48 photographs depicting predominantly black vaudeville acts, most of them unidentified, many of them inscribed to Bonnie and Semoura. Includes photographs of chorus girls, minstrels, and cross dressers; identified photographs are of Phil Black, Blain...
Description:
Bonnie and Semoura Clark, black vaudevillians who toured with the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). The TOBA provided segregated entertainment for blacks in the South and Midwest. The Clarks act was probably comical, relying in part on cross ...
48 photographs depicting predominantly black vaudeville acts, most of them unidentified, many of them inscribed to Bonnie and Semoura. Includes photographs of chorus girls, minstrels, and cross dressers; identified photographs are of Phil Black, Blain...
Description:
Bonnie and Semoura Clark, black vaudevillians who toured with the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). The TOBA provided segregated entertainment for blacks in the South and Midwest. The Clarks act was probably comical, relying in part on cross ...
The collection consists of correspondence, scripts, contracts, photographs, a production program, press clippings and other materials documenting the script development and production history of John Charles Brownell's play, Mississippi Rainbow. Corr...
Description:
John Charles Brownell was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1877. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York City, and worked as a professional actor and scenario editor for film companies before undertaking a playwrighting career. ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Brownell, John Charles., Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977., Finn, Bennet R., Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969., Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham., Kondolf, George., McElhany, Thomas J., Sheil, Frank J., Ward, Theodore, 1902-1983., Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.), Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.). Negro Unit., Federal Theatre Project (New York, N.Y.), Playhouse Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio), Richard J. Madden Play Service., Samuel French, Inc., and United States. Works Progress Administration.
Subject (Topic):
African American actors, African American theater, Dramatists, American, Literary agents, Theater, Production and direction, and Theatrical producers and directors
