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The original documents are located in Box 11, folder "10/25/75 - International Women's
Year Congress, Cleveland, OH (1)" of the Betty Ford White House Papers, 1973-1977 at the
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 14, 1975
MEMORANDUM TO: PETER SORUM
FROM:
SUSAN PORTER
D.
SUBJECT:
Action Memo
Mrs. Ford has accepted the following out-of-town invitation:
EVENT: Participate in Opening of Cleveland's International Women's
Year Congress
GROUP: Greater Cleveland Congress International Women's Year
DATE: Saturday, October 25, 1975
TIME: 12:30 p.m. Mrs. Ford's remarks to assembly
PLACE: Cleveland Convention Center
FORD R. GERALD LIBRARY
Cleveland, Ohio
CONTACT: Mrs. Scott R. York, Chairperson
(216) 861-3810
Press contacts: Sandy Johnson, (216) 861-6080, ext. 288
Mr. Nate Silverman, (216) 861-3810
COMMENTS: Mrs. Ford will participate in the opening of a 3-day
International Women's Year Congress to be held in Cleveland
on October 25, 26, and 27. Over 90 women's organizations
are participating as well as business and labor organizations
and two foundations. The event is probably the largest
observance of International Women's Year in the country and
will include exhibits, workshops, seminars, panels, etc.
The Congress will open at 9:00 a.m., however, they are
counting on Mrs. Ford's arriving in time to participate
at 12:30 in the Music Hall of the Convention Center, the
big assembly hall. They are quite agreeable to Mrs. Ford
making brief remarks at this time along with Mrs. Pandit.
I might also mention that the subject of a gift to Mrs. Ford
was raised so they may wish to make a presentation to her
at this time.
-2-
As we discussed, I believe the schedule will now permit
Mrs. Ford to leave Washington around 9:00 a.m. and return to
Washington early afternoon. I think the idea of a small
private luncheon is a good one and also whether Mrs. Ford
visits any of their exhibits I think should be determined
by you and Patti.
Mrs. Ford was invited to Cleveland to participate in the
ON OCTOBER 17th.
60th anniversary of the Cleveland Play HouseA Writing on
behalf of this invitation were Mayor Perk, former
Congresswoman Frances Bolton (R-Ohio) and her son
Kenyon Bolton, President of the Cleveland Play House
Foundation and active Republican. Were it possible to
include Mayor Perk and perhaps former Congresswoman
Bolton at some point--perhaps meet at the airport and/or
be included in a private luncheon--might be valuable.
Mrs. Ford's visit to Cleveland may hopefully help to lessen
Cleveland's disappointment at not being the site for the
1976 Republican National Convention.
I have also attached a copy of a letter to Mrs. Ford from
a former friend of hers in Grand Rapids, Verna Hewer Stevens
who is now living in Cleveland. Were it possible to permit
Mrs. Ford to simply say Hello to her at some point, this
might be very nice. NOTE: I have not been in communication
with Mrs. Stevens. The file is attached.
Thank you.
FORD LIBRARY & GERALD
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William Nicholson
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 23, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MRS. FORD
VIA:
RED CAVANE
FROM:
PETER SORUM
SUBJECT:
YOUR VISIT TO CLEVELAND, OHIO
Saturday, October 25, 1975
Attached at TAB A is the proposed schedule for your visit to
Cleveland, Ohio.
APPROVE
DISAPPROVE
BACKGROUND
The Greater Cleveland Congress of International Women's Year
has been organized by a coalition of Women's Groups headed by
Mrs. Scott York to serve as a base for future action for women
seeking a better way of life in Cleveland. The 3-day program,
which begins Saturday, will offer 140 sessions in over 200 exhibits
showing all aspects of women in society. You will join Madame
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Former President of the UN General
Assembly, in addressing a mid-day session of the Congress after
touring a portion of the Exhibit Area.
Following the session, you will be guest of honor at a private
luncheon which will include some of the key women of Cleveland
and other program participants. The luncheon will include an in-
formal discussion of the future role of women in America. Following
the luncheon, you will drop-by a reception for the IWY's Executive
Committee to recognize the contributions that these individuals have
made to their communities and IWY.
- 2 -
MAYOR RALPH PERK
Mayor Ralph Perk, Republican candidate for re-election on
Tuesday, November 4, will meet you at Hopkins International
Airport and will be your guest for the drive to the Bond Court
Hotel. While predictions indicate that the election will be close,
Mayor Perk currently leads in the polls.
FORD & GERATO LIBRARY
TAB
A
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
10/23/75
PROPOSED SCHEDULE
4:55 pm
MRS. FORD'S VISIT TO
CLEVELAND, OHIO
Saturday, October 25, 1975
9:00 am
Mrs. Ford boards motorcade on South Grounds.
MOTORCADE DEPARTS South Grounds en route
Andrews AFB.
[Driving time: 25 minutes]
9:25 am
MOTORCADE ARRIVES Andrews AFB.
Mrs. Ford boards C-9.
9:30 am
C-9 DEPARTS Andrews AFB en route Hopkins
International Airport, Cleveland, Ohio.
[Flying time: 1 hour, 10 minutes]
FORD R. GERALD LIBRARY
[No time change. ]
10:40 am
C-9 ARRIVES Hopkins International Airport.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
CLOSED ARRIVAL
Mrs. Ford will be met by:
Mayor Ralph Perk (R-Cleveland) & Mrs. Per k
&wife
10:45 am
Mrs. Ford and Mayor Perk board motorcade.
MOTORCADE DEPARTS Hopkins International Airport
en route Bond Court Hotel.
[Driving time: 25 minutes]
11:10 am
MOTORCADE ARRIVES Bond Court Hotel.
Mrs. Ford and Mayor Perk proceed inside hotel
where they will be greeted by Mr. James Carney,
Hotel Owner.
- 2 -
NOTE: Mayor Perk will bid
farewell in the hotel lobby.
11:15 am
Mrs. Ford, escorted by Mr. Carney, proceeds
to Presidential Suite (21st Floor).
Mrs. Ford will be met at Suite by Mr. James LaDu,
General Manager, Bond Court Hotel, and Mrs. James
(June) LaDu.
NOTE: As the first occupant
of the Presidential Suite, Mrs.
Ford will cut a ceremonial
ribbon at the Suite's entrance.
OFFICIAL PHOTO COVERAGE
11:20 am
Mrs. Ford proceeds inside Presidential Suite.
GE
R. FORD LIBRARY
PERSONAL/STAFF TIME: 45 minutès
12:00 noon
Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Former
President of the UN General Assembly,
arrives Suite.
12:05 pm
Mrs. Ford and Madame Pandit depart Suite en route
motorcade for boarding.
12:08 pm
MOTORCADE DEPARTS Bond Court Hotel en route
Cleveland Convention Center.
[Driving time: 1 minute]
12:09 pm
MOTORCADE ARRIVES Cleveland Convention Center.
Mrs. Ford and Madame Pandit will be met by:
Mrs. Scott (Gwill) R. York, Chairperson
Greater Cleveland Congress, IWY
12:10 pm
Mrs. Ford and Madame Pandit, escorted by Mrs. York,
proceed on an informal walking tour of Exhibit Area.
- 3 -
12:25 pm
Mrs. Ford and Madame Pandit, escorted by Mrs.
York, conclude tour and proceed to Music Center
offstage holding area.
12:28 pm
Mrs. Ford and Madame Pandit arrive offstage holding
area.
PERSONAL TIME: 5 minutes
12:33 pm
Mrs. Ford proceeds onto stage and takes her seat.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
ATTENDANCE: 3,000
12:35 pm
Opening remarks by Mrs. William (Jill)
Ruckelshaus, Chairperson, National Commission
of the Observance of International Women's Year
concluding with the introduction ofMrs. Ford.
12:37 pm
Remarks by Mrs. Ford.
FULL PRESS COVERAGE
FORD R. GERALD LIBRARY
12:42 pm
Remarks conclude.
Mrs. Ford is joined at the podium by Mrs. York.
12:43 pm
Thank you remarks by Mrs. York concluding in a
presentation to Mrs. Ford.
NOTE: No response is required.
Mrs. Ford returns to her seat.
12:46 pm
Introduction of Madame Pandit by Mrs. York.
12:47 pm
Remarks by Madame Pandit.
1:04 pm
Remarks conclude.
1:05 pm
Program concludes.
1:05 pm
Mrs. Ford departs Music Center stage en route
Bond Court Hotel.
- 4 -
[Walking time: 5 minutes]
1:10 pm
Mrs. Ford arrives Presidential Suite, Bond Court
Hotel.
PERSONAL TIME: 20 minutes
1:30 pm
Mrs. Ford departs Presidential Suite en route
Board Room.
1:32 pm
Mrs. Ford arrives Board Room and informally
greets luncheon participants.
PRESS POOL COVERAGE
ATTENDANCE: 12
1:35 pm
Luncheon is served.
2:30 pm
Luncheon concludes.
2:32 pm
Mrs. Ford, escorted by Mrs. York, departs Board
Room en route Barcelona Suite.
2:35 pm
Mrs. Ford, escorted by Mrs. York, arrives Barcelona
Suite and informally greets IWY Congress' Executive
Committee Members.
OFFICIAL PHOTO COVERAGE
ATTENDANCE: 75
2:50 pm
Mrs. Ford departs Barcelona Suite en route
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
Presidential Suite.
2:51 pm
Mrs. Ford arrives Presidential Suite.
PERSONAL TIME: 5 minutes
2:56 pm
Mrs. Ford departs Presidential Suite en route
motorcade for boarding.
3:00 pm
MOTORCADE DEPARTS Bond Court Hotel en route
Hopkins International Airport.
[Driving time: 25 minutes]
- 5 --
3:25 pm
MOTORCADE ARRIVES Hopkins International
Airport.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
CLOSED DEPARTURE
Mrs. Ford boards C-9.
3:30 pm
C-9 DEPARTS Hopkins International Airport en route
Andrews AFB.
[Flying time: 1 hour, 5 minutes]
[No time change.]
4:35 pm
C-9 ARRIVES Andrews AFB.
Mrs. Ford boards motorcade.
4:40 pm
MOTORCADE DEPARTS Andrews AFB en route
South Grounds.
[Driving time: 25 minutes]
5:05 pm
MOTORCADE ARRIVES South Grounds.
fill Ruckelshaus will fly back
to wash. with us
FORD R. GERATO LIBRARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 14, 1975
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
MEMORANDUM TO: PETER SORUM
FROM:
SUSAN PORTER
SUBJECT:
Action Memo
Mrs. Ford has accepted the following out-of-town invitation:
EVENT: Participate in Opening of Cleveland's International Women's
Year Congress
GROUP: Greater Cleveland Congress International Women's Year
DATE: Saturday, October 25, 1975
TIME: 12:30 p.m. Mrs. Ford's remarks to assembly
PLACE: Cleveland Convention Center
Cleveland, Ohio
CONTACT: Mrs. Scott R. York, Chairperson
(216) 861-3810
Press contacts: Sandy Johnson, (216) 861-6080, ext. 288
Mr. Nate Silverman, (216) 861-3810
COMMENTS: Mrs. Ford will participate in the opening of a 3-day
International Women's Year Congress to be held in Cleveland
on October 25, 26, and 27. Over 90 women's organizations
are participating as well as business and labor organizations
and two foundations. The event is probably the largest
observance of International Women's Year in the country and
will include exhibits, workshops, seminars, panels, etc.
The Congress will open at 9:00 a.m., however, they are
counting on Mrs. Ford's arriving in time to participate
at 12:30 in the Music Hall of the Convention Center, the
big assembly hall. They are quite agreeable to Mrs. Ford
making brief remarks at this time along with Mrs. Pandit.
I might also mention that the subject of a gift to Mrs. Ford
was raised so they may wish to make a presentation to her
at this time.
-2-
As we discussed, I believe the schedule will now permit
Mrs. Ford to leave Washington around 9:00 a.m. and return to
Washington early afternoon. I think the idea of a small
private luncheon is a good one and also whether Mrs. Ford
visits any of their exhibits I think should be determined
by you and Patti.
Mrs. Ford was invited to Cleveland to participate in the
ON a tose 17th.
60th anniversary of the Cleveland Play HouseA Writing on
behalf of this invitation were Mayor Perk, former
Congresswoman Frances Bolton (R-Ohio) and her son
Kenyon Bolton, President of the Cleveland Play House
FORD R. GERALD LIBRARY
Foundation and active Republican. Were it possible to
include Mayor Perk and perhaps former Congresswoman
Bolton at some point--perhaps meet at the airport and/or
be included in a private luncheon--might be valuable.
Mrs. Ford's visit to Cleveland may hopefully help to lessen
Cleveland's disappointment at not being the site for the
1976 Republican National Convention.
I have also attached a copy of a letter to Mrs. Ford from
a former friend of hers in Grand Rapids, Verna Hewer Stevens
who is now living in Cleveland. Were it possible to permit
Mrs. Ford to simply say Hello to her at some point, this
might be very nice. NOTE: I have not been in communication
with Mrs. Stevens. The file is attached.
