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Wisconsin High School Student Rehearsal

Date: 02 11 1958
Description: Prof. J. Russell Paxton (left) of the University of Wisconsin School of Music and director of the Wisconsin High Singers posing with participants in the Wo...
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Prof. and Mrs. John (Lois) Dietrich

Date: 08 11 1949
Description: Professor and Mrs. John (Lois) Dietrich, 1218 Spring Street, at the Wisconsin Union theater for the opening of the Wisconsin Players' production of "The Ph...
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Professor Edgar Gordon

Date: 05 09 1952
Description: Professor Edgar B. Gordon with a large group of grade school youngsters from southern Wisconsin who came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to s...
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University of Wisconsin Players Opera Finalists

Date: 02 06 1950
Description: Finalists in tryouts for leading roles in the first opera ever to be presented by the Wisconsin Players are shown here with Doris Kassel, accompanist, at a...
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University of Wisconsin Play Cast

Date: 10 05 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin students rehearse their roles in the play "My Name is Legion." The play will be presented to the Dane County Association of Health ...
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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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University of Wisconsin Drama Quartet

Date: 01 12 1959
Description: The University of Wisconsin Drama Quartet, sponsored by the University's Bureau of Lectures and Concerts, presents a musical biography of Richard Rogers. P...
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Hildegarde with Governor Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 01 15 1950
Description: Entertainer and pianist Hildegarde, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, is shown in fur coat with Governor Oscar Rennebohm. She is a Wisconsin native born in Ade...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Showing their tickets in the atrium of the University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are univer...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Arriving at the atrium of the University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are Dr. and Mrs. Eugene...
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Cast for Operetta "H.M.S.Pinafore" at Wisconsin High School

Date: 01 17 1952
Description: Faculty advisor Ernest Justice posing with members of the cast of the operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore" which students of Wisconsin High school will present at th...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Visiting in the atrium of University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are (left to right): Profes...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Visiting in the atrium of University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are (left to right): Dave W...
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Gold Star Parents at Memorial Concert

Date: 03 20 1949
Description: The University of Wisconsin honored the dead of four wars with a concert presented by the University Symphony orchestra and chorus that was attended by som...
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Governor La Follette Accepting Haresfoot Tickets

Date: 04 21 1931
Description: William H. (Bill) Purnell and R.R. (Doc) Miller present Governor Philip La Follette with tickets to see the 33rd annual Haresfoot Club show "It's a Gay Lif...
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We Saw You at Drama Institute

Date: 12 12 1959
Description: Visitors from South Milwaukee High School Drama Club attend the Drama Institute in Madison to watch a performance of William Tell by Wisconsin Playe...
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Pi Eta Alumnae Chapter Play Readers

Date: 03 12 1952
Description: Playing leading roles in "The Concert" play reading by the Pi Eta alumnae chapter of Phi Beta are, left to right: Mrs. W.G. (Mary) Ogden, Jr., Ray J. Stanl...
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Symphony Conductor Walter Heerman

Date: 10 1955
Description: Walter Heerman conducting the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra at the opening concert of its 30th season.
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University League-Junior Division

Date: 11 01 1949
Description: Three members of the play-reading group of the Junior Division of the University League and their husbands meet to read a play. Standing left to right are:...
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"South Pacific" Actors Learn About Naval Weapons

Date: 03 1960
Description: Madison men who play naval officers in the play "South Pacific" learn about naval weapons by visiting the Naval Reserve Officers Training corps (NROTC) hea...

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