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Performing Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

Marguerite Carney Leahy letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2668
Abstract

Marguerite Carney Leahy was a blind singer and radio performer. Collection includes fan mail, telegrams, and personal correspondence.

Dates: 1930

Oral history interview with Sergiu Luca

 Collection
Identifier: SR 11080
Abstract

Oral history interview with Sergiu Luca conducted by Jim Strassmaier from July 20 to August 17, 2005. Luca was a Romanian-born American violinist.

Dates: 2005 July 20-August 17

Lewis Moomaw photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 726
Abstract

Collection of 25 black and white stills and on-set photographs from some of Lewis H. Moomaw's films. Moomaw (1889-1980) was a motion picture producer and director whose theatrical films, shot mostly in the Pacific Northwest, gained national distribution and praise during the 1920s.

Dates: 1918-1970

Oral history interview with Edris Morrison

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9539
Abstract

Oral history interview with Edris Morrison conducted by Roberta Watts on January 18, 1978. Morrison discusses the history of live theater in Portland, Oregon, and her involvement with the Portland Civic Theatre.

Dates: 1978 January 18

Materials relating to Music Box Theater burlesque controversy

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1002
Abstract Three letters, a summons, a typescript of a telegram, and an essay relating to opposition to a burlesque act at the Music Box Theater in Portland, Oregon, in 1933. Protests and the subsequent threat of legal action compelled the theater's manager to cancel the act, and Portland city government passed an ordinance to prohibit theatrical performances deemed inappropriate. The letters, summons, and typescript telegram were gathered by the essay's author, radio and television broadcaster Vere...
Dates: 1933 April-May; circa 1973

Only the brave

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2829
Abstract

Typescript screenplay for the movie "Flames" (working title: "Only the Brave") filmed in Portland, Oregon, 1926, and directed by Lewis Moomaw. Action involves a rescue from a forest fire.

Dates: circa 1926

Cartoon for the Orpheum Theatre

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5359
Abstract

Pen and ink cartoon of a bird announcing "They're coming" to a fan in a grandstand. Note on back indicates it was published in the Daily News (Portland, Or.).

Dates: circa 1920-1929

Performing Arts History Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 314
Abstract

Records of a committee organized by the Oregon Historical Society around 1966 to seek out information and materials documenting performing arts in the state. The collection consists primarily of meeting minutes from 1966-1976 and attached correspondence and other documents, and also includes two papers written for seminars at Lewis and Clark College in 1966 and 1968, concerning music history in Oregon.

Dates: 1966-1976

Portland Civic Auditorium plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3063
Abstract

Collection includes a design, 3 blueprint plans on 3 sheets, for the Portland Civic Auditorium at SW 3rd Ave. and SW Clay St. in Portland, Oregon, 1913. This design was never implemented.

Dates: 1913

Portland Civic Auditorium plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3124
Abstract

Collection includes 4 blueprint plans and sections on 3 sheets of the Portland Civic Auditorium at SW 3rd Ave. and SW Clay St. in Portland, Oregon. Plans are by the New York firm of Freelander & Seymour, which won the design competition for the auditorium, now known as Keller Auditorium, in 1917.

Dates: 1915