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1. Orpheum Theatre Program, April 20, 1919
- Creator:
- Orpheum Theatre
- Date Created:
- 1919-04-20
- Description:
- Orpheum Theatre program listing events from the week of April 20, 1919. Events include a Musical Program and a Concert Program for the Orpheum Travel Weekly with the Orpheum Theatre Orchestra directed by Albert Rudd; Kinograms, the visual news of all the world; the Mizuma Japs, an oriental fantasy; Jennings and Mack in "The Camouflage Taxi"; Joseph E. Bernhard presenting "Who Is She?" a comedy playlet by Willard Mack; Edwin George in A Comedy of Errors; Martin Beck presenting The Marion Morgan Dancers, in a dance drama in the time of Attila and the Huns; Buster Santos and Jacque Hays, the girls with the funny figures in "The Health Hunters"; "Birds of a Feather," a pantomimical fantasy of the forest with Bert Ford and Pauline Price; Orpheum Travel Weekly, round the world with the Orpheum Circuit's moving picture photographer. Also advertisements, with drawings or photographs, and a glued newspaper clipping.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Programs
2. Swords and Plowshares playbill
- Creator:
- Schwartz, Louis L. (author); Civic Players of Minneapolis (producers)
- Date Created:
- 1919
- Description:
- The Civic Players of Minneapolis were a community theater group that organized in March 1918. Their stated purpose was "to develop the drama on a broad, democratic basis and to make Minneapolis not so much a city of theaters as a community with a playhouse." In 1919, in the wake of WWI, they performed a historical pageant entitled "Swords and Plowshares" on the steps of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The pageant was intended to theatrically illustrate history's greatest wars and to point out the "indisputable fact ... that the ideal of Democracy has been steadily struggling upward through the years of violence and stress." To highlight the success of democracy and civilization at the local level the players included the names and images of notable Minneapolis institutions, landmarks, and businesses in the front and back of their playbill. The playbill provides insight into what the people of early twentieth-century Minneapolis perceived to be their city's finest qualities and is a record of the city's most important buildings and businesses following World War I.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Programs
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