Thank you.
C: BF Staff
Red Cavaney
Warren Rustand
Pat Lindh
William Nicholson
Rex Scouten
Staircase
Mrs. Ford
GERALD R FORD LIBRARY
BACKGROUNDER ON GREATER CLEVELAND CONGRESS FOR IWY
Cleveland's IWY Conference is probably the biggest IWY cele-
bration in the country. They are expecting 30,000 people over
a 3-day period, and have 140 different workshops and seminars
for people to visit and participate in. It is entirely free
and open to the public.
This has been entirely a community project, starting with about
40 women who thought it would be a good idea and kept at it.
A lot of the impetus has come from Gwill York, an ex-Junior
League President and housewife with 2 children, who volunteered
for the full-time job as Chairperson and has done a terrific job--
in organization, in raising funds, and in handling people.
The organizers (more than 100 women's groups are involved) are
homemakers, career women, and volunteers. Their common ground:
most have had no previous identification with the women's move-
ment; they have a belief that women must cooperate with men to
achieve equality; they endorse choice for women in choosing
their roles; and they greatly support the family (most are wives,
widows, and mothers).
Your audience will be about 3,000 people in an old auditorium
with a cozy, intimate feeling to it (it appears to hold about
a third of that number). The TV cameras are straight ahead of
you in the audience, about 60 feet back.
Madam Pandit is sister to the late Prime Minister Nehru and a
confidente of Gandhi. She became known internationally when
she led the Indian delegation to the UN in 1946. In 1953 she
was elected UN Assembly President, the first and only woman to
hold that title. She later served India as Ambassador to Britain,
the United States, and Russia. Her views on feminism might be
summed up in this quote (20 years ago) : "All my political train-
ing has taught me to look at myself as an individual and not as
a woman. Madam Pandit is 75 years old.
Dorothy Fuldheim, one of the guests in your private luncheon,
is one of Cleveland's notables. She is 83. She still works
nine hours a day as a broadcaster for WEWS-TV, the local ABC
- 2 -
affiliate. She has interviewed six Presidents, Hitler, Kings,
FORD R. LIBRARY
Queens, all the major candidates, etc., and has a national
reputation. She has been described as "elegant," very much
lady, and is evidently quite a personality. The IWY people
wanted her in the luncheon because they consider her a very
visible, outstanding example of what women can do.
The organizers have stressed that there is nothing political
about the Congress. Their purpose is to raise the consciousness
of the community and to improve the quality of their daily lives--
men as well as women.
The Congress also includes more than 200 exhibits and displays
by women's organizations, civic and cultural institutions,
businesses and government agencies.
Other guests during the Congress: comedienne Lily Tomlin;
Phyllis Gillis, Executive Director of the Gallup Institute,
who will release results of the latest Gallup poll on "what
do women really want and think"; syndicated columnist Ann
Landers; tennis pro and TV commentator Julie Heldman; Lynn
Caine, author of the book, Widow; Constance B. Newman, Vice
Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; and tele-
vision psychologist Sonya Friedman.
# # #
ITINERARY
Mrs. Ford's trip to Cleveland
October 25, 1975
9:00 A.M.
Check-in at Andrews Air Force Base at
Distinguished Visitor's Lounge.
9:30 A.M.
Aircraft departs en route Hopkins International
Airport in Cleveland
10:30 A.M.
Arrive Cleveland
GERAIT
FORD LIBRARY
11:05 A.M.
Arrive Bond Court Hotel, downtown Cleveland.
Press will be taken to press room at Cleveland
Convention Center (across street from Hotel).
There will be 50 minutes of free time.
12:00 Noon
Press gather in press room to go to Mrs. Ford's
arrival point.
12:10 P.M.
Mrs. Ford and Madam Pandit arrive at Convention
Center and take a walking tour of booths and
exhibits.
12:25 P.M.
Press to Music Hall
12:30 to
Open coverage of Mrs. Ford/Madam Pandit speeches.
1:00 P.M.
1:05 P.M.
Mrs. Ford departs Convention Center en route Bond
Court Hotel, where she will be a guest at a lunch
hosted by Greater Cleveland Congress of IWY
1:30 P.M.
Board Room - 22nd Floor of Bond Court Hotel.
Brief photo session of luncheon.
1:40 to
Filing/staff time
2:45 P.M.
2:30 to
Private reception with Executive Committee of
2:50 P.M.
Greater Cleveland Congress.
2:45 P.M.
Motorcade boards in front of Bond Court Hotel en
route Hopkings International Airport
3:00 P.M.
Depart Hotel for airport.
3:30 P.M.
Aircraft departs Cleveland en route Andrews Air Force
Base.
4:30 P.M.
Arrive Andrews Air Force Base.
(PHYLLIS)
(DOROTHY)
(GWILL)
(ALMETA)
(BETTY)
MRS.
MRS.
MRS.
MRS.
MISS
GILLIS
FULDHEIM
YORK
JOHNSON
COPE
MADAM.
MRS. JILL
PANDIT
RUCKLESHAUS
MRS.
MRS.
MRS.
MRS.
MRS.
HADDEN
GUZZO
FORD
HUNTLEY
COTNER
(ELAINE)
(CLAUDIA)
(TIPPY)
(MERCEDES)
BOARD ROOM BOND COURT HOTEL CLEVELAND, OHIO
FORD i LIBRARY GERALD
IWY Luncheon in honor of Mrs. Ford Guest List
Board Room, Bond Court Hotel 1:30 pm
October 25, 1975
Mrs. Ford
Madam Pandit
former President of UN General Assembly
Jill Ruckelshaus
Chairperson, National Commission on the Observance
of International Women's Year
Phyllis Gillis
Executive Director, Gallup International Research
Institutes, Inc.
Tippy Huntley
Chet Huntley's widow, currently Promotional Consultant to
Big Sky of Montana, Inc.
* Gwill York
Chairperson, Greater Cleveland Congress, International
Women's Year
* Dorothy Fuldheim
Television personality, WEWS TV News commentator
* Mercedes Cotner
City Council Clerk
Betty Cope
General Manager, WVIZ TV (Cleveland's educational
television station)
* Almeta Johnson
Chief Police Prosecuter
* Elaine Hadden
civic leader
FORD R. GERALD LIBRARY
* Claudia Guzzo
County Board of Elections member and Republican leader
* Named by Cleveland Plain Dealer as Cleveland's "Most Influential Women"
(Sunday Plain Dealer Magazine, October 19, 1975)
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Mrs. Ford,
Here is the file on
the Cleveland International
Women's Year Congress.
Thank you,
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
susan edean
Susan would only
anticipate your greating them
? brief remarks.
GREATER CLEVELAND CONGRESS
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR
700 National City Bank Building, Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Telephone 861-3810
(216)
August 8, 1975
FORD R. GERALD LIBRARY
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Mrs. Gerald Ford
S.P.
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mrs. Ford:
International Women's Year is being observed by the Greater Cleveland
area with a three day Congress at the Cleveland Convention Center on
October 25th, 26th, and 27th of this year. This event appears to be
one of the largest, if not the largest observance of International
Women's Year in this country. We are very pleased and even somewhat
amazed by the tremendous response of so many people in the planning
stages of this event.
Because of your great courage in speaking for women, we would be
deeply honored if you could personally be a part of this Congress.
We believe that this Congress can help significantly in changing
the unfortunate impressions which came from the UN Conference in
Mexico City, and can assist the basic goals of International Women's
Year - Equality, Development, Peace through equal partnership.
Our Congress will not be political. It will not represent any one
point of view. We encourage all opinions to be expressed in an
atmosphere of mutual respect towards the goal of better understanding.
We believe that Cleveland is well situated geographically and philo-
sophically to seriously examine and act upon the status of women.
The Cleveland Congress will include exhibits, workshops, seminars,
panels, booths, stage presentations and speeches. So far over ninety
women's organizations in the Greater Cleveland area have made a finan-
cial commitment to this project as have two foundations. Over
one hundred other women's organizations are participating in some
way. The grass roots support for this event is amazing. We also
have the support, via participation and money, of our social service
agencies, cultural organizations, the federal agencies in our area,
the major newspapers, the television channels, the major department
stores, the City of Cleveland, the County of Cuyahoga and the Greater
Cleveland Growth Association. We have just begun our contacts with
business and labor and the initial response is excellent.
Mrs. Gerald Ford
Page Two
August 8, 1975
Your presence at our Congress could, I believe, have a significant
impact upon what happens here in Cleveland and also in other parts of
the country. It appears, much to our surprise, that what Cleveland
is planning is being watched nationally. Among others, Madam Pandit
is coming from India to be with us.
Please join with us, if you can, sometime during the three days of
our Congress. Ideally, we would like to have you make a few remarks
as we open our Congress on Saturday or as we close it Monday evening,
but we are, of course, completely willing to arrange our schedule to
your convenience. If you wish to participate in one of our workshops,
that would be great. What matters to us is that you come to our Congress.
I so look forward to hearing from you and I hope to see you in Cleveland.
Most sincerely,
GWILL York
Mrs. Scott R. York, Chairperson
The Greater Cleveland Congress
International Women's Year
GY:rml
enclosures
FORD & GRAPTO LIBRARY
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE IWY CONGRESS
Saturday, October 25, 1975
Sunday, October 26, 1975
Status of Women - Internationally
Ecumenical Service
Nationally
Women in Sports
Ohio
Women in Education
History of Women's Movement
Education as Concerns Women
Ethnicity
Women in Media
Third World
Women in Business; Finance; Banking;
Women in Politics
Credit; Social Security
Women in Government
Women in Arts
Women and the Law
Women in Social Services
Women in the Armed Service
Women in Medicine; Science
Women in Unions
Women in Transportation - Recreation - Kiwi
Employment
Rape Workshops
Women in Volunteering
Consciousness Raising for Men
Women as Consumers
Consciousness Raising for Women
Rape Workshops
Panel on Lobbying - Cuyahoga County
Consciousness Raising for Men
League of Women Voters
Consciousness Raising for Women
GERALU R. FORD LIBRARY
Monday, October 27, 1975
High School Career Challenges***
Prostitution Workshop
"Changing Roles in a Changing World"
Day Care - What is Good Day Care?
Philanthropy - Giving and Granting
Adolescence - Coping with as Parents
Self-Fulfilled Mother ---
Single Parent
Paradox or Possibility?
Women in Politics
Role Reversal: How and Why?
Women in Science/Medicine
Pre-School Sexuality: Self-concept
Women's Health Care
development that parents and
Being a Single Woman
children can enjoy together
Personal Development
Family Planning (Choices)
Separation and Divorce
Homemakers' Helps
Alcoholism
Politics of Rape
Black Women through History
Self-Defense
Women in Poverty
Self-Fulfillment Thru Relationships
Menopause
Communication Techniques
Chronic Illness
Mental Health - Female Psychology
Exceptional Child (Gifted/Retarded)
Family Planning
Decision-Making Skills
Sexuality
Consciousness Raising for Men
Assertiveness Training
Consciousness Raising for Women
Career Exploration
Housing
The Psychology of Women
Environmental Conditions
Aging
***1600 High School students from Greater
Issues, Problems, Concerns
Cleveland schools
&
FORD
GERALD
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The Greater Cleveland Congress:
will explore and discuss the "female situation" locally, nationally, and
internationally;
will explore the many options available to women;
will explain and discuss the many aspects of the women's movement;
will explore and discuss the "equal partnership" with men -- while concentrating
upon women, men will be involved in all aspects of this Congress;
will be a learning, discussing, sharing experience for the Northern Ohio communit
as a base for future action; this is but the beginning;
will be a rational, comprehensive, well-organized approach to IWY -- a beginning
toward the IWY goals of Equality, Development and Peace.
Some of the topics to be discussed at the Congress are:
Status of Women, Internationally, Nationally and Locally, Women in Government and
Politics, Women and the Law, Women and Education, Women and Employment, Women in the
Arts, Women and Family Concerns, Women in Communication, Women and Economics, Women an
Aging, Women in Volunteer Service, in Unions, in Welfare, in Religion, in Sports, Wome:
and Ethnicity. Also there will be several workshops and seminars devoted to discussin
the relationship between men and women in numerous areas from marriage to work to play
There will be seminars on the future implications of the women's movement, how its
future can be productive and of meaningfül contribution to all people.
There will be several speakers of national prominence, there will be many speakers and
panelists from the Cleveland area.
There will be numerous exhibits from historical to artistic, primarily concerned with
women but also with Cleveland.
There will be performances of the various cultural groups in the Greater Cleveland are
There will be a listing of services available to women.
There will be a listing of women's organizations.
There will be polls and questionnaires to assist with understanding the local situatic
concerning women.
