Finding Aid for Yolande Oglesby Theater Programs and Kitty Cheatham Papers, 1900-1970 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

By Nolan Vallier

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Biographical Note

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Kitty Cheatham Photographs and Sheet Music, ca. 1900-1933

Contains "Spring Greeting" for voice and piano with music by Kitty Cheatam and words by Mary Baker Eddy; and two photographs of Kitty Cheatam

Folder 2: Yolande Perkins Oglesby Personal Papers and School Programs, ca. 1928-1933

Folder 3: Boston, Colonial Theatre Programs, 1922-1934

Of Note: Jerome Kern's "Sally," 1922; Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's "Sweet Adeline," 1930; Richard Roger's and Lorenz Hart's "Ed Wynn," 1930; Zieglfeld Follies, "The American Girl," 1931; Jerome Kern's "Roberta," 1934; Fred Astaire in "The Band Wagon Revue," 1934; Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," 1934.

Folder 4: Boston, Copley Theatre Programs, 1922-1932

Folder 5: Boston, Hollis Street Theatre Programs, 1929-1933

Of Note: Dubose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward's "Porgy," 1929; Uday Shankar program of dance, 1933.

Folder 6: Boston, Majestic Theatre Programs, 1929-1931

Of Note: Victor Herbert's "Mlle. Modiste," 1930.

Folder 7: Boston, Opera House Programs, 1934

Of Note: Col. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1934.

Folder 8: Boston, Plymouth Theatre Programs, 1930-1933

Of Note: Ethel Barrymore in "The School for Scandal," ca. 1925.

Folder 9: Boston, Sam S. Schubert Theatre Programs, 1930-1934

Of Note: Oscar Hammerstein and Sigmund Romberg's "The New Moon," 1930; Irving Berlin's "Face the Music," 1932; Lew Brown's "Calling All Stars," 1934.

Folder 10: Boston, Symphony Hall Programs, 1921-1935

Of Note: Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Programs featuring: Fritz Kreisler, violin, 1929; Serge Rachmaninoff, piano, 1931; Georges Laurent, 1933; Jascha Heifetz, 1934; Arthur Fiedler conducting Hector Berlioz, 1934.

Folder 11: Boston, Tremont Theatre Programs, 1930-1931

Of Note: George M. Cohan in "The Tavern," 1930; George M. Cohan's "Friendship," 1931.

Folder 12: Boston, Various Theatre Programs, 1921-1934

Of Note: Ford Hall Forum, featuring lecture concert series Soap Box Forum - lectures include Serwood Eddy, "Russia Today: what Th NRA can learn from the U.S.S.R.," Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) "The Author of 'I Saw Hitler' Evaluates 'My Battle'," Prof. Friedrich Schoenemann "Why I believe in the Hitler Government," 1934.

Folder 13: Boston, Ye Wilber Theatre Programs, 1930-1932

Of Note: Ethel Barrymore in "The Love Duel," 1930; Walter Hampden in "Richelieu," 1930.

Folder 14: Boston Journals, The Boston Stage Vol. 1, No. 2, October 10, 1930

Folder 15: Boston Journals, Boston Theatre Magazine, 1933-1934

Folder 16: Chicago, A. H. Woods Theatre Programs, 1918-1919

Of Note: Color Program Cover Design.

Folder 17: Chicago, Blackstone Theatre Programs, 1917-1970

Of Note: Color Program Cover Design.

Folder 18: Chicago, Cinestage Theatre Programs, 1958-1963

Folder 19: Chicago, Civic Theatre Program, 1945

Of Note: Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie" Opening Season, 1945.

Folder 20: Chicago, Colonial Theatre Programs, 1919-1920

Of Note: Ziegfeld Follies 12 Edition, featuring music by Louis A. Hirsch and Dave Stamper with Interpolations by Irving Berlin and Victor Jacobi, performers include Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Allyn King, Frank Carter, and W.C. Fields, 1919; Ziegfeld Follies 13th Edition, featuring music of Irving Berlin, Gene Buck, Rennold Wolf and Dave Stamper with Ballet by Victor Herbert, performers include Eddie Cantor, Bert Williams, Johnny Dooley, Eddie Dowling, 1920.

Folder 21: Chicago, Cort Theatre Programs, 1920-1921

Of Note: Color Program Cover Designs.

Folder 22: Chicago, Erlanger Theatre Programs, 1945-1951

Of Note: Oscar Hammerstein and Georges Bizet "Carmen Jones," 1945; Paul Robeson in "Othello," 1945; Ethel Waters in "The Member of the Wedding," 1951.

Folder 23: Chicago, Garrick Theatre Programs, 1917-1921

Of Note: "Passing Show of 1917," music by Sigmund Romberg and Otto Motzan, 1917; Lionel Barrymore in "The Copperhead," 1918.

Folder 24: Chicago, Grand Opera House Programs, ca. 1918-1937

Of Note: George M. Cohan's "A Prince There Was," 1919. Color Program Cover Designs.

Folder 25: Chicago, Harris Theatre Program, 1957

Folder 26: Chicago, Illinois Theatre Programs, 1919-1920

Of Note: Ed. Wynn's "Ed Wynn Carnival," 1920.

Folder 27: Chicago, Olympic Theatre Programs, 1918-1919

Folder 28: Chicago, Orchestra Hall Programs, 1918-1947

Of Note: Jascha Heifetz, violin recital, 1918.

Folder 29: Chicago, Powers Theatre Programs, 1917-1920

Of Note: Ethel Barrymore in "The Off Chance," 1919; Ethel Barrymore in "Declassee," 1920. Color Program Cover Designs.

