Cooper, Anne Jackson and Julie Harris, 1949); "Manhattan Nocturne" (1943); "Marinka" (1945); "The Member of the Wedding" (with Ethel Waters and Julie Harris, 1950); "Memphis Bound" (with Bill Robinson, 1945); "Miss Liberty" (1949); New York Center of Music and Drama (1945 season); "Oh, Brother!" (1945); "Oklahoma!" (1943-1945) (5 copies); "One Touch of Venus" (with Mary Martin, 1943); "On the Town" (with Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, 1945); "Othello" (with Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer and Uta Hagen, 1943); "Out of This World" (with Charlotte Greenwood, 1951); "The Overtons" (with Arlene Francis and Glenda Farrell, 1945); "The Overtons" (with Judith Evelyn, 1945); "Over Twenty-One" (with Ruth Gordon, 1944); "The Patriots" (1943); "Peter Pan" (with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, 1950); "Pillar to Post" (1943) (2 copies); "The Play's the Thing" (with Faye Emerson and Louis Calhern, 1948); "Private Lives" (with Tallulah Bankhead, 1949); "Red Gloves" (with Charles Boyer, 1948); "The Red Shoes" (film) (1948); "Regina" (1949); "Saratoga" (with Carol Lawrence and Howard Keel, 1959); "Seven Lively Arts" (with Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, 1945); "The Silver Whistle" (with Jose Ferrer, 1949); "Sing Out Sweet Land" (1945); "Small Wonder" (with Tom Ewell and Alice Pearce, 1948); "South Pacific" (with Mary Martin, 1949) (4 copies); "South Pacific" (with Mary Martin, 1950) (2 copies); "The Tempest" (with Vera Zorina and Canada Lee, 1945); "That Lady" (with Katharine Cornell, 1949); "Tomorrow the World" (with Ralph Bellamy and Shirley Booth, 1943); "Tosca" (and its libretto) (Met Opera) (1944); "It Happens Every Spring" (with Ray Milland and Jean Peters, 1949) (film; credits lists only); "The Traitor" (1949); "Two Blind Mice" (with Melvin Douglas, 1949); "Up in Central Park" (1945); "The Velvet Glove" (1950); "The Voice of the Turtle" (with Margaret Sullavan, 1943); "Where's Charley" (with Ray Bolger, 1949); "Winged Victory" (1943); and "The Wisteria Trees" (with Helen Hayes, 1950).

Dates

  • 1937-1970

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Extent

1.25 Linear Feet

Library Details

Part of the Special Collections and University Archives

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