There will be numerous booths from women's organizations, civic organizations, cultura
institutions, business and industry, and the consulates.
There will be a balanced program including humor. This must not become too totally
serious.
There will be a Day Care Center.
There will be the opportunity for all points of view to be expressed.
There will be definite follow-up and concrete proposals as a result of this Congress.
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1100 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036
August 5, 1975
Miss Susan Porter
Appointments Secretary for
Mrs. Ford
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20051
Dear Susan:
I enclose herewith the material that was furnished
to me by Mrs. Scott York about the convention plan for
Cleveland on October 25, 26, 27, 1975 as a celebration of
International Women's Year.
As you suggested in our conversation over the
telephone last week, I have told Mrs. York that she should
write directly to Mrs. Ford describing the convention and
inviting her to attend. I also repeated what I thought
was your suggestion, that Mrs. York make clear to
Mrs. Ford that the degree and method of her participation
was entirely flexible, so as not to give her the feeling
that she would necessarily be called on for a major speech.
As far as I can tell, the sponsorship of this con-
vention is in entirely responsible hands. I would be glad,
of course, to make any further quiet inquiries that you
or anyone on the President's or Mrs. Ford's staff might
think necessary. This sounds like a good project, and I
hope it can come to fruition.
With every good wish, I am,
GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY
Sincerely yours,
Coopman Rose
H. Chapman Rose
Enclosures
MRS. SCOTT R. YORK
700 National City Bank Building
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216) 861-3810
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Mr. H. Chapman Rose
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
1700 Union Commerce Building
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Dear Mr. Rose:
It is with great hope that I am writing to you concerning
the possibility of a visit to Cleveland by Betty Ford and Happy
Rockefeller to help celebrate International Women's Year.
Last year the United Nations declared 1975 as International
Women's Year and President Ford signed a document stating the United
States support of this celebration. This special year came into being
because in no country have women attained full equality or full partner-
ship with men and it was hoped that a special year would help to promote
this equality and help to assist the integration of women into the
total social and economic development of all nations which could help
toward the cause of world peace. Very simply stated, the basic purpose
is to improve the quality of life for everyone, a very ambitious, but
desperately needed goal.
The State Department gave a grant. to Dr. Ruth Bacon to
coordinate the observance of International Women's Year in the United
States. I have visited with Dr. Bacon at some length and the following
plans for Cleveland have emerged as a result of these conversations and
also as the result of meetings with representatives of about two hundred
women's organizations in the Northeastern Ohio area. These organizations
include those which involve all socio-economic, political, humanitarian,
religious, cultural, and professional groups.
There will be a "Congress" at the Cleveland Convention Center
the 25th, 26th, and 27th of October. This Congress will be a combination
of exhibits, workshops, seminars, speeches, performances all related to
subjects of greatest interest to women. Subjects to be covered include
Women and the Family, the Woman Alone, Women in Business, Women in the
Arts, Women in Politics and Government, to mention but some of the areas
which will be explored. We will concentrate on Cleveland women and those
in Northeastern Ohio, but we will have several speakers of national
reputation.
We expect 20,000 to 40,000 people at this convention.
Cleveland is one of the few American cities which at this time is
planning something this large for International Women's Year and
I believe that this Congress will make a real impact.
We would be so pleased if Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller
could manage to come to our Congress at some time. Needless to say,
we would also be thrilled if they could be accompanied by their
husbands. One of the goals of the Congress is to concentrate upon
the need and desirability of an equal partnership with men in all
areas of human concern. This is not and will not be a far out
women's lib rally. This event is to stress the possibilities and
potentials of men and women working together. This Congress will
try to explain the basic situation of women historically, legally
and will try to get the facts, not the sensationalism, of the women's
movement to the public. This is to be a rational look at an evolu-
tionary situation and the Fords and Rockefellers could help
tremendously in helping me and others provide a calm, rational, and
intelligent approach to the women's movement.
We anticipate having the opportunity of using hard data,
currently being gathered, to assist in rational decisions concerning
the articulated needs of women as perceived by women. We hope this
focus and the results of the convention will give guidance to policy
makers.
I personally have not so far been identified with any
particular segment of the women's movement. I was selected by the
heads of over forty women's organizations in the Cleveland area to
chair this event. I had not even been aware that meetings concerning
International Women's Year were taking place. I gather I was selected
because I was an enlightened moderate and a volunteer via the route
of Vassar College, the Junior League, and the Distribution Committee
of The Cleveland Foundation.
Needless to say, a visit such as I am requesting would have
a great impact on our Congress and on the whole Northeastern Ohio area.
I personally would be more than willing to do whatever you feel is
necessary to encourage the possibility of such a visit. I do travel
to Washington fairly often and would be delighted to speak with anyone
you might suggest.
Thank you for your willingness to consider my request.
Most sincerely,
Gwill
Mrs. Scott R. York
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE IWY CONGRESS
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Monday, October 27, 1975
Unit Leader - Dee Character
Unit Vice Leader -
Unit Session Leader - (A's Indicated)
Time (Later)
Type
1.
High School Career Challenges; etc. - (Sally Griswold)
2.
Getting and Giving - (Barbara Rawson
3.
Women'as Homemakers - Wife; Mother; Cook
Family Options - Housing; Career;
Marriage; Parents;
Child Care (Learn'g. Dis.; Day Care)
4.
Women and Welfare
5.
Female Psychology; Sexuality; Health
6.
Personal Development - Beauty; Talent
7.
Women Alone: Widowed; Single (Teenager); Divorced
(Humor: Soap Operas)
8.
Aging
Maggie Kuhn
9,
Diversity - Various Life Styles
Wives of Well-Known Men
Welfare; Professional
10.
Women and Problems: Alcoholism; Rape
11.
Future Implications: Equal Partnership
Male Viewpoints
12.
Returning to Work - Children Grown
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Saturday
Betty Furness
Mildred Marcy
Ellen Strauss
Ella Grasso
Bess Myerson
Barb Walters
Barb Jordan
Jill Ruckelshaus
Betty Ford
Frankie Freeman
Ella Johnson
Sunday
Billie Jean King
(1) Ruth Helms Osborn
Dr. Estelle Ramey
Katharine Graham
(2) Bernice Sandler
Metina Horner - Ratcliffe
Dr. Jane Goodall
(3) Sister Joel Read
*Ellen Strauss - Call for Action
Sylvia Porter
*Ceil Frieburg - Soc. Sec. - Credi
Monday
Alan Alda
Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman
H. Sipila
Larry & Ann Halprin
Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis
Margaret Ellen Traxler
A. Toefler
Carla Hills
E. Sevareid
Helen Reddy
M. Tolliver
DRAFT IV
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE IWY CONGRESS
Saturday, October 25, 1975
Unit Leader - Lois Goodman
Unit Session Leader - (As Indicated)
Time (Later)
Type
1.
Status of Women - Internationally
Keynote
Nationally
Ohio
2.
History of Women's Movement - (Lois Sharf)
3.
Ethnicity - (Lucretia Stoica)
Nancy Sieford
4.
Third World - (Hazel White)
5.
Women in Politics - (Nancy Cronin)
6.
Women in Government - (Zelda Mildner)
7.
Women and the Law - (Rita Reuss)
8.
Women in the Armed Service - (Capt. Joyce Williams)
9.
Women in Unions - (Barbara Janis)
10.
Employment - (Jane Picker)
11.
Women in Volunteering - (Later)
12.
Consumerism - (Sally Ebling)
B. Furness, B. Myerson
Sunday, October 26, 1975
Unit Leader - Jane Outcalt
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Unit Vice Leader - Jane King
Unit Session Leader - (As Indicated)
Time (Later)
Type
1.
10:30-12:00
Ecumenical Service - (Joan Campbell)
2.
Women in Religion - (Joan Campbell)
3.
Women in Sports - (Allison Titegemeyer)
4.
Women in Education -
(Evelyn Bonder)
5.
Education as Concerns Women
(Susan Brady)
6.
Women in Media - (Mary Strassmeyer)
7.
Women in Business; Finance; Banking;
Credit; Social Security
8.
Women and World Concerns - (Mrs. Drue King)
Food; Ecology; Energy; Population;
Peace; Various Consulates
9.
Women in Arts - (Zoe Byln - Chessie Bleick)
10.
Women in Social Services
11.
Women in Medicine; Science (Marian Ratnoff)
12.
Women in Transportation - Recreation - Kiwi
(Pat Little - Jo Williams)
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1100 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
September 4, 1975
Miss Susan Porter
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Susan:
Herewith further background on the
Greater Cleveland Congress for International
Women's Year which I have just had from
Mrs. York.
Sincerely yours,
Chapmon Rose
H. Chapman Rose
Enclosures
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The Cleveland Press, Tuesday, July 22, 1975
Women to hold
big conclave here
By RUSTY BROWN
Cleveland's observance of International Women's
Year this fall may be the largest in the U.S.
The three-day (Oct. 25 - 27) Greater Cleveland Con-
gress already has the support of 90 local women's
organizations and two foundations.
More than 100 women's groups are scheduled to par-
ticipate in some way.
FORD & LIBRA ERALD
THE PLAIN DEALER, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1975
Nomen's year planners are eyeing Clevelant
By Helen Humrichouser
A global giant is stirring: the
vakening has begun.
This boundless, gentle creature
hich has been kept for the most
art in a somnolent state of captivi-
" is composed of more than half
1 the world's population - the
eminine part.
International Women's Year
1975), proclaimed by the United
lations General Assembly "as a
Conference
car to focus attention throughout
he world on the status of women,"
is shaping up.
$ becoming an effective arousing
gent as it calls women (and men)
to be largest
ogether in many cities for pro-
rams of concern to all.
in the country
Cleveland's turn is coming in
October (25, 26 and 27), when the
Greater Cleveland Congress of IWY
vill convene at the Cleveland Con-
ention Center for what is shaping
ip to be the largest such observ-
ince in the country.
Gwill York, who became
chairman of the congress after "an
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GREATER CLEVELAND CONGRESS
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR
700 National City Bank Building, Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Telephone 861-3810
September 2, 1975
Mr. Chapman Rose
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
1700 Union Commerce Building
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Dear Chappie:
The Greater Cleveland Congress for IWY is still expanding. I
continue to be amazed and somewhat overwhelmed by the support and
interest we are receiving on all levels. Yesterday I learned that Eunice
Kennedy Shriver wishes to attend, and the day before I learned that
Mrs. Chet Huntley would come and help in any way she could.
Jill Ruckelhaus will help us on Saturday. And as you know Madame Pandit
is coming all the way from India just for our Congress.
Needless to say, I am still hoping Betty Ford will be with us. I
did send her the letter you suggested and I do have the special suite at Bond
Court reserved for her use. I know her appearances are undoubtedly
subject to all kinds of considerations and changes, but really her presence
would mean so very much to us all. Her candor is so needed and my respect
for her grows with everything that I read about her. I hope her recent
interview which caused so much reaction (or at least the media tried to
make it seem that it caused so much reaction) in no way diminishes her
ability to speak publicly and to speak as she believes.
Please keep me informed and please know how deeply grateful I
am to you for all your efforts on my behalf and on behalf of the Congress.
Most sincerely,
Gwill
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
Mrs. Scott R. York
Chairperson
GY/jes
Saturday, October 25, 1975
Cleveland, Ohio
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR CONGRESS
On October 25, 26, and 27 International Women's Year will be
observed in the Cleveland area with a thrée-day conference to be
held at the Cleveland Convention Center. This event is probably
the largest observance of International Women's Year in the country.
The Cleveland Congress will include exhibits, workshops, seminars,
panels, booths, etc. Over 90 women's groups in the Cleveland area
are involved with the project as are two foundations. Business and
labor contacts for this occasion have been excellent.
You are invited to open the Congress on Saturday, October 25.
I would envision this to include making brief remarks and then visiting
some of the exhibits (good photos). This invitation is strongly
endorsed by Mr. H. Chapman Rose, a prominent Cleveland Republican
attorney, who served as Under Secretary of the Treasury under
Eisenhower and is active in Washington and Cleveland affairs. Because
Ohio is a key state for the President, because this is International
Women's Year, and because this is one of the largest and most interesting
International Women's Year celebrations, I would strongly recommend
your attending.
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Open Cleveland International Women's Year Congress;
Saturday, October 25
Regret
-Return to D.C.
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WOMEN'S CONVENTION OPENS - Early
arrivals to today's opening ceremonies of the
International Women's Year Congress at Cleve-
land's Convention Center were these three princi-
pals. They are Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
(left), first woman president of the United Na-
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ddresses IWY
Urges women
to be proud of
homemaking
By SUE KINCAID
and RUSTY BROWN
First Lady Betty Ford said here
today she is distressed that through
all the debate on women's rights,
there has been a lack of appreciation
for the roles of women as wives and
mothers.
