Columbia Theater Associates records, 1893-1958

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Columbia Theater Associate records

This collection includes photographs of productions and production files, which are organized alphabetically. Programs and playbills are organized chronologically. The Gertrude K. Spencer Collection of Theatrical Posters from Columbia University Productions was presented to The Grander Matthews Dramatic Museum of Columbia University in February, 1971 by Mr. Louis Spencer, in memory of his wife, Gertrude K. Spencer. Boxes 6-11 of the Columbia Laboratory Players records were added in 1990.


General Records



Box 1 Folder 6 Announcements of productions


Box 1 Folder 7 Clippings pertaining to The Morningside Players, 1917


Box 1 Folder 8 Clippings pertaining to The Morningside Players, 1932


Box 1 Folder 9 Clippings and pamphlets relating to "Evangeline" and the Brander Matthews Theater, 1917-1954


Box 1 Folder 10 Columbia University's celebration of the 700th Anniversary of Roger Bacon (2 pamphlets), 1914-1947



Box 6 Folder 1 Columbia Laboratory Players correspondence, 1927-1972


Box 6 Folder 2 Historical sketch with list of productions, 1929-1938


Box 6 Folder 3 Notes on productions



Box 11 Folder 4 Scrapbook of programs and clippings, 1925-1937



Box 5 The Alchemist (an 8mm silent film of scenes from the 1947 production), 1947, 1 film reels



Box 10 Folder 13 Addresses


Box 10 Folder 14 Clippings


Box 10 Folder 15 Documents


Box 10 Folder 16 Notes


Box 10 Folder 17 Ads & programs for the Philolexian Society


Box 10 Folder 18 Photographs


Box 10 Folder 19 Printed material


Box 10 Folder 20 Programs for One Act Plays


Box 10 Folder 21 Programs for productions by other repertoires


Box 10 Folder 22 Rehearsal course reading lists and course guides


Box 10 Folder 23 Programs & flyers for productions by the rehearsal course (2 folders)


Box 10 Folder 24 Sides for unidentified plays


Box 10 Folder 25 Subscription requests, forms & cards


Box 10 Folder 26 Unidentified scores


Photographs of Productions



Box 2 Folder 1 Acres of Sky


Box 2 Folder 2 The Alchemist


Box 2 Folder 3 Bald Mountain


Box 2 Folder 4 The Barber Of Seville


Box 2 Folder 5 The Barrier


Box 2 Folder 6 Beaux Strategem, 1954


Box 2 Folder 7 Beaux Strategem, 1944


Box 2 Folder 8 The Beggar's Opera


Box 2 Folder 9 The Belle Of New York


Box 2 Folder 10 The Bing Bang Bush


Box 2 Folder 11 Bite the Dust


Box 2 Folder 12 The Boor


Box 2 Folder 13 Bushido


Box 2 Folder 14 The Butter and Egg Man


Box 2 Folder 15 Caesar And Antony


Box 2 Folder 16 Catherine de Medici


Box 2 Folder 17 Clarence


Box 2 Folder 18 The Coffee House


Box 2 Folder 19 Come Dow Daniel


Box 2 Folder 20 The Comedy of Errors



Box 3 Folder 1 The Conscious Lovers


Box 3 Folder 2 Defense


Box 3 Folder 3 The Dream


Box 3 Folder 4 A Drumlin Legend


Box 3 Folder 5 East of Tomorrow


Box 3 Folder 6 Eastward Ho!