Folder 30: Chicago, Schubert Princess Theatre Programs, 1919-1970

Of Note: Richard Bennett in Eugene O'Neil's "Beyond the Horizon," 1920; Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein's "South Pacific, 1951; Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot's "Hair," 1970.

Folder 31: Chicago, Studebaker Theatre Programs, 1917-1921

Of Note: Jerome Kern's "Love O' Mike," 1917; Leslie Stuart and Paul Rubens' "Florodora," 1921. Color Program Cover Designs.

Folder 32: Chicago, Various Theatre Programs, 1918-1963

Of Note: Victor Herbert's "The Red Mill," 1947.

Folder 33: Denver, Elitch Theatre Program, 1933

Folder 34: Dublin, Abbey Theatre Program, 1928

Folder 35: Edinburgh, Ross Bandstand Program, 1938

Folder 36: London, Various Theatre Programs, 1917- 1949

Folder 37: New York, Adelphi Theatre Programs, 1945-1947

Of Note: Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town," 1945; Franz Steininger's adaptation of "Tchaikovsky Music in My Heart," 1947.

Folder 38: New York, Alvin Theatre Programs, 1931-1957

Of Note: George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's "Girl Crazy," 1931; George M. Cohan in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "I'd Rather Be Right," 1937; Gertrude Lawrence in Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill's "Lady in the Dark," 1941.

Folder 39: New York, Belasco Theatre Programs, 1918-1954

Of Note: Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman's "The Solid Gold Cadillac," 1954.

Folder 40: New York, Bijou Theatre Programs, 1918-1957

Folder 41: New York, Biltmore Theatre Programs, 1947-1951

Of Note: Louis O. Coxe and Anthony B. Farrell's "Billy Budd," 1951.

Folder 42: New York, Booth Theatre Programs, 1918-1949

Of Note: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's "You Can't Take it With You," 1937. Color Program Cover Designs.

Folder 43: New York, Broadburst Theatre Programs, 1919-1938

Folder 44: New York, Broadway Theatre Programs, 1931-1951

Of Note: Cole Porter's "The New Yorkers," 1931; Frank Loesser's "Where's Charley?" 1951.

Folder 45: New York, Carnegie Hall Programs, 1935-1956

Of Note: Artur Schnabel and Hans Lange recitals, 1935; Moriz Rosenthal and Yehudi Menuhin recitals, 1938; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra and Jascha Heifetz and Joseph Schuster recital, 1938; Ted Sawn Dancers, 1940; Egon Petri recital, 1942; Charles Muench conducting the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, 1946; Charles Muench conducting the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, 1947.

Folder 46: New York, Center Theatre Programs, 1934-1949

Of Note: Johann Strauss and Moss Hart's "The Great Waltz" 1934; George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's "The American Way," 1939.

Folder 47: New York, Charles Dillingham's Globe Theatre Program, 1932

Of Note: Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's "The Cat and the Fiddle," 1932.

Folder 48: New York, Coronet Theatre Programs, 1950-1957

Folder 49: New York, Cort Theatre Programs, 1933-1946

Of Note: Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan," 1946.

Folder 50: New York, Empire Theatre Programs, 1932-1952

Of Note: Moliere's "The School for Husbands," with music by Edmond W. Rickett, 1933.

Folder 51: New York, Ethel Barrymore Theatre Programs, 1936-1952

Of Note: Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's "Knickerbocker Holiday," 1938; Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Telephone," and "The Medium," 1947.

Folder 52: New York, Forty-Fourth Street Theatre Programs, 1931-1942

Of Note: Richard Addensell's "The Good Companion's," 1931; Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's "Music in the Air," 1933; Johann Strauss's "Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus)," 1942.

Folder 53: New York, Forty-Sixth Street Theatre Programs, 1933-1940

Of Note: Cole Porter's "Du Barry Was a Lady," 1940.

Folder 54: New York, Forty-Eighth Street Theatre Programs, 1919-1952

Folder 55: New York, Guild Theatre Programs, 1932-1939

Of Note: George M. Cohan in Eugene O'Neil's "Ah, Wilderness!" 1933; Devi Dja Balinese and Javanese Dancing with Gamelan, 1939.

Folder 56: New York, Helen Hayes Theatre Program, 1959

Of Note: Helen Hayes in Eugene O'Neil's "Touch of the Poet," 1959.

Folder 57: New York, Henry Miller's Theatre Programs, 1932-1955

Folder 58: New York, Hudson Theatre Programs, 1919-1946

Folder 59: New York, Imperial Theater Programs, 1932-1957

Of Note: Ed Wynn's "Laugh Parade," music by Harry Warren, 1932; George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's "Let 'Em Eat Cake," 1933;  "Song of Norway," Music by Edvard Grieg adapted by Robert Wright, George Forrest, and Arthur Kay, 1945; Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella," 1957.

Folder 60: New York, Longacre Theatre Programs, 1938-1959

Of Note: Jean Anouilh's "The Lark" starring Brois Karloff and Christopher Plummer, 1956.

Folder 61: New York, Lyceum Theatre Programs, 1942-1951

Of Note: John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman's "The Late George Apley," 1945.

Folder 62: New York, Majestic Theatre Programs, 1930-1959

Of Note: Otto Harbach and Sigmund Romberg's "Nina Rosa," 1930; Lew Brown and Ray Henderson's "Strike Me Pink," 1933; Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man," 1959.

Folder 63: New York, Martin Beck Theatre Programs, 1943-1957

Of Note: Tennesse Williams' "The Rose Tattoo," 1951; Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," 1957.