"We have to take the 'just' out of
'just a housewife' and show our
pride in having made the home and
family our lives' work," Mrs. Ford
said in remarks prepared for her ad-
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dress to the International Women's
Year Congress in the Convention
Center.
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Betty Ford addresses IWY,
urges pride in homemaking
a
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of
only to the lucky few. Many barriers
sts
y of
continue to block the paths of most
women, even on the most basic issue
in-
of equal pay for equal work, Mrs.
ex-
Ford said.
"My own support of the Equal
nce
Rights Amendment has shown what
ms
happens when a definition of proper
he
behavior collides with the right of an
ho
individual to personal opinions,"
ey
said Mrs. Ford.
ts
"I do not believe that being the
First cady should prevent me from
expressing my views," she said.
"Being ladylike does not require
silence."
Mrs. Ford pointed out that when
the Equal Rights Amendment is rati-
fied it will not be an instant solution
to womens' problems. It will, she
said, help open more options for
women.
R.
FORD
Perks take gift to Mrs. Ford
ERRALD
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By TOM SKOCH AND PETER
PHIPPS
Mayor Perk and his wife Lucille
greeted First Lady Betty Ford at
Cleveland Hopkins Airport with a
bouquet of flowers and a small gift,
then rode downtown with her in a
Buick Electra 225 provided by the
Secret Service.
The gift was a crystal bird which
the mayor described as "something
for Mrs. Ford's kitchen table."
The First Lady's blue and white
DC9 jet, with "United States of
America" painted on its sides, touch-
ed down just a few minutes after its
scheduled 10:30 a.m. arrival.
Mrs. Ford, wearing e tan suit, de-
scended the steps carefully and was
greeted by the Perks and Ruth Mill-
er, Cleveland health director.
Mrs. Miller then hopped into the
mayor's personal limousine and left
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CAROLYN:
Re the attached:
They have no offices but I have uncovered two contacts
to whom a letter could be sent, but I don't know if either
was involved in the presentation. I would recommend
tha t a letter be sent to:
Fashion Group of Cleveland
c/o Beverly Keene, Regional Director
Hamill, Keene and Fishman
355 Richmond Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44143
PETE
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completion of this torm,
rward immediately to the
THANK YOU LETTERS
Event Cleveland, Ohio
vance Office with a car-
= copy.
Date October 25, 1975
Advanceman Peter Sorum
XE & ADDRESS
SALUTATION
DESCRIPTION
Mayor and Mrs. Ralph Perk
Dear Ralph and Lucille
Met Mrs. Ford at Cleveland Airport and
City Hall
rode with her to theBond Court Hotel.
Cleveland, Ohio
Presented her with flowers and a gift.
Mr. and Mrs. James LaDu
Dear Jim and June
Met Mrs. Ford at Bond Court Hotel and
General Manager
escorted her to the Presidential Suite
Bond Court Hotel
where she cut a ribbon to officially open
East Sixth at St. Clair Avenue
the Suite.
Mrs. Scott R. York
Dear Gwi 11
General Chairperson of the Greater
700 National City Bank Building
Cleveland Congress for International Women's
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Year. Met and escorted Mrs. Ford during
visit. Key to the success of the Congress.
Special word to her husband Scott, whom
Mrs. Ford met would bę appropriate.
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To Guill York,
with appreciation glast
wilhes
B7.
Mrs. Scott R. York
700 National city
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clevelas, Ohio
44114
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CAROLYN:
Here are the addresses you requested:
Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
181-B Raj Pur Road
Dehra Dun
U.P.
India
Mrs. Claudia Guzzo
Cuyahoga County Republican Party
1512 Euclid
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
PETE
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Iim of June LaDu.
Bond Cout Hotel
clevelard OLD
SECURITY R. FORD LIBRARY
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mr. and Mrs. James LaDu
General Manager
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Bond Court Hotel
East Sixth at St. Clair Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
To June and Jim LaDu
With appreciation and Warm best wishes,
Betty Ford
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON,
GERALD D.C. LIBRARY
Mrs. Gwill York
Chairperson, The Greater Cleveland
Congress
International Women's Year
700 National City Bank Building
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
To Gwill York
With appreciation and warm best wishes,
Betty Ford
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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GE GERALD
Mrs. Claudia Guzzo
Cuyahoga County Republican Party
1512 Euclid
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
To Claudia Guzzo
With best wishes,
Betty Ford
VIA STATE DEPARTMENT POUCH
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
FORD LIBRARY & GERALD
Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
181-B Raj Pur Road
Dehra Dun
U.P.
India
To Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
With appreciation and warm best wishes,
Betty Ford
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLEVELAND
extends its heartiest congratulations to MRS. BETTY FORD
on the occasion of your VISIT TO IWY CONVENTION
CLEVELAND, OHIO OCT. 25, 197
Councilman
MARY ROSE OAKAR
has apprised the Council of this event which is a
most noteworthy occasion in your career.
THE CITY COUNCIL extends its warmest
felicitations and congratulations to you on this im-
portant event in your career and offers its best wishes
for continued success and happiness in the years
abead.
Ralph J. Perk, mayor
Deo. L. Forbes
President of Council
OF
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
bereunto subscribed my hand and
affixed the official seal of the Council
of the City of Cleveland.
Mercedes Cotner
Clerk of Council
auroville
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Matagiri, Mt. Tremper, N.Y. 12457
What
Auroville
is
about
Auroville...
Sri Aurobindo came to tell the world of the beauty
is named after Sri Aurobindo, the embodied synthesis of the East
of the future that must be realized. He came not
and the West; is situated to the North of Pondicherry, about 100 miles
to give a hope but a certitude of the splendour
south of Madras, on the Coromandel Coast along the Bay of Bengal;
towards which the world moves. The world is not
has a tropical climate; will eventually house 50.000 inhabitants;
an unfortunate incident, it is a marvel which moves
was inaugurated on the 28th of February 1968.
towards its expression.
and
Humanity is not the last rung of terrestrial creation.
in its Aurovilians, who come from all over the world, from France,
Evolution continues and man will be surpassed.
Mexico, the U.S.A., Germany, Argentina, Sweden, Australia, India,
It is for each one to know whether he wants to
The Netherlands, England, Italy, Belgium, Canada
participate in the advent of the new species.
in its communities, called Hope, Aspiration, Promesse, Fraternity,
Auroville wants consciously to work towards
Peace, Auroson's Home, Utility, Unity
hastening that advent.
in its fraternal collaboration with and assistance to the local population,
Auroville wants to be a universal town where
in villages named Kuilapalayam, Edaiyanchavadi, Kottakarai
men and women of all countries are able to live
in its building-sites, on which are arising the Matrimandir (the House
in peace and progressive harmony, above all
of the Mother), Bharat Nivas (the pavilion of India), Auromodel,
creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The
the Sanskrit House, residential houses, schools
purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.
in its industries, such as Toujours Mieux (tools and machinery),
Auropress, the hand-made paper factory, Udavi (incense sticks),
Auroville wants to be a creation expressing a new
Auropolyester, Auroelectronics, Takshnalaya (woodworking unit)
consciousness in a new way and according to
in its services, the bakery, the health centre, the meteorological
new methods.
station, the nursery, the children's centre, Auro-garage, Aurocreation
(handicraft), Filmaur, Pour Tous
Auroville will provide a model for those who
in its agricultural projects, Service Farm, New Farm, Annapurna
aspire for a better and higher collective life
Farm, Auro-dairy, Auro-poultry, Auro-orchard
everywhere.
From sayings of the Mother.
in its educational activities at Last School, After School, Super School,
No School, in community programs, experimentation, physical
The Auroville project was adopted unanimously
training
by the fifteenth conference of UNESCO in Paris, 1968.
city of Dawn
city of the Future
Auroville Charter
city of Human Unity
1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular.
3. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the
Auroville bèlongs to humanity as a whole.
past and the future. Taking advantage of all
But to live in Auroville one must be a willing
discoveries from without and from within,
servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
Auroville will boldly spring towards future
realizations.
2. Auroville will be the place of an unending
education, of constant progress and a youth
4. Auroville will be a site of material and
that never ages.
spiritual research for a living embodiment
of an actual Human Unity.
A DREAM
There should be somewhere upon
intellectual, moral and spiritual super-
earth a place that no nation could claim
iority will find expression not in
as its sole property, a place where all
the enhancement of the pleasures and
human beings of goodwill, sincere in
powers of life but in the increase of duties
their aspiration could live freely as
and responsibilities. Artistic beauty in all
citizens of the world, obeying one single
forms, painting, sculpture, music, liter-
authority, that of the supreme Truth, a
ature, will be available equally to all,
place of peace, concord, harmony,
the opportunity to share in the joys they
where all the fighting instincts of man
give being limited solely by each one's
would be used exclusively to conquer
capacities and not by social or financial
the causes of his sufferings and miseries,
position. For in this ideal place money
to surmount his weakness and ignor-
would be no more the sovereign lord.
ance, to triumph over his limitations
Individual value would have a greater
and incapacities; a place where the
importance than the value due to mate-
needs of the spirit and the care for pro-
rial wealth and social position. Work
gress would get precedence over the
would not be there as the means for
satisfaction of desires and passions, the
gaining one's livelihood, it would be the
seeking for material pleasures and en-
means whereby to express oneself, deve-
joyment. In this place children would
lop one's capacities and possibilities,
be able to grow and develop integrally
while doing at the same time service to
without losing contact with their soul.
the whole group, which on its side,
Education would be given not with a
would provide for each one's subsis-
view to passing examinations and get-
tence and for the field of his work. In
ting certificates and posts but for en-
brief, it would be a place where the rela-
riching the existing faculties and bring-
tions among human beings, usually
ing forth new ones. In this place titles
based almost exclusively upon competi-
and positions would be supplanted by
tion and strife, would be replaced by
opportunities to serve and organise.
relations of emulation for doing better,
The needs of the body will be provided
for collaboration, relations of real
for equally in the case of each and
brotherhood.
everyone. In the general organisation
THE MOTHER
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AUROVILLE
You can read works by or about Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Auroville
Write to Matagiri for complete booklist of 300 titles.
You can contribute something if you have more than you need
Building Auroville costs money. You can help a better future take
place. Tax exempt contributions may be sent to:
Sri Aurobindo Society
Auroville Association
3124 Supont Avenue South
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Office Work
in Cleveland
Statistical Study
Cleveland Women Working-CWW
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WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE
There are 305,122 women and 527,989 men employed
in the Cleveland area. Women are 37% of the Cleveland
area workforce. (Table I) Of Cleveland area workers,
162,458 are clerical workers; 118,773 of these are
women. Women are 73% of the clerical workforce.
R.
(Table II).
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WAGES
Although women are 37% of the workforce, they
receive only 20% of the wages paid to Cleveland area
employees. Their annual median earnings are $4,065
compared to $8,981 for men. (Table I)
In the clerical field, where women are 73% of the
workforce, they receive only 60% of the earnings. The
average female clerical's wages are only 56% of the
wages paid to a male clerical. (Table II)
In sum, although women are crucial to the opera-
of Cleveland businesses, they are inadequately rewarded
for their labor.
WAGE COMPARISON
In comparison with other job categories, Cleveland
office workers are becoming poorer. For the years from
1961 through 1974 annual earnings for office workers in
Cleveland have risen only 3.9% on the average. This is
at least 20% less than any other occupational grouping.
Inotherwords, Cleveland office workers are losing
buying power in comparison with workers holding other
jobs.
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INTRODUCTION
Cleveland is a major corporate, financial and indus-
trial center. A large clerical workforce supports this
structure. Without women office workers businesses
would stop functioning and essential services could not
be rendered.
Despite this vital role, Cleveland Women Working's
statistical study shows widespread inequality and
unfair wages for women office workers. Cleveland em-
ployers are denying women office workers the respect,
the salaries, the job training, and the promotion oppor-
tunities that their key position in the economy demands.
Statistics are taken entirely from the Department
of Commerce publication "Detailed General Social and
Economic Characteristics of Massachusetts"; Operational
Statistics of the Employment Standards Administration,
U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division; and
the Area Wage Survey of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Compared to other cities, the situation of
Cleveland's office workers is a desperate one.
Statistics collected from the top eighty metropolitan
areas for the years 1961-1974 indicate that the
income of a Cleveland office worker has risen at a
much slower rate than in most other cities. In fact,
Cleveland ranks 79th on the list of 80, followed
only by Charleston, West Virginia.
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A majority of women workers in the Cleveland
area are employed in sales, clerical and service
jobs. Of the total jobs in this category women
hold 64% as compared to 36% for men. (Table III)
In terms of professional, managerial and techni-
cal jobs men hold 71% of these while women hold 29%.
In otherwords, women are employed predominantly
at the bottom of the economic ladder. Women in top
positions are scarce. Further, the valuable labor
they perform in the positions they do occupy is
not adequately rewarded in salary.
