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Princeton Playgoers, Inc. records

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Princeton Playgoers, Inc.

Princeton Playgoers, Inc. was a theater production company formed in 1942, during the wartime period when the engagements of Triangle Club were limited. Princeton Playgoers, Inc. leased McCarter Theatre for the summer of 1942, and staged an impressively busy string of shows, the highlight of which was a weeklong production of Othello starring Paul Robeson. Tickets for the summer theater series were sold on a subscription basis and many of the shows were sold out. The following year McCarter ceased to operate as a theatrical venue, and did not reopen until 1945. Unlike Triangle Club or other Princeton theatre organizations, PPI's productions stage shows featured professional actors and directors, rather than students.

Consists of financial records, correspondence, records of ticket sales, advertisements, contracts, and other materials documenting the planning and production of plays at McCarter Theatre in the summer of 1942.

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Container list created by Eleanor Wright '14 in December 2011 and finding aid updated by Christie Peterson in February 2012.

Publisher
University Archives
Finding Aid Author
Christie Peterson
Finding Aid Date
2007
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Series 1: Princeton Playgoers, Inc. Records, 1941-1942 consists of financial records, correspondence, records of ticket sales, advertisements, contracts, and other materials documenting the planning and production of plays at McCarter Theatre.

Arrangement

The contents of Series 1: Princeton Playgoers, Inc. Records, 1941-1942 remain in the original order in which they were received in the archives. They are mostly organized in alphabetical order by subject.

Physical Description

4 boxes

Incoming Correspondences, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Actors' Fund of America, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Addresses - Miscellaneous, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Air-Conditioning, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Army, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Advertising, 1942 June 17. 1 box.
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1 box

Brandt and Brandt, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Briscoe and Goldsmith, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Lyman Brown, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Budget, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Box Office Statements, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

By-Laws of the Princeton Playgoers, Incorporated, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Casting A-Z, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Century Play Company, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Charge Slips, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

"The Corn is Green", Undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Costumes, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Contracts, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Designer, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Duenna - Two Scripts - Sides, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

"The Duenna", 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Duplicate Deposit Slips, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

"Elizabeth the Queen", 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Equity, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

John Fearnley, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Federal Old Age Taxes, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Gross Chart - Princeton, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Insurance Policy, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Sol Jacobson, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Kind Lady, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Mailing Permit, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Materials, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

McCarter Theatre Lease, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Maynard Morris, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

William Morris, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

"Othello", 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Norris Houghton - Personal, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

"Old Acquaintance", 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Publicity -- Program Copy Notes, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Publicity -- Press List, Complimentary Seats Mailing, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Publicity -- Plays, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Publicity -- Press Releases, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Publicity, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Play Lists, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Program, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Personnel, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Local Personnel, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

B.F. Bunn, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Requisitions, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Seating Plans, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Station Wagon, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Subscriptions, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Susan and God, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Tickets, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

"Tonight at 8:30", 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Trucking and Storage, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Gross Chart - Westport Country Playhouse - Season of 1941, Incorporated, 1941. 1 box.
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1 box

What Every Woman Knows, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Dorothy Willard, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

McCarter Theatre - Set of Programs, Princetonian Clippings, 1942 Summer. 1 box.
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1 box

Ticket Orders and Other Correspondence, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence and Programs, 1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Box Office Records and Seating Plans, Undated. 1 box.
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1 box

Subscription Forms, Subscription Cards, Ticket Envelopes, Petty Cash Slips, and Rubber Stamps, 1941-1942. 1 box.
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1 box

Print, Suggest