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Additional authors

1. Sayler, Oliver M., 1887-1958
2. Peters, Richard, 1743-1828.

Description

1. 48 unnumbered leaves : illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

1. Scrapbook of clippings documenting the Plateau Players, a high society women's club within the Little Theatre movement, and the Plateau Playhouse in Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.), the former country home of Judge Richard Peters, a member of the Continental Congress who was active during the Colonial and Revolutionary period of United States history. (The home was called the Belmont Mansion and the Peters Mansion at various times.) There is some coverage of fund-raising performances to benefits victims of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

Donor/Sponsor

1. In honor of George Freedley

Subject

1. Benefit performances
2. Floods > Mississippi River Valley > History > 20th century
3. Little theater movement
4. Women > Societies and clubs > 20th century
5. Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) > History > 20th century
6. Mississippi River Valley > History > 1865-
7. Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. MWEZ+ n.c. 14275

Note

1. Early 20th century made-to-purpose scrapbook with a fabric tie and black cloth hardbacked cover. A stamp on the rear pastedown indicates it was made by "HORN Est. 1846 No. 294 Made in the U.S.A."

Title

1. Oliver M. Sayler scrapbook of the Plateau Players.

Publisher

1. 1927-1928.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Biography

1. The critic and author Oliver Martin Sayler was born in Huntington, Indiana, on October 23rd, 1887 and died in New York City, on October 19th, 1958. A student of Russian theatre and performing arts, Sayler witnessed the early events of the Bolshevik Revolution during a visit to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia as a journalist in the winter of 1917-1918, which he recounted in Russia, White or Red, published in 1919, and in The Russian Theatre under the Revolution, published in 1920. Sayler's continued scholarship and connections with Russian performers resulted in the Moscow Art Theatre's historic tour to the United States in 1923-1924, a producting collaboration with Morris Gest for whom he worked as a press agent.

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Added author

1. Sayler, Oliver M., 1887-1958, former owner.
2. Peters, Richard, 1743-1828.

Research call number

1. MWEZ+ n.c. 14275