EDUCATION
Are women's lower earnings related to a lower
level of education? No. Both men and women in the
Cleveland area receive an average of 12.4 years of
education. (Table IV) Discrimination against
Cleveland area women office workers can not be ex-
plained on this basis.
ILLEGAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
Sex discrimination in pay, hiring, promotions,
training, or any other aspect of employment is pro-
hibited by four laws:
Ohio Revised Code Sex Discrimination 1973
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Pay Provisions of the Fair Labor
Standards Act
Executive Order 11246
The statistics already listed show a marked pat-
tern of inequality and disrespect for the labor of the
woman worker in Cleveland. But to be more specific:
If Cleveland employers were complying with the
four anti-discrimination laws, we would find no cases
of:
women being paid less than men who do similar or
comparable work
women being denied promotions in favor of men with
less experience
women training men to become their own supervisors
women titled and paid as secretaries performing
administrative or other higher paying work
female secretaries permitted to take only secretarial
training courses, excluded from management training
that men participate in
women holding a majority of all jobs in an office,
with men holding a majority of the administrative
jobs
women advancing in job title and salary more
slowly than men.
These situations are no rarity in Cleveland offices.
In fact, Cleveland Women Working has found countless ex-
amples of illegal discrimination of exactly the types
listed above.
TABLE I
Number of Cleveland Area Employees by Sex,
Including Average Earnings
Male
Female
Total
number %
number %
number %
number
527,989---63%
305,122--37%
833,111--100%
earnings
$8981-80%
$4065-20%
$6114
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TABLE II
Number of Employees in the Clerical Workforce by Sex,
Including Average Earnings
Male
Female
Total
number %
number %
number %
number
43,685--27%
118,773---73%
162,458
earnings
$7937-40%
$4510--60%
TABLE III
Number of Workers in Selected Occupational Groups by Sex
Male
Female
Total
Prof., mana-
gers, tech.
132,877--71%
54,223-29%
187,100
Sales, cler.,
service
81,454-36%
143,977--64%
225,431
TABLE IV
Education of Cleveland Area Workers by Sex
Average Years of School Completed
males
12.4
females
12.4
total
12.4
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Cleveland Women Working began in May,
1975. We were a group of working women
concerned about problems on our jobs. We
decided to research the general situation of
women working in Cleveland. We found
widespread discrimination. More specifi-
cally we found problems such as low wages,
and poor benefits, women being paid less
than men for equal work, poor promotion
opportunities, doing personal work for the
boss, and unfair regulations applied to
women (like dress codes).
We aim to win fair and legal
treatment for working women
We decided to organize to do
throughout the city by using a variety
something about these problems that
of tactics: pressuring government agencies
we have all been grumbling about for
to enforce the law; pressuring companies
years.
to change unfair policies; helping CWW
We will produce a newsletter, a
members to right wrongs on the job.
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The right to comprehensive medical coverage for any
the following rights:
temporary disability without jeopardizing our seniority,
benefits or pensions.
The right to respect as women. and as office workers.
The right to maternity benefits and to having pregnancy
The right to comprehensive, written job descriptions
and other gynecological conditions treated as temporary
specifying the nature of all duties expected of the
medical disabilities.
employee.
The right to benefits equal to those of men in similar
The right to detailed descriptions specifying compen-
job categories.
sation, terms, conditions and benefits of employment.
The right to equal access to promotion opportunities
The right to compensation for overtime work.
and on-the-job-training programs.
The right to choose whether to do personal work of
The freedom to participate in on-the-job organizing
employers (typing personal letters, serving coffee,
or outside activities which do not detract from the
running out for lunch.)
execution of assigned tasks.
The right to defined and regular salary reviews and
An end to discrimination on the basis of sex, age, race,
cost-of-living increases.
marital status or parenthood.
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1915-1975
60 Years of Professional Resident Theatre
1915 CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE 1975
"What's past is
prologue. What is to come
is yours and my discharge
Antonio,
THE TEMPEST, I, //
The Once and Future Play House: Commentary from its Director
The souvenir program you are about to read must be regarded merely as an outline depicting the Play
House in the years since Frederic McConnell came on the scene in 1921. The early years, up to the opening
of the Drury Theatre, have already been documented well by one of the Play House founders, Julia Flory, in
her book, THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE - HOW IT BEGAN.
This program attempts, in a brief fashion, to hit the highpoints of those decades involving the
establishment and growth of a professional resident staff; a more detailed history is still to be written.
I share, with many still associated with the theatre, a sense of pride and excitement in that we have
been around long enough to have known personally many of the key people, the actors, the directors, the
supporters, who have made this institution the living, pulsing entity it is today.
And of the future?
We are not only financially but sentimentally wise to concentrate our energies on those assets we already
have at hand. To this end, the Play House has been slowly making an effort to gain the use of property
adjacent to its 86th Street location.
We have been able to expand our parking facilities, but still desperately need room for further growth, to
realize long-planned supplements to the theatre's primary function of producing plays.
An institution of this vintage has incredible archives, which should be available and accessible to theatre
students and historians. We must create a library.
The Euclid-77th Theatre Gallery is limited and space is needed for permanent displays of theatre
memorabilia, such as costumes, the marionettes which were so important an aspect of the early years,
sketches, set models: these must be brought to light also.
Rehearsal space to convert quickly into an auditorium for studio productions. Property and costume
storage. An educational wing for expanded Youth Theatre programs: space requirements are endless for the
theatre's future growth.
With new space and new programs to inaugurate, we will continue our forward surge. We have recently
enjoyed an expansion of activities with John Carroll University, Cleveland State University, the College of
Wooster, Case Western Reserve University, University Circle, the Cleveland Clinic, the Health Museum and
the Fairfax Foundation.
We will be working even more energetically with all of these and others in the future. As they are
growing, so must the Play House.
"What's past is prologue
Richard Oberlin
Richard Oberlin
REED THOMASON "1915"
Season commemorative drawing by Reed Thomason
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1915-1975
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Comment from the Director
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World wars. Border skirmishes. Depressions and recessions: somehow, the Play House has
Introduction
5
weathered them all in its sixty indomitable years.
Plants and People
6
The tickets used to cost a quarter - but that's part of a long-ago era when the nation's oldest
The Next Stride Forward
6
professional resident theatre was going through its birth pangs not born in a trunk, as theatrical
Money Matters
6
legends go, but in a barn.
The Subscription
7
Now a jubilant sixty years lie behind it; it faces the future with exuberance and zest.
Posters: An Evolution
9
Physically, the main plant still stands as it did when it opened In 1927, having survived a
demographic transition from its location in the tranquil gardens of a distinguished estate, through an
The Directors/ The Presidents
10
all too common urban deterioration, to its present position - in a reviving neighborhood, surrounded
A Day in the Life of the Company We Keep
12
by stolld, prosperous Institutional neighbors. Of its land, of its city.
Name Dropping
13
The past is its present, its present, its future; only three permanent directors have presided over
Play House Photos from the Archives
14
the theatre in its 60 years. Each has overlapped in administration, and this fact Itself probably is, more
The Play House in the Community
19
than any other, responsible for the great sense of continuum which exists within the theatre. Each man
The Play House Comes to School
19
has been abreast of the times, each innovative, but with admirable caution and restraint, each aware of
The Student Festival
19
the delicate balance of the Institution in a sensible relationship to its community and to the world of
theatre as well as the theatre of the world.
The Youth Theatre
20
Theatre Workshop
20
This directorial sensitivity, or awareness of what its public needs or desires, is perhaps a key factor
in the "ongoing-ness" of the theatre.
The Gallery at East-77th Street
20
When a world at war looked for frivolity and a suspension of its day-to-day tensions, the Play House
Chautauqua
20
was there with the CLAUDIAs, the DEAR RUTHs.
The Apprentice and Other Training Programs
20
When its audiences became more sophisticated (the advent of television helped) - the Play House
Play House Auxiliaries
21
was there with a WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. When it yearned for nostalgia, when it
The Women's Committee
21
demanded innovation the Play House produced such varied fare as an exotic version of THE BIRDS
The Men's Committee
21
complete with a rock score a HAY FEVER a CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF an ENDGAME. Instead of
The Play House Club
21
just another HAMLET a definitive HAMLET which set Shakespeare box office records.
Through the Years: The Play House Repertory
22
But far from existing just to please its public, the Play House forged ahead challenging it with over
60 world premieres. Many productions, if not these, were then American premieres or their first
The Presidents and Board
30
west-of-the-Hudson performances.
With three plants, the theatre is able to offer a great variety of entertainment; this very versatility -
the capacity to entertain so many with so much - has sometimes made the theatre subject to criticism
of lack of a specific artistic direction.
Wisely, the Play House rejoins: what theatre shares its claim to longevity? What Shakespeare
Festival or another, begun with noble purposes and vivid statements of cultural dedication, has not been
Book written and designed by Rice Hershey, Hershey-Kates Creative Associates, Cleveland, Ohio 44121 With Special Thanks to
obliged to eventually produce Moliere, Tennessee Williams, Brecht and Weill? Perhaps these other
research assistance from Mrs. Leonore Klewer, Mrs. Hildegarde Stashower, Mr. Peter Bellamy, Cleveland PLAIN DEALER,
Mr. Herbert Mansfield, Cleveland Public Library, Mr. William Lempke and Miss Paula Bond, Cleveland Play House.
theatres miss the very purpose of the Play House - to offer the broadest possible
Artwork by H. Gunther Gerzo
Anthony Fatica
Donald Trentel
Julia Flory
William Sommer
Richard Gould
Joe Dale
spectrum of living theatre.
Lunday Season commemorative drawing by Reed Thomason
Season logotype by Clifford Benuska
Directorial portraits
Rolling with the punch? Copping out? It is, rather, the basic axiom of "the survival of the fittest"
by Swisky
Mary Brooks
Elinor Korow.
demonstrated in this 60th season with a joyful resonance!
PHOTO
CREDITS:
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Bliss
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Buck, Jr.
J.R. Burroughs
Charles
Caron
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Daly Associates
James
Fry
Hastings-Willinger
Studios
Josephine U. Herrick
Irving Studio
Madelyn
Lefkowitz
Miller-Ertler Studios
Rebman Photographers, Inc.
Frank Reed
David Rosenbloom
Barney Taxel
Trout-Ware Studios.
Typesetting by LaDua, Inc. Headline copy in Serif Gothic, Body Type Helvetica, Roster and Credits News Gothic Condensed.
CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE 1915-1975
Assembly and composition by Ad-Man Graphics, Inc.; printed by Perlmuter Printing Company.
THE PLAY HOUSE WISHES TO MAKE SPECIAL HONORARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO Helen Halmen Joseph
Verda
Stewart
David Warshawsky
Walter Haas
Mrs. Norma Williams.
Permission is hereby granted to reproduce this booklet, all or in part. Please credit the Cleveland Play House.
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PLANTS AND
became, as its sister on 86th Street, a
principal, which would then be available for
But the Play House appears to be on the
theatrical structure of major significance.
expansion, cash flow crises, renovation or
brink of an exceptionally exciting artistic
In 1958, McConnell passed the reins to his
even rebuilding, should the occasion arise.
resurgence.
PEOPLE
000000
cohort, K. Elmo Lowe, who had come with
The 1974-75 season met this obligation, and
Just as the public has become
him from Carnegie Tech in 1921, and he
the grant was given unconditionally.
media-ocratized and looks for a Penderecki
The early years of the Play House,
recounted charmingly by Julia Flory in her
remained as Consulting Director until the
To participate in such funding of course
instead of a Tchiakowsky, it is so
1965 volume, THE CLEVELAND PLAY
1961-62 season when he mounted a
obliged the theatre to become more
benumbed by sitcoms (Simon live is light
HOUSE - HOW IT BEGAN told of how the
production of Pirandello's ENRICO IV
venturesome in its appeal for local monies;
years ahead of Simon canned) that it looks
to the Pinter challenge
the new Russian
theatre formed first as a group of intellectual
before retiring permanently to Laguna.
therefore, innovative new approaches were
Clevelanders, bored with the commercial
In 1923, Lowe's wife, Dorothy Paxton
taken in such areas as group sales, industrial
work
the Ortons, the Bonds, the
theatre available to them, came together to
came to Cleveland, also from Carnegie Tech,
solicitation and public fund drives.
Cohans revived - the new, the historic, a
explore work filtering in from Europe.
to begin an acting career which continued
premiere of new work by Lee and Lawrence
of INHERIT THE WIND fame
some
Stanislavsky
the writing of Maeterlinck
for over fifty years. Their daughter, Stanja,
THE SUBSCRIPTION:
a
made her adult Play House debut in
classics re-interpreted: a Play House, with
a rising genius, Max Reinhardt
budding new American, Eugene O'Neill.
