Louis Napoleon Parker papers, 1869-1943

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Series IV: Other Professional Work, 1907-1937

This series contains printed material of various genres produced by or used by Parker, including the financial records of three productions and the property plot for one play, sheet music, typescripts of plays in French, and newspaper clippings.



Box 22 Folder 1 Financial records: "Balance Sheet, Bury, Warwick," 1907 Disraeli, 1937, 1907, 1937


Box 22 Folder 2 "Louis N. Parker's Plays Available for the Screen,", undated


Box 22 Folder 3 Lourdes : Property plot, undated, and Library of Congress registration card,, 1917


Subseries IV.1: Sheet music, undated

This sub-series includes three pieces of music by Parker; "Hunting Song" andA Pageant Danceare in fair condition; one untitled piece is in poor condition, and so is fragmentary.


Box 22 Folder 4 "Hunting Song,", undated



Mapcase 14-L-1 A Pagent Dance (oversized), undated



Box 22 Folder 6 Untitled (had been loosely placed in One Act Plays, I.)


Subseries IV.2: Theater-related Materials, undated, 1918

Included here are typescripts of French plays by Marguerite Allotte de la Fuÿe and Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau, which Parker may have intended to translate at some point. There is also a large file of newspaper clippings related to the 1918 libel suit brought by the actress and dancer Maud Allan against Noel Pemberton Billings, regarding public accusations made about Allan's sexual orientation and political allegiances arising from her appearance in a London production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé. This file contains an unsigned, undated typed article or speech about the trial and its outcome, possibly authored by Parker.


Box 22 Folder 7 de la Fuÿe, Marguerite Allotte. Bethsabee , undated


Box 22 Folder 8 Sardou, Victorien and Emile Moreau. Mdme Tallien , undated


Box 22 Folder 9 Noel Pemberton Billings libel trial file, 1918