Box 3 Folder 7 The Emperor Wants A Son


Box 3 Folder 8 Evangeline


Box 3 Folder 9 Fanfare


Box 3 Folder 10 Fire


Box 3 Folder 11 Fore


Box 3 Folder 12 The Fourth Degree


Box 3 Folder 13 Gallantry


Box 3 Folder 14 Giants In The Earth


Box 3 Folder 15 His Father's Boots


Box 3 Folder 16 Ho-Dan-Zo


Box 3 Folder 17 I Made Iron


Box 3 Folder 18 If Booth Had Missed


Box 3 Folder 19 The Imaginary Invalid


Box 3 Folder 20 Iphigenia In Tauris


Box 3 Folder 21 The Jealous Husband


Box 3 Folder 22 The Jealous Wife


Box 3 Folder 23 The Job


Box 3 Folder 24 The Last Five Minutes


Box 3 Folder 25 Let 'Em Eat Steak


Box 3 Folder 26 The Little Clay Cart


Box 3 Folder 27 Little Hell



Box 4 Folder 1 Love Is Enough


Box 4 Folder 2 Malady Of Love / Hello Out There


Box 4 Folder 3 Medea


Box 4 Folder 4 The Mother of Us All


Box 4 Folder 5 Napoleon's Uncle


Box 4 Folder 6 A New War To Pay Old Debts


Box 4 Folder 7 Nothing But The Truth


Box 4 Folder 8 Officer 666


Box 4 Folder 9 Only To Be Kind


Box 4 Folder 10 Panfilo and Lauretta


Box 4 Folder 11 The Peons


Box 4 Folder 12 Poor Eddy


Box 4 Folder 13 Premiere


Box 4 Folder 14 The Queen's Gambit


Box 4 Folder 15 Rehearsal For Spring


Box 4 Folder 16 Rising Tide


Box 4 Folder 17 Scored For Basses


Box 4 Folder 18 Set It In Troy


Box 4 Folder 19 The Seventh Omen


Box 4 Folder 20 She Put Out To Go


Box 4 Folder 21 Show Business


Box 4 Folder 22 The Silver Box


Box 4 Folder 23 Sound On The Goose


Box 4 Folder 24 Stratonice


Box 4 Folder 25 The Sun And I


Box 4 Folder 26 The Suspicious Husband


Box 4 Folder 27 "That Is To Say -"


Box 4 Folder 28 To Charlie With Love


Box 4 Folder 29 The Torchbearers


Box 4 Folder 30 A Tree On The Plains


Box 4 Folder 31 Twist the Lion's Tail


Box 4 Folder 32 The Two Misses


Box 4 Folder 33 The Unicorn



Box 5 Folder 1 The Village Barber


Box 5 Folder 2 The Waiting Game


Box 5 Folder 3 The Way Of the World


Box 5 Folder 4 The West Indian


Box 5 Folder 5 The Whipping Boy


Box 5 Folder 6 White Trash


Box 5 Folder 7 The Yellow Jacket


Box 5 Folder 8-9 Unidentified photographs



Box 11 Folder 1 Oversize unidentified photographs


Production Files



Box 6 Folder 4 Agony (script)


Box 6 Folder 5 Afternoon (prompt book & set design)


Box 6 Folder 6 All on a Summer's Day (scripts)


Box 6 Folder 7 And Be My Love (program)


Box 6 Folder 8 Anna Christie (script)


Box 6 Folder 9 Artist (script)


Box 6 Folder 10 As You Like It (prompt book & set design)


Box 6 Folder 11 Baker's Dozen (script)


Box 6 Folder 12 Catherine De Medici (script)


Box 6 Folder 13 Clari (prompt book, flyers, & programs)


Box 6 Folder 14 Conflict (script)


Box 6 Folder 15 The Contrast (programs, notices & flyers)


Box 6 Folder 16-17 Discovery (script, 2 folders)


Box 6 Folder 18 Discovery (prompt book, bound)


Box 6 Folder 19 Discovery (notices & flyers)


Box 6 Folder 20 Dover Road (script)



Box 7 Folder 1 The Duenna (prompt book)


Box 7 Folder 2 The Duenna (programs & flyers)


Box 7 Folder 3 The Duenna (score) Engaged (prompt book & set design)


Box 7 Folder 4 Engaged (prompt book and set designs)


Box 7 Folder 5 Everybody's Husband (prompt book & set design)


Box 7 Folder 6 Everyman (prompt book)


Box 7 Folder 7 The Father of an Only Child (programs & notices)


Box 7 Folder 8 For Distinguished Service (script)


Box 7 Folder 9 Gammer Gurton's Needle (prompt book)


Box 7 Folder 10 The Forest Rose (scripts)


Box 7 Folder 11 The Forest Rose (notes)


Box 7 Folder 12 The Forest Rose (prompt book)


Box 7 Folder 13 The Forest Rose (program and photograph)


Box 7 Folder 14 The Forest Rose (scores)



Box 11 Folder 2 The Forest Rose (oversize scores)



