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Christopher Columbus Play

Date: 11 28 1933
Description: Four children in costume surround a cardboard cutout of a sailing ship for a play about Christopher Columbus. The play was performed at Longfellow School, ...
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Portrayal of the Madonna

Date: 12 08 1931
Description: A girl posing in costume in her role as the Madonna from a Central High School play.
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" showing a family scene at breakfast, left to right: Mary Snee, Virginia Baldwin, Barbara Burrell, and Erw...
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West High School Production of "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" with two actresses and one actor on a ladder. Left to right: Virginia Baldwin, Joel Salter, and Jerry Eri...
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" during the drug store scene, with Kenneth Paine, druggist, Virginia Baldwin, and Joel Salter.
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High School Students Centennial Play

Date: 05 26 1948
Description: High school students who took part in the Centennial play, "The Thirtieth Star," at West High school recently are: in front, Gene Coffman; in the second ro...
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Edgewood High School Christmas Play

Date: 12 07 1948
Description: Three high school students dressed as Joseph, Mary and the Angel Gabriel, rehearsing for a Christmas play to be presented at the Edgewood High School audit...
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Frank Hanson and Beverly Sime

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: East High School students Beverly Sime, playing the piano, and Frank Hanson, rehearsing for the "Pirates of Penzance" operetta.
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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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UW Actors Rehearse

Date: 03 11 1949
Description: Shown are some of the players rehearsing for "Le Malade Imaginaire", the Moliere comedy which the U.W. department of French and Italian presented at the Wi...
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East High School Play

Date: 03 17 1949
Description: Shirley Roll, Jane Spencer and Patricia Runstrom, rehearsing the roles of three old maids in East High School's spring play, "Tish".
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University of Wisconsin Latin American Week

Date: 03 23 1949
Description: Cast members of the 19th century Mexican play "A Ninguna de Las Tres" by Frenando Calderon to be presented at the Memorial Union Play Circle as part of the...
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East High Play

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: East High School actors being made up for a preformance of "Tish." Left to right: Pat Runstrom, Virginia Henrickson, Connie Connor, Leslie West, Rita Cleas...
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Wiscons Players Theatre Group

Date: 10 21 1949
Description: Two actresses and one actor in costume, portraying pre-Revolutionary New England characters in the drama, "The Devil's Disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. Th...
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Gloria Link

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Gloria Link placed second for outstanding performance in the Wisconsin Players' summer season. This was according to a poll of the playbill's directors con...
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Nakoma School Play

Date: 11 17 1950
Description: Nine Nakoma School third grade girls dressed in costumes of the countries they represented for a class play, "Democracy for Boys and Girls." The children w...
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Marquette School 202 Club

Date: 04 19 1951
Description: Group portrait of third grade members of the "202" club at Marquette School after they presented a dramatization of "Cinderella" for parents and other Marq...
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East High School Play

Date: 11 06 1951
Description: Rehearsing for East High School's fall play, "Pride and Prejudice", are (from left): Alice Ghering, Terry Howe, Shirley Jacobson, and Gilbert Splett.
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Edgewood Play

Date: 05 12 1952
Description: Two girls and one boy in costumes for an Edgewood play (operetta "Forest Prince"?).

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