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Scene from "Importance of Being Earnest"

Date: 02 07 1929
Description: Scene from the play "Importance of Being Earnest" at the Unversity Theater, pre-prom play.
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Scene from "Importance of Being Earnest"

Date: 02 07 1929
Description: Scene from play "Importance of Being Earnest" at the Unversity Theater, pre-prom play.
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Scene from "The Cradle Song"

Date: 01 11 1929
Description: Actresses in nuns' habit costumes from the University of Wisconsin theatre production "The Cradle Song" gather around one nun holding an infant.
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Scene from "The Cradle Song"

Date: 01 12 1929
Description: Scene from the University of Wisconsin theatre production "The Cradle Song."
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Madison Theatre Guild Play at West High School

Date: 04 05 1947
Description: Madison Theatre Guild play on stage at West High School, 30 Ash Street, showing stage setting for "Mr. and Mrs. North," with seven actors and three actress...
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Madison Theatre Guild Play at West High School

Date: 04 05 1947
Description: Madison Theatre Guild play on stage at West High School, 30 Ash Street, showing stage setting for "Mr. and Mrs. North," with eight actors and four actresse...
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Madison Theatre Guild Actors on Stage

Date: 04 05 1947
Description: Madison Theatre Guild play on stage at West High School, 30 Ash Street. Close-up view of stage setting for "Mr. and Mrs. North," with one actress and three...
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Production Still from The Immigrant

Date: 1917
Description: The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B...
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Crater Players at Blue Mounds

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Performers Olaf Ussing, leaning on a cane, and Carole Branley rehearsing for the presentation of "The Drunkard", a Crater Players production. They are in f...
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Wisconsin Union Theater Centennial Play, "River Boat"

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat, an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Uni...
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Wisconsin Union Theater Centennial Play, "River Boat"

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un...
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Black Friars Play "The Glass Menagerie"

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a...
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Nita Naldi in a Scene Still from Blood and Sand

Date: 1922
Description: Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ...
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Madison Woman's Club Play

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Five women in costume, acting in a scene from "Gay Nineties," a skit written by Lorraine Rucker for the Drama and History departments of the Madison Woman'...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Madison Woman's Club Birthday Party

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: One of a series of scenes from a dramatic production: "Down Memory Lane," presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Madison W...
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Madison Woman's Club Birthday Party

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: One of a series of scenes from the dramatic production "Down Memory Lane", presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Madison ...
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Madison Youth Summer Theater

Date: 08 06 1957
Description: The former Broadway smash hit, "Glass Menagerie," was presented at the tenth anniversary program of the Madison Youth Summer Theater at the Washington Scho...
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Scene Still from "The Young Diana"

Date: 1922
Description: Scene still of an enormous, elaborate winter set populated by scores of dancers designed by Joseph Urban for "The Young Diana."
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West High School Presents the Play "The Bishop Misbehaves"

Date: 11 10 1958
Description: West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Shown in the foreground are Eric Peterson and Gail Canfield. Surveying the scene through the wi...

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