Box 7 Folder 15 Fulgens and Lucrece (prompt book & related material)


Box 7 Folder 16 Fulgens and Lucrece (programs & flyers)


Box 7 Folder 17 Fulgens and Lucrece (scores)



Box 11 Folder 3 Fulgens and Lucrece (oversize scores)



Box 7 Folder 18 Ghosts (prompt book)


Box 7 Folder 19 Hamlet (program)


Box 7 Folder 20 Happy Journey (prompt book & set design)


Box 7 Folder 21 Harbor of Lost Ships (scripts)


Box 7 Folder 22 House of Cards (scripts)



Box 8 Folder 1 The Importance of Being Earnest (prompt book)


Box 8 Folder 2 The Importance of Being Earnest (programs & flyers)


Box 8 Folder 3 Iphigenia in Tauris (program)


Box 8 Folder 4 John Gabriel Borkman (prompt book & set design)


Box 8 Folder 5 Journey's End (script)


Box 8 Folder 6 King Lear (program & flyer)


Box 8 Folder 7 The Knights of the Burning Pestle (scripts)


Box 8 Folder 8 Lady Anne (script)


Box 8 Folder 9 The Learned Ladies (scripts, 3 folders)


Box 8 Folder 10 The Learned Ladies (programs & flyers)


Box 8 Folder 11 The Learned Ladies (photographs)


Box 8 Folder 12 The Little Stone House (prompt book & set design)


Box 8 Folder 13 The London Merchant (script)


Box 8 Folder 14 The Long Christmas Dinner (prompt book & set design)


Box 8 Folder 15 Lot's Wife (prompt book)


Box 8 Folder 16 Love for Love (program)


Box 8 Folder 17 Love in a Village (programs)


Box 8 Folder 18 Love in a Village (scores)


Box 8 Folder 19 Macbeth (programs & flyers)


Box 8 Folder 20 The Man on the Kerb / Curb (prompt book)


Box 8 Folder 21 A Man without Money (programs)



Box 1 Folder 1 Man Without Money (photostatic copy of the manuscript of the play)



Box 8 Folder 22 Marion (programs, flyers & notices)


Box 8 Folder 23 Marriage Has Been Arranged (script)


Box 8 Folder 24 Marriage Proposal (script)


Box 8 Folder 25 Marriage Proposal (prompt book & set design)


Box 8 Folder 26 Matter of Husbands (script)


Box 8 Folder 27 The Merry Wives of Windsor (advertisements & flyers)


Box 8 Folder 28 The Merry Wives of Windsor (program)


Box 8 Folder 29 A Midsummer Night's Dream (programs)



Box 9 Folder 1 "Moliere" "Doctor" & "Twelfth Night" (photographs)


Box 9 Folder 2 Mourning Becomes Electra (script fragment, set design & notes)


Box 9 Folder 3 Musclebound, the Sophomore Show (program)


Box 9 Folder 4 New and Excellent and Merry Farce of the Cuvier (script)


Box 9 Folder 5 Oh Freedom (script)


Box 9 Folder 6 One Act Plays (ads, flyers, programs & tickets)


Box 9 Folder 7 Othello (program & flyer)


Box 9 Folder 8 Overtones (script)


Box 9 Folder 9 Physician in Spite of Himself (prompt book & set design)


Box 9 Folder 10 Pierre Patelin (script)


Box 9 Folder 11 Pierre Patelin (prompt book)


Box 9 Folder 12 Poor Aubrey (script)


Box 9 Folder 13 Predicament (script)


Box 9 Folder 14 Princess Tenderheart (script)


Box 9 Folder 15 Pygmalion and Galatea (prompt book, set design & programs)


Box 9 Folder 16 The Rivals (prompt book & program)


Box 9 Folder 17 The Romancers (script)


Box 9 Folder 18 The Romancers (prompt book & set design)


Box 9 Folder 19 Romeo and Juliet (prompt book & program)


Box 9 Folder 20 School for Scandal (prompt book)


Box 9 Folder 21 The Seagull (prompt book & set design)


Box 9 Folder 22 The Seagull (costume designs)


Box 9 Folder 23 The Self (program)


Box 9 Folder 24 Sister's Tragedy (script)


Box 9 Folder 25 Superstition (program)