1949, thus beginning an impressive father,
its incredible physical possibilities - can
EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION
They read of them, then began to read from
mother and daughter acting trio.
offer a bit of everything. A review of the
theatre's 60-year repertory beginning on
them - and eventually, gave in to the
The Play House audience was accustomed
inevitable desire to mount actual
for years to a rather informal coupon plan in
page 22 attests to this.
productions, under the aegis of
THE MATTER OF
which booklets of ten tickets could be
Raymond O'Neill.
purchased and used in multiples of as many
By 1917, O'Neill's group, in which actress
MONEY:
as six at once. As a result, popular
Katherine Wick Kelly was a leading force,
had acquired a church in which they
performed frequently. In 1921, the group,
Uddhah
productions could be attended in a whimsical
MONEY MATTERS
fashion; it was not uncommon to witness a
production playing to sold out houses on
motivated by Walter Flory, began to realize
During McConnell's tenure - and partly
Friday and Saturday evenings, virtually
that they must either disband or restructure
during Lowe's - the men maintained
deserted on other nights - even though a
themselves with professional guidance.
vigorously that the theatres should be self
surcharge was levied on weekend coupons.
supporting and exist solely on box office
Enter Frederic McConnell, who with two
THE NEXT STRIDE
When Richard Oberlin became Director
receipts.
assistants, Max Eisenstat and K. Elmo Lowe
in 1971, he, with the supportive backing of
- and a singular sense of great theatrical
However, with the advent of the
FORWARD
Ford Foundation experts, was able to
Euclid-77th Theatre and the inevitable
purpose - began to transform the nebulous
convince the Board of Trustees of the need to
group into a carefully molded professional
postwar inflationary years, they both gave
restructure the theatres into a "Single
company. Working first in a converted
Succeeding beyond all projections, in the
grudging assent to the fact that the theatre
Series" subscription plan perhaps the most
church, within a brief, seven-year span, he
late '40s, McConnell convinced his Board of
arts even though they practiced them with
important financially forward step in the
had established a theatre of such stability
Trustees of the necessity of opening a
literally a shoestring budget - required
theatre's history.
and permanence, that those with whom he
second complex in a nearby church; it did in
substantial outside support.
Audience reaction was at first somewhat
worked came up with enough support and
1949 with a striking production of ROMEO
The theatre had to remain the
cautionary. What they had quite readily
AND JULIET. The Euclid-77th Theatre had
funding to open the Drury and Brooks
competitive, low priced institution that it had
accepted for their Browns or Brahms was
theatres in the gardens of the Francis Drury
come into being.
been in conception; it was, indeed, obliged
somehow difficult to accept for their Beckett
estate on East 86th Street.
It, too, was as definitive in its own way as
to, in its not-for-profit institutional status.
or Barry. A small problem, easily overcome:
A small man with great ideas and ideals,
was the building at East 86th Street.
K. Elmo Lowe became the prime mover in
now a solid subscription base gives the Play
McConnell had literally gathered together
McConnell had dabbled at the drawing board
this new phase of funding, realizing that the
House a very special financial security it had
the beginnings of the nation's oldest resident
for years conceptualizing a facility which
theatres, even running at capacity, could
never possessed previously.
professional theatre, although the road had
would hearken back to the days of the
cover perhaps only three-fifths of operating
Certainly, the need exists for
been paved for him by a number of
theatre in ancient Grecian, Roman and
expenses.
substantial outside funding (the eight-play
Elizabethan times.
far-sighted Clevelanders, most prominently,
Further, the regional theatre movement
subscription series is still competitive with
Charles S. Brooks, Walter L. Flory, and, of
A stage would thrust into a steep, shallow
had burgeoned. Royalties escalated. Once
movie ticket prices). But with the plan, the
course, the Drury family, who together saw
house, the audience forming its perimeters,
desperate-for-work actors suddenly had
Play House gained a greater independence,
the great potential which lay ahead for the
in close rapport with the cast.
other options for employment - as did
an ability to forecast expenditures even
theatre.
The idea, realized by McConnell and
designers and directors. It was mandatory to
before a season's start. Because he has three
The Romanesque plant at East 86th Street
Francis K. Draz, who had served so
begin matching the competition in wages
theatres to fill, Oberlin has also an enormous
was a glorious conception - still thrilling to
brilliantly as architect for the other theatres,
and salaries.
artistic opportunity with the plan.
theatre enthusiasts and students. A small
suddenly became the object of national
The magisterial Ford Foundation came
He can reserve weeks within a season for
theatre, seating 160, in warm brick tones. A
attention. Thrust stages in all manners of
on the scene, recognizing that regional
sure-fire, non-series frivolities (the 1974-75
larger one, paneled in wood with maroon
adaptation became the rage. The pioneer
theatres, unlike symphony orchestras and art
HAY FEVER) or for special kinds of plays
decor, accommodating 500.
effort of these men became the
museums, were rarely the recipients of
which might or might not catch on, but
A mutual scene shop and dressing rooms.
norm against which all new stages were
endowment monies.
productions for which a demand exists
measured.
Infinite fly space. Spacious backstage areas.
They began innovative funding in theatre.
nevertheless. Two gambles in the 1974-75
Incredible acoustics - before acoustics
As Shakespeare Festivals became city,
The Play House was given a grant to train
season represent this challenge: THE SEA
became the rarified science they are today.
state and national events, their variants on
and send out a touring company. It later
HORSE (which caught on with the public)
A plant so ahead of its time that its only
the thrust stage also became mandatory.
made, under Richard Oberlin, a substantial
and COLETTE (which didn't).
inadequacies were eventually to be a lack of
The Euclid-77th Theatre was not without
grant, which, when matched by the theatre
The 1975-76 roster reflects perhaps more
Set rendition by H. Gunther Gerzo for Sean O'Casey's WITHIN THE GATES
parking space and lighting facilities, which,
problems at the outset. Sound reverberated
through its own fund-raising efforts and
than ever the venturesomeness the series
('36-'37). Gerzo later achieved acclaim internationally as painter.
with the emergence of transistors, computers
vividly through a dome. The original concept
maintained for a four year period, would
plan affords Oberlin. He admits quite freely
Many early Play House stage settings reflected the influence of Adolphe
and other postwar technological advances,
of a stage with no proscenium arch created
become a permanent gift, thus establishing a
that its first two years were somewhat
Appia and Gordon Craig, two designers who were revolutionizing staging concepts
in the same period Cleveland's theatre was aborning.
became obsolete. Both of these deficiencies
setting as well as sight line problems. A false
cash reserve fund. Keeping such funds in
exploratory in their planning; the theatre's
have since been rectified and the building
ceiling and a minor architectural adjustment
high interest certificates of deposit, the
patrons are as deserving of their Neil Simon
itself recognized as a National Historic Place.
corrected these; and after these alterations, it
theatre could exist without touching its
as their Shakespeare, after all.
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BALTIMORE.
THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE
poster for last season's THE HOT L
LANFORD WILSON'S NEW DRAMA
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techniques, as represented in the
latest in sophisticated photo
the Play House has also employed the
Minatodani. In the past few seasons,
Flory, Bill Scott and Keiichi
is depicted here; others include Julia
whose poster for 1918's EVERYMAN
such notables as William Sommer,
productions. Among them have been
students creating posters for specific
artists began their careers as art
strangers" in the graphic arts. Many
dependent on the kindness of
The Play House, has often "been
AN EVOLUTION
POSTERS:
BALTMORE
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LEVELAND-1918
THE PLAYHOUSE
EVERYMAN
were by Fred Voelpel.
costumes and settings
Ranelli directed;
melancholy Dane. J
James Sutorius as the
production featured
Play House season. The
Drury Theatre in the 58th
was presented in the
HAMLET ever produced
States mountings of
most successful United
Perhaps one of the
PRODUCTION
HAMLET, 1972-73
THE DIRECTORS/THE PRESIDENTS:
SHARED GOALS,
SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES
Frederic McConnell
K. Elmo Lowe
Richard Oberlin
Freden Whoma
Richard Ottain
It would take a far weightier tome than
Charles Brooks for an example got the
He also recognized that if the theatre
this to describe the various accomplishments
institution off the ground, literally. Others,
were to compete with other media, it must
of the three Directors of the Play House -
like Jay Iglauer, were credited with keeping
look beyond its usual sources of income;
or to single out Presidents of the Board of
the theatre's doors open during financially
through his efforts, the theatre began to
Trustees who have contributed notably to the
troubled years. Still others, like Kenyon
receive grants from such varied sources as
success of the theatre.
Bolton, brought a zeal and a personal
the National Endowment for the Arts, the
involvement to the position, democratizing
Ohio Arts Council, the Cleveland Foundation,
Under Play House bylaws, the Board of
the theatre, in a way, by hosting or chairing
The Jennings Foundation, The Gund and
Trustees names a Director for all operations
special events which involved a far greater
Beaumont Foundations, and many others.
of the theatre; his is a total autonomy, both
public than that usually regarded as the
He and Fallon also broadened the base of
artistically and financially. He alone is
closely knit Play House "family." The current
industrial and corporate support, the theatre
responsible for the selection of not only his
President, Harold Fallon, has brought the
already having established a good working
acting company, the repertoire, and other
theatre to a new threshold of growth with his
relationship with local foundations whose
stage related activities, but also for the entire
unstinting energy. Each President has, in his
generosity has been responsible not only for
ancillary staff, from the box office through
way, added specifically to the betterment of
specific project grants, but for contributions
the custodial. He prepares an annual budget
the theatre again, contributions too vast to
to overall operating monies as well. The
and submits it to this same Board for
enumerate here.
audience has grown from perhaps a few
approval.
The Play House, after the retirement of K.
hundred a year in its formative years to
When Frederic McConnell was chosen in
Elmo Lowe, faced a difficult transition period
more than 150,000 annually.
1921 by the Board of Trustees, he was given
in finding a new Director. William Greene,
Oberlin came to the Play House from
a free hand in picking his nearest coworkers.
after spending a year in association with Mr.
Wooster College and Indiana University in
McConnell, who had a law degree from the
Lowe and Leonore Klewer learning the nuts
1955, and had acted in, or directed, almost
University of Nebraska, had become
and bolts of the theatre, met an untimely
200 productions before his appointment as
interested in theatre and had continued
death after taking over the theatre as
Director.
studies at Carnegie Tech. From the same
Managing Director for just a season. The void
university, he hired two key people who were
was filled temporarily with the appointment
He had also served as Company Manager
instrumental in the later success of the
of Rex Partington, his business manager, to
for the Play House National Touring
theatre: K. Elmo Lowe, as an Associate
Company which visited forty states from
the same position.
1961 to 1963.
Director, and Max Eisenstat, who was later
In 1971, Richard Oberlin was appointed
to become vitally important in business
During the Cleveland Summer Arts
Managing Director, and the following year,
management of the theatre.
given the title of Director - only the third
Festival in 1967 and 1968, he was producer
for the Play House, and until his
Soon to appear on the scene was
man in theatre's history to be so honored.
Hildegarde Darmstadter Stashower, who
Oberlin appointed Larry Tarrant as his
appointment as Managing Director in 1971,
handled public relations and became an
Associate Director in 1973, James Sweeney
he was Resident Director of the Play House
Assistant Director. She founded among other
his Business Manager in 1972 and Ric
Summer Theatre at Chautauqua, New York
things the Women's Committee and the
Wanetik to the newly created post of Director
for four seasons. He was named Play House
Director in 1972.
Student Festival and for many years handled
of Public Affairs in 1975.
Public Relations for the theatre.
In addition to the administrative duties
During the 1972-73 season, Harold Fallon
Also early on was Kirk Willis, who came
was named as President of the Play House.
which Mr. Oberlin assumed during his years
to the theatre directly from high school, and
He and Oberlin have moved ahead into the
at the Play House, he remained a leading
actor and director for the theatre.
who, over the years, became not only a
future, already developing the next
notable actor, but a staff director, especially
fateful years in the theatre's history.
He is a member of the Theatre Panel of
admired for his work in furthering the
Under Oberlin's aegis, the Play House
the Ohio Arts Council and the National
Shakespeare Festival's reach.
regained internal and financial stability with
Theatre Conference as well as being an
A sixth key person in the operation was
his single most important contribution to
Adjunct Professor of Theatre at Case
engaged as a secretary: Leonore Katz, who,
date, the conversion of the theatre's
Western Reserve University and Instructor
eventually as Leonore Klewer, emerged as
antiquated subscription booklet plan into a
of Cleveland State University.
Theatre Manager under K. Elmo Lowe.
streamlined, efficient single series program
In March, 1973, Mr. Oberlin toured West
All three Directors of the Play House have
that provided not only a solid audience base,
Germany as a guest of the Federal Republic
received invaluable support from the
but a financial one as well. Oberlin can also
of Germany. The invitation came as a special
Presidents of the Play House, who are listed
be credited with expanding the theatre's
honor, since he was one of the only two
on page 30. These men have been unstinting
participation in its community with a number
professional Resident Theatre Directors in
of their time and imagination in creating the
of innovative programs, such as "The Play
1915-1975
this country asked to make the special
institution as it stands today. Some -
House Comes to School."
theatre tour.
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE COMPANY WE KEEP
NAME DROPPING
some play house alumni
The acting company of the Play House has grown over the years
Some actors, while not living days crowded with rehearsals and
GREG ABELS
JON JORY
SUSAN SMITH
to a seasonal complement of 55 or more actors, supplemented by a
evenings with performances, are responsible for a number of not
Stage and TV Actor
Producing Director of Actors
Theatrical Agent NYC and LA
non-acting body of 30 or more technicians, public relations, box
so visible roles. They teach classes in the Youth Theatre. They take
ALAN ALDA
Theatre of Louisville, Ky.
DAVID SNELL
office, custodial and security bodies.
on such specialties as sound consultation, coaching in such areas as
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
Playwright
Stage and TV Actor
JOHN ANDERSON
CHARLES KEATING
KATHERINE SQUIRE
Originally, a number of actors who began their careers before
body movement or fencing, screening new manuscripts (the Play
Screen, TV Actor
Stage Director and Actor
Stage and TV Actress
the advent of Frederic McConnell, became integrated into the
House receives at least one unsolicited play a day for every day of
PETER BARTLETT
PHILLIP KERR
SUSAN SULLIVAN
company. Quite often, they had a large public following and
the year) for possible production, or function as roving trouble
Stage Actor
Stage Actor
Stage and TV Actress
shooters, assisting in special public relations or benefit projects.
LLOYD BATTISTA
JACK LEE
SHIRLEY BRYAN SWETLAND
worked mostly for the sheer joy of acting.
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
Broadway Musical Director
Stage Actress
Many of the current staff have become more-or-less permanent
The obvious duty of maintaining performance diaries, called
EDWARD BINNS
STANJA LOWE
WILLIAM SWETLAND
residents of the community; additionally, Cleveland is blessed with
"the book," which serve as a complete annotation of a production,
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
Stage and TV Actress
Stage and Screen Actor
is assigned to either the Stage Manager or the Assistant to the
JOE BOVA
JOHN LUDWIG
IRENE TEDROW
a number of professional actors who occasionally enjoy an on-stage
Stage, TV Actor
Director of Wolf Trap Foundation
Stage
Screen and TV Actress
appearance while still maintaining other careers. They are, never-
Director of a production.
CLAYTON CORZATTE
for the Performing Arts
NORMAN TWAIN
theless, avowed and committed professionals.
Actors also assist in maintaining the vast Play House archives,
Stage Director and Actor
Filene Center
New York Producer
Within the acting company, aspiring young people (Apprentices
preserved in scrapbooks which are of inestimable value to theatre
FRANKLIN COVER
researchers, a "morgue," shelves of envelopes containing clippings
Stage and TV Actor
and Fellowship students) are woven into the fabric of the theatre as
THOMAS CULLINAN
part of a two year program - quite often, making their first pro-
of reviews and commentary collected on nearly every major pro-
Playwright (Stage and Screen)
fessional step forward.
duction to have played in the United States, and other data mainten-
HOWARD DA SILVA
Margaret Victor, Charles Keating. THE DOCTOR'S
ance, such as the ongoing card catalog which is kept up to date on
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
DILEMMA, 63-'64
Because no company could ever maintain a large enough or
everyone who has ever made an appearance at the Play House.
DOM DE LUISE
versatile enough staff to mount a production the size of a HAMLET
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
CHARLES RAYMOND
or a RICHARD III, special funds are set aside for paying "Jobbers"
Filing the countless photos of both productions and actors is also
and Club Entertainer
Producer (CBS's "Beacon Hill")
- those who come in on a onetime only basis. Often, these jobbers
assigned occasionally to fellowship students who are exposed to all
JOAN DIENER
MARGE REDMOND
areas of the theatre's inner workings.
Stage (Musical Comedy) Actress
Stage, Screen and TV Actress
will meet such a specific need that they will eventually become part
MARION DOUGHERTY
JOHN SCHUCK
of the regular company.
The Play House has served as training ground for several lumi-
Theatrical Agent NYC
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
The company is also supplemented, when needed, by young
naries in many fields of theatre, including acting, technical, and
AMY DOUGLAS
ROBERT F. SIMON
educational.
Stage, Screen and TV Actress
Screen and TV Actor
people recruited from the Youth Theatre or from nearby univer-
ROBERT ELLENSTEIN
DAVID SELBY
sities who have internship programs in conjunction with the Play
Visit any sound stage, back lot, production studio, repertory
Stage Director, Screen
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
House.
company: you'll always find someone with the Play House in his
and TV Actor
SHEILA SMITH
past, for its alumni, while not always stars of the first magnitude,
PAT ELLIOTT
Musical Comedies (NY and World
A TYPICAL DAY
are perhaps the most continually employed people in theatre.
Stage Actress, Tony Award Winner
Tours) and TV
Susan
Sullivan,
David
Snell,
ANY
WEDNESDAY.
HENDERSON FORSYTHE
Gordon Hatfield, here Stage Managing
It takes a skillful system of checks and balances to plan a season
A random sampling of those who've been at the Play House at
Stage and TV Actor
which will use a company to its maximum advantage.
one time or another includes:
MAEVE McGUIRE
Stage and TV Actress
MICHAEL McGUIRE
Stage,
Screen and TV Actor
DOREEN McLEAN
Theatrical Agent L.A.
EDWARD MOORE
Stage and TV Actor. Playwright
PAUL NEWMAN
Screen Actor, Director and
Producer
ELEANOR PARKER
Screen and TV Actress
DON PERRIS
President of Scripps Howard
Broadcasting
NANCY PINKERTON
TV Actress
JOHN PRICE
Robert Ellenstein, THE GLASS
Richard Oberlin, Patricia Elliott. DYLAN, 65-'66
Director of Cleveland's
MENAGERIE,
Musicarnival
Sara Luce and Clarence Kavanaugh, PORTRAIT IN
SANDOR VANOCUR
BLACK, 46
NBC Producer and
TV News Comment
LOU GILBERT
GEORGE VOSKOVEC
Stage and TV Actor
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
JOEL GREY
RON WALLACE
Stage, Screen and TV Actor
Lighting Designer
and Club Entertainer
RAY WALSTON
ROBERT GUSTAVSON
Stage Director and Actor,
Director, St. Paul's Arts Council
Screen and TV Actor
MARGARET HAMILTON
JACK WESTON
Stage, Screen and TV Actress
Stage,
Screen and TV Actor
ELIZABETH HARTMAN
NORMAN WEXLER
Screen Actress
Playwright (Stage and Screen)
STEPHEN HAYES
PETER WEXLER
Managing Director Stage West
Designer (Metropolitan Opera)
Springfield, Mass.
DAVID WHITE
THEODORE HERSTAND
Screen and TV Actor
Director of Theatre, CWRU
Ray Walston, Dorothy Paxton, YOU TOUCHED ME,
Katz (Grey). John Rowe, ON BORROWED TIME
WILLIAM WOODMAN
ELINOR WRIGHT JONES
43-44
40-41
Artistic Director Goodman
Writer, Lyricist
Theatre Chicago, Illinois
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13
lhardt, Norma Leanza, HAMLET, '54-'55
IcGuire, DOCTOR FAUSTUS, '60
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG, '69-'70
Judith Lowry, Stuart Levin, THE UNITED STATES VS.
Amy Douglass, CLAUD
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TAND OLD LAC 47.48
Helen Watkins Ruth Feather, K. Elmo Lowe, ARSENIC
SHERLOCK HOLMES set sketch by Richard Gould
in which we stroll through Play House archives.
YSUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON..." "
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ROMEO AND JULIET, 72-73, Costume sketch by Joe Dale Lunday
BA
Evie McEiroy, THE MORGAN YARD, '73-'74
ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, 54th Season Opener
COUNTRY
James Broderick, THE FRONT PAGE, '73-'74
Group Therapy, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, '72-'73
Finale, THE BIRDS, '71-'72
THE POET, '73-'74
SCHOOL FOR WIVES, Act curtain by Richard Gould, '73-'74
of
Edmund L Lyndeck, John Bergstrom, A TOUCH OF
Betrothal, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, '74-'75
Richard Halverson, Jonathan Farwell, Norm Berman, COUNT DRACULA, '73-'74
Principals, THE HOT L BALTIMORE, '74-'75
Backstage at TAMING OF THE SHREW; Richard Oberlin presides, '69-'70
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1915-1975
THE
FORD R. GERALO LIBRARY
PLAY
HOUSE
Robert Allman, John Buck, Jr., Eugene Hare, RICHARD III, '74-'75
IN THE
COMMUNITY
Under the guidance of Richard Oberlin,
the Play House has gradually increased the
number of services offered to its community
- all in addition to the thirteen or more
productions mounted each season. Among
them number:
25th Anniversary confab. K. Elmo Lowe, Frederic McConnell, Max
Eisenstat
THE PLAY HOUSE COMES TO SCHOOL
Inaugurated in the 1973-74 season, this
program began as an in-classroom project. In
its first year, it consisted of 65 sessions in as
many schools, for 2,500 students; its second
year saw an increase to 125 schools, with
5,000 students participating in theatre
June Gibbons, Robert Snook, THE RIVALS, '74-'75
workshops conducted by younger members
of the Play House staff. Far from dry,
academic theatre-appreciation
experiences, The Play House Comes to
School is vitally participatory, using games
and improvisations to expand the theatre
awareness of its participants. This
"Stanislavsky in the Suburbs" approach has
been an important and definitive phase of
the theatre's audience development
program.
THE STUDENT FESTIVAL
The Play House Comes to School
Another pioneer educational effort of the
Play House was the establishment of its
Shakespeare Festival in 1933. Originally, the
Festival concentrated on streamlined
versions of the Bard's comedies - but proved
so successful that it began vigorously to
Set Model, HENRY IV, Part 1 by Paul Rodgers, '63-'64
explore some of his more complex works.
The Festival is now produced in
conjunction with the Cleveland Board of
Education, as well as other educational
groups. Low cost tickets make the Festival
high priority to the more than 25,000
students who visit it annually, coming from
as far away as western New York state.
Often they have been given a coaching in
what they are about to see, as the Play House
provides exhaustive study kits prior to the
performances.
In the past years, matinees of regular
productions have also been offered, provided
sufficient numbers of students are available
to justify the performances financially and
that the works are deemed an appropriate
educational aid.
by Joe Dale Lunday
Tom Hill as ENRICO IV, '61-'62
A Student Performance THE GLASS MENAGERIE
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THE
PLAY
ITS AUXILIARIES: A TRIBUTE
HOUSE
As is the case with most non-profit
theatre, formed the Men's Committee; so
institutions, the Play House has always been
successful and exciting are the activities of
IN THE
reliant on the fund-raising and public
the group that its membership now numbers
relations capabilities of its various auxiliary
one hundred men; a lengthy waiting list is
COMMUNITY
bodies - groups comprised of people
testimonial enough to its popularity.
who share in their desire to see theatre
A Student Audience
Far from the traditional marching and
succeed and who are motivated by more
THE YOUTH THEATRE
by, and under the curatorial eye of, Jane
chowder society, evidence of the Men's
than a simple love of live entertainment.
Iglauer Fallon. From tentative beginnings,
Committee's special brand of theatrical
The Women's Committee, the Men's
In 1933, a young actress, Esther Mullin,
the gallery has blossomed in the past few
enthusiasm is apparent throughout the
Committee and the Play House Club are the
began working with a few children on
years as a major showcase for both Cleveland
theatre. Their efforts - which have ranged
three major bodies who serve in this
Saturday mornings; from these first meetings
and National artists. Gallery openings, held
from antique auctions to the solicitation of
evolved a Children's theatre well-known as
capacity, the latter, the direct outgrowth of
four times annually, are extremely important
industrial support, to special theatre-going
the Curtain Pullers, producing plays with
an enlightened group of Men's Committee
weekends for members and wives - are
on the local art scene. Planned for the
child casts for child audiences. It was
members who personally underwrote the
immediate future is a gallery expansion
again responsible for substantial financial
establishment of the Club facility in 1960.
directed for many years by Harriet Brazier
which will include artifacts from the Play
support of the Play House. They made a
McConnell; Celeste Beckwith Chapman
House archives, such as model sets,
THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
particularly notable donation to a
aided and abetted by designing and stitching
representative costumes, sketches, and
matched-grant fund by the Cleveland
costumes for the group.
The Play House Women's Committee was
graphic work created for specific productions.
Foundation for a complete renovation of the
established in the early thirties. As a link
Over the years, it has evolved as the Play
Drury Theatre's light board in 1975.
between the public and the theatre, their
House Youth Theatre into a five and a half
CHAUTAUQUA
work was to secure subscriptions, read plays,
The Men's Committee has also been
month program, producing three or four
support first nights, Play House Gallery
extremely active in community education
productions annually, with an enrollment of
Each season since 1929, the Play House
openings, the Student Festivals, the
projects, sponsoring its own benefits for
some 150 eight to eighteen year olds. Staffed
has served as the repertory theatre in
Children's Theatre, and provide volunteer
the Fellowship Fund and assisting the
by apprentices, fellows and Equity artists in
residence at Chautauqua Institution in New
assistance for such projects as poster
Women's Committee in major fund-raisings.
Timothy Warner. Terri Wells, Thomas Vegh, Youth Theatre
ANDROCLES AND THE LION, 75
residence, the theatre offers courses in such
York State. During the eight week season,
distribution. A side activity of this close-knit
The proudest achievement in the history
basics as body movement, voice, improvisation,
A Women's
productions from the past year are repeated,
group of women was to provide hot
of the Men's Committee, however, has been
acting, fencing, puppetry and other phases of
and in recent years, some new productions
suppers for technicians on the long
in the creation and administration of the Play
dramaturgy. The program culminates each
have been presented on a preview basis,
evenings following the closing of a
House Club, a highly successful operation
year in a Theatre Fair, a day long theatrical
prior to possible production in the coming
production; they went forth (for many years
which made its bow in 1960.
collage. The Youth Theatre is presently
Cleveland season.
under the guidance of Nona Eudy) into the
administered by Jo Farwell, its Director.
In addition to the actual physical process
community reading plays aloud to
THE PLAY HOUSE CLUB
Students in the Youth Theatre are-called
of production, the theatre also maintains the
disadvantaged groups. That they provide
on to read for parts in regular productions;
Chautauqua Summer Theatre School, which
invaluable services to the Play House cannot
Harold Fallon and Frederick T. McGuire,
those older often serve as extras in crowd
meets for six hours a day, five days a week.
be stressed enough; it was the Women's
first President of the Men's Committee, were
scenes. Many a budding Paul Newman,
Conducted by Play House actors, under the
Committee which inaugurated the first
the visionaries who had the idea of
Eleanor Parker or a Sandor Vanocur began
supervision of Ken Albers, of the Play House
subscription campaigns for the theatre.
converting an occasionally used rehearsal
their careers in the Youth Theatre - perhaps
and a Professor at CWRU, the classes stress
The Committee has evolved in later years
hall in the Euclid-77th Theatre into a plush
as the third spear carrier from the left in
body movement, breath control, audition
as a prime raiser of funds. Sponsoring
supper club in 1960. Coincidentally,
some now-forgotten production.
techniques, fencing and voice training,
sophisticated special events related to the
McGuire's wife, Kathryn, was completing
improvisation and scene work.
theatre and bringing in theatrical luminaries
her term as Chairman of the Women's
THE THEATRE WORKSHOP
- Tyrone Guthrie, Joshua Logan, Henry
Committee.
THE APPRENTICE AND FELLOWSHIP
Hewes, Celeste Holm and Joel Grey are a
Elizabeth Flory Kelly, daughter of one of
PROGRAMS
This unique and beautiful addition to the
few for instances - for one-day lectures,
A member of Youth Theatre amuses in the parking lot
the major forces behind the creation of the
theatre complex is a private facility available
benefits, or performances are primary
Play House, has received much note
Aspiring young actors have an unusual
at a modest annual fee to subscribers to the
Men's Commi
activities of the auxiliary.
directing educational theatre workshops,
opportunity to perfect their craft through one
theatre.
The Women's Committee has also become
sponsored jointly by the Play House,
of the oldest such programs in the United
involved in Play House productions,
An excellent kitchen and a well-stocked
Cleveland State University and the Martha
States at the Play House. Should these
providing assistance in such areas as the
bar are just part of the attraction of the Club,
Holden Jennings Foundation. The Workshops
aspirants find their niche in their first
theatre's costume department (more than 50
which literally glitters with glamorous
invite guest experts to meet in seminars in
Play House season, they are retained for a
theatre education, instructing them in
original costumes were built for the 1973-74
patrons on opening nights. During
second season, usually rewarded by a modest
production of HAMLET) - or sponsoring
non-performance evenings or in the summer
classroom techniques which expand
cost-of-living stipend; the apprentice
coffee parties within their homes as part of
months, the Club also features entertainment
students' feelings, understanding and
program is offered at no charge. The
perception through dramatic expression. The
the yearly subscription sales campaign. They
which can range from aspiring staff
emphasis in the program is for actors and
also technical theatre beginners cutting their
have volunteered countless hours in helping
members of the theatre having a try at a
workshop has an annual participation of
maintain Play House archives, in massive
different kind of work, to performances by
some 750 teachers from the Cleveland area
teeth (some even their thumbs) in working
and is held periodically on Saturdays
phone campaigns and other like events.
students from the Cleveland Institute of
on settings and costumes backstage at the
Women's Committee efforts add a
Music, to special revues put together by
throughout the season.
Play House. The Play House also has a
substantial amount annually to the theatre's
Club members.
cooperative M.F.A. exchange program with
THE PLAY HOUSE GALLERY
operating funds.
Case Western Reserve University, in which
By paying a substantial yearly rental to
theatre arts majors are permitted to
THE MEN'S COMMITTEE
the theatre, and providing funds for
Located in the lobby of the Euclid-77th
participate in on-the-job training at the
Just over a quarter century ago,
improvement projects, the Club is also a vital
Theatre is the Play House Gallery, founded
theatre.
twenty-five men all sharing the same love of
source of income to the theatre.
Apprentices learn Fencing
The Play Hou
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Margaret Hamilton, Richard Halverson, BLITHE SPIRIT,
Janet Downs, Harriet Brazier, THE PLOUGH AND THE
Alan Alda, JOB, '58-'59
'66-'67
STARS, 55-56
William Paterson, Ruth Nelson, Edith Owen, Myrna
Max Ellis, John Schuck, Bertram Tanswell, THE
Katherine Wick Kelly, OUTWARD BOUND, 25-26
Kaye, Dorothy Paxton, THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT
FANTASTICKS, '62-'63
Setting. by Arch Lauterer, CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, '26-'27
THROUGH THE YEARS:
THE PLAY HOUSE REPERTORY
1916-1921
IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN
CAPT. BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION
MARCH HARES
1924-25
THE SECOND ROUND
*HENRY IV
IN A GARDEN
THE GARDEN OF SEMIRAMIS
Synge
Shaw
Gribble
Glover
Pirandello
Barry
Russell
AN EPISODE
ANNE PEDERSDOTTER
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
R. U.R.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL
THE MASQUE OF VENICE
THE THREE SISTERS
EVERYMAN
Schnitzler
Jenssen-Masefield
Dostoevsky-Newberry
Capek
Shaw
Gribble
Chekhov
Anonymous
A STRANGER MAY BE GOD
*BELINDA
THE FAITHFUL HEART
ICEBOUND
THE GREAT GALEOTO
JUSTICE
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
THE DUMB MESSIAH
Tanaquil
Milne
Hoffe
Davis
Echegaray
J. Galsworthy
Shakespeare
Pinski
CANDIDA
HAMLET
KAREN
ROLLO'S WILD OAT
TURANDOT, PRINCESS OF CHINA
*ANDROCLES AND THE LION
*HINDLE WAKES
SAKUNTALA
Shaw
Shakespeare
Heiberg
Kummer
Gozzi-Vollmeoller
Shaw
Houghton
Kalidasa
PORTEUS
BEYOND THE HORIZON
MAGIC
*DOCTOR FAUSTUS
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
THE VEGETABLE
*MARTA OF THE LOWLANDS
Claudel
O'Neill
Chesterton
Marlowe
d'Annunzio-Symors
1925-26
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Guimera
THE TIDING BROUGHT TO MARY
THE PORTRAIT OF A POLICEMAN
THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE
*MAGIC
*MAN AND SUPERMAN
OUTWARD BOUND
MARTA OF THE LOWLANDS
*ARMS AND THE MAN
S. Bennett
Shaw
Chesterton
Shaw
Vane
Guimera
Shaw
Claudel
MILES DIXON
HINDLE WAKES
*ANNE PEDERSDOTTER
*LUCA SARTO
JANE CLEGG
ARMS AND THE MAN
FANNY'S FIRST PLAY
THE SABINE WOMEN
Cannan
Houghton
Jenssen-Masefield
Brooks
Ervine
Shaw
Shaw
Andreyev
THE LIFE OF MAN
HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
*CANDIDA
*THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE
*MAKERS OF LIGHT
HEARTBREAK HOUSE
*THE MASK AND THE FACE
Andreyev
Shaw
Shaw
Shaw
Day
Shaw
1926-27
Chiarelli
WAPPIN' WHARF
*MARCH HARES
THE SUNKEN BELL
CAESER AND CLEOPATRA
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK
DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS
MIXED MARRIAGE
*BEYOND THE HORIZON
Synge
Brooks
Ervine
O'Neill
Gribble
Hauptmann
Shaw
Kaufman-Connelly
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF
*HINDLE WAKES
JOHN FERGUSON
*THE SECOND ROUND
SUN-UP
THE JEST
THE MISER
Moliere
Shaw
AN AUTHOR
Ervine
Houghton
Glover
Vollmer
Benelli
THE LEARNED LADIES
THE MOLLUSC
Pirandello-Storer
RICHARD II
PAPA
*ANNE PEDERSDOTTER
A LOVING WIFE
Moliere
Davies
LITERATURE
Akins
Shakespeare
Jenssen-Masefield
De Porto-Riche-Crawford
1927-28
LOVE'S THE BEST DOCTOR
DOCTOR FAUSTUS
Schnitzler
HENRY IV
PYGMALION
*BEYOND THE HORIZON
GOAT SONG
*ARMS AND THE MAN
Moliere
Marlowe
THE GLITTERING GATE
Shaw
Pirandello-Storer
- O'Neill
Werfel-Langner
Shaw
BARBER OF SEVILLE
BELINDA
Dunsany
MAKERS OF LIGHT
THE DOCTOR'S DEILEMMA
*TURANDOT, PRINCESS OF CHINA
THE CONCERT
*THE JEST
Beaumarchais
Milne
GRUACH
Shaw
Day
Gozzi-Vollmoeller
Bahr
Benelli
THE MISTRESS OF THE INN
THE FAREWELL SUPPER
Bottomley
THE MAN WHO ATE THE POPOMACK
*ANNE PEDERSDOTTER
THE MASK AND THE FACE
*S. S. TENACITY
WHITE WINGS
Goldoni
Schnitzler
THE GAME OF CHESS
Turner
Jenssen-Masefield
Chiarelli
Vildrac-Newberry
Barry
PELLEAS AND MELISANDE
1922-1923
Goodman
THE ROMANTIC AGE
*THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
THE WILD DUCK
*A FAREWELL SUPPER
THE SKIN GAME
Maeterlinck
THE NEW YORK IDEA
ANDROCLES AND THE LION
Milne
Wilde
Ibsen
Schnitzler
Galsworthy
SNOW
Mitchell
Shaw
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
*THE ROMANTIC AGE
KING LEAR
*THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE
*BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK
1921-1922
Przybyszewski
LUCA SARTO
1923-24
Synge
Milne
Shakespeare
Shaw
Kaufman-Connelly
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Brooks
S. S. TENACITY
THE SILVER BOX
MAN AND SUPERMAN
*CANDIDA
*ICEBOUND
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
*THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
Wilde
Vildrac-Newberry
Galsworthy
Shaw
Shaw
Davis
O'Casey
Dostoevsky
22
Indicates revivals
Indicates revivals
23
OUR BETTERS
*THE MOLLUSC
SWEENY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER
THE MAD HOPES
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
TAMING OF THE SHREW
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN
"BUT NOT GOODBYE"
Maugham
Davies
OF FLEET STREET
Brent
Monactor-Dickens
Shakespeare
Swann
Seaton
THE GREAT GOD BROWN
*CANDIDA
Pitt
*TWELFTH NIGHT
DAVID GARRICK
TONIGHT AT 8:30
SKYLARK
THE CORN IS GREEN
O'Neill
Shaw
BROOMSTICK
Shakespeare
Phidelah Rice-Robertson
Coward
Raphaelson
E. Williams
*MARCH HARES
*FASHION
Dunkerson
CRIMINAL AT LARGE
THE MASTER BUILDER
VOLPONE
THUNDER ROCK
DISTINGUISHED GATHERING
Gribble
Mowatt
*MARCH HARES
Wallace
Ibsen
Zweig
Ardrey
Parish
*ANNE PEDERSDOTTER
Gribble
THE MOON IN THE YELLOW RIVER
PLAY HOUSE REVUE
A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED
*MEN IN SHADOW
Jenssen-Masefield
1929-30
1931-32
Johnston
1936-37
STOP THIEF
Williams
Bell
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
*MARCH HARES
THE LATER CHRISTