Performing Arts
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
Marguerite Carney Leahy letters
Marguerite Carney Leahy was a blind singer and radio performer. Collection includes fan mail, telegrams, and personal correspondence.
Oral history interview with Sergiu Luca
Oral history interview with Sergiu Luca conducted by Jim Strassmaier from July 20 to August 17, 2005. Luca was a Romanian-born American violinist.
Lewis Moomaw photographic collection
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.
Oral history interview with Edris Morrison
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.
Materials relating to Music Box Theater burlesque controversy
Only the brave
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.
Cartoon for the Orpheum Theatre
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.).
Performing Arts History Committee records
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.
Portland Civic Auditorium plans
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.
Portland Civic Auditorium plans
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.