Box 9 Folder 26 "Tarkington" and "Rostand" (photographs)


Box 9 Folder 27 The Tempest (program)


Box 9 Folder 28 The Tempest (photographs)


Box 9 Folder 29 The Trojan Women (script)


Box 9 Folder 30 The Trojan Women (prompt book)


Box 9 Folder 31 The Trojan Women (sides 1)



Box 10 Folder 1 The Trojan Women (sides 2)


Box 10 Folder 2 The Trojan Women (set designs & related manuscripts)


Box 10 Folder 3 The Trojan Women (photographs)


Box 10 Folder 4 The Trysting Place (script)


Box 10 Folder 5 The Trysting Place (prompt book, set design & program fragment)


Box 10 Folder 6 Twelfth Night (prompt book)


Box 10 Folder 7 Two Gentlemen of the Bench (scripts)


Box 10 Folder 8 Vindication (script)


Box 10 Folder 9 The Way of the World (prompt book & set design)


Box 10 Folder 10 When the Whirlwind Blows (prompt book & set design)


Box 10 Folder 11 A Winter's Tale (programs & set design)


Box 10 Folder 12 Unknown plays (scripts)


Programs and Playbills

The Gertrude K. Spencer Collection of Theatrical Posters from Columbia University Productions. Presented to The Grander Matthews Dramatic Museum of Columbia University in February, 1971 by Mr. Louis Spencer, in memory of his wife, Gertrude K. Spencer.



Box 1 Folder 2 Programs, 1893-1935


Box 1 Folder 3 Programs, 1936-1944


Box 1 Folder 4 Programs, 1945-1950


Box 1 Folder 5 Programs, 1951-1958



Box Flat Box 723 Folder 1 Playbills, 1927-1929


Superstition, 1927 March 5


Clari or The Maid of Milan, 1927 April 23


His Father's Boots, 1928 December 6


Bald Mountain, 1929 February 28


Love Is Enough, 1929 March 15


Royal Convicts, The Shadow of Rasputin, Russia in Revolt, 1929 April 25


The Tempest, 1929 May 2-4


Lady Windermere's Fan, 1929 October 12


Man Without Money or News of a Night, 1929 November 2



Box Flat Box 724 Folder 1 Playbills, 1930-1935


King Lear, 1930 May 2-3


Defense, 1930 May 7-10


Romeo and Juliet, 1930 October 25


The Job, 1930 November 17


"That Is to Say…", 1931 January 12


Merry Wives of Windsor, 1931 March 7


Hamlet, 1931 April 23-25


Show Business, 1931 April 27


Street Fiddler, 1931 November 16


Birth, 1932 January 21


Marion, or the Hero of Lake George, 1932 March 2


All the King's Horses, 1932 March 7


Fanfare, 1932 August 2 and October 17


Picnic, 1932 October 23


Love In a Village, 1933 November


The Rivals, 1934 April 20


The Importance of Being Earnest, 1934 October 13


Dearly Beloved, 1934 October 22


A Program of One-Act Plays, 1935 May 25


Box Flat Box 724 Folder 2 Playbills, 1936-1939


Macbeth, 1936 May 3


The Learned Ladies, 1936 December 7


The Forest Rose, 1937 March 15


The Brink of Glory, 1937 April 26


The Beaux Stratagem, 1937 October 25


The Return of the Soldier, 1937 November 29


I Made Iron, 1938 February 14


The Contrast, 1938 March 14


The Comedy of Errors, 1938 April 25


Catherine de Medici, 1938 November 28


Two Too Many, 1939 February 13


Love for Love, 1939 March 27


And Be My Love, 1938 May 8


The Alchemist, 1939 October 26


Box Flat Box 724 Folder 3 Playbills, 1940-1945


Mr. Pepys, 1940 February 22


Jonah and the Whale, 1940 April 1


Every-Guy, 1940 May 6


The Two Misers, 12/8/1940


Caesar and Antony, 1940 December 9


Premiere, 1941 March 3


Taming of the Shrew, 1941 March 31


Paul Bunyan, 1941 May 5


Beaux Strategem, 1941 August 7


Witch-Hunt, 1941 October 31


Senior Prom, 1941 November 24


The Drunkard, 1941 December 18


The Music Master, 1942 February 16


Iphigenia in Tauris, 1942 March 23


The Burglar's Opera, 1942 May 4


Fire, 1942 November 2


The Village Barber, 1942 December 16


Othello, 1942 December 16


Only To Be Kind, 1943 February 10


"...And Two At Bedtime", 1943 March 24


A Tree On The Plains, 1943 May 5


Set It In Troy, 1943 November 3


Medea, 1944 February 16


Three Lights In Corbeville, 1944 March 29


Pieces Of Eight, 1944 May 10


Beaux Strategem, 1944 November 1


The Jealous Husband, 1944 December 13


East of Tomorrow, 1945 February 14


Napoleon's Uncle, 1945 March 21


The Scarecrow, 1945 May 9


Where Angels Fear, 1945 November 7


The Imaginary Invalid, 1945 December 5


Dark of the Moon, circa 1945


Antigone & The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, circa 1945



Box Flat Box 723 Folder 2 Playbills, 1946-1949


The Barber of Seville, 1946 February 13


Little Hell, 1946 April 3


The Medium, 1946 May 8


The Alchemist, 1946 November 14


Stratonice and the Man with the Terrible Temper, 1947 February 6


Murder in the Cathedral, 1947 March


Twist The Lion's Tail, 1947 March 20


Eastward Ho, 1947 October 25


The Waiting Game, 1947 December 2


The Torch Bearers, 1948 January 15


Murder In The Cathedral, 1948 February 26


The Bing Bang Bush, 1948 March 3


Evangeline, 1948 May 5


The Coffee House, 1948 Summer


The Belle Of New York, 1948 December 1


The Edge Of Perfect, 1948 December 14


The Little Clay Cart, 1949 February 28


Bite The Dust, 1949 March 30


A Drumlin Legend, 1949 May 9


The Whipping Boy, 1949 October 26


The City-Madam, 1949 November 30


Much Ado About Nothing, 1949 December 14



Box Flat Box 724 Folder 4 Playbills, 1950-1954


The Barrier, 1950 January 18


Rising Tide, 1950 March 15


The Emperor Wants A Son, 1950 May 11


She Put Out To Go, 1950 October 25


The Way Of The World, 1950 December 4


The Unicorn, 1951 February 14


Giants In The Earth, 1951 March 28


Babe In The Woods, 1951 April 25


Come Down Daniel, 1951 May 9


Physician In Spite Of Himself, 1951 October 10


Nothing But The Truth, 1951 October 24


The Comedy Of Errors, 1951 December 5


The Fourth Degree, 1952 March 19


Acres Of Sky, 1952 May 7


Clarence, 1952 October 22


To Charlie With Love, 1952 December 10


Poor Eddy, 1953 March 11


The Shape Of Things, 1953 April 29


The West Indian, 1953 May 6


Uncle Vanya, 1953 October


Sound On The Goose, 1953 November 20


(Bicentennial revival of) The Beaux Strategem / The Conscious Lovers / The Beggar's Opera / The Suspicious Husband, 1954 February 10


A New Way To Pay Old Debts, 1954 November 10



Box Flat Box 723 Folder 3 Playbills, 1955-1958


The Peons, 1955 February 9


The Servant Of Two Masters, 1955 March 16


The Queen's Gambit, 1955 May 4


Officer 666, 1955 November 16


The Seventh Omen, 1956 February 15


The Jealous Wife, 1956 April 11


Pantaloon, 1956 May 17


The Dream, 1956 November 28


The Last Five Minutes, 1957 February 13


The Passionate Shepherd, 1957 April 3


Panfilo and Lauretta, 1957 May 9


Eastward Ho!, 1957 November 21


Rehearsal For Spring, 1958 February 13


Let 'Em Eat Steak, 1958 May 8


Box Flat Box 723 Folder 4 Playbills, undated, circa 1927-1936


A Group of One-Act Plays & Songs, 1927 August 13


A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1931 October 31


Blue Water, 1932 January 11


Marion, or The Hero of Lake George, 1932 April 22


Prima Donna, 1932 April 25


Othello, 1933 May 5


The Duenna, 1934 November 24


Fulgens and Lucrece, 1935 January 11


Clari or The Maid of Milan, 1935 February 16


The Forest Rose, 1935 March 5


The Learned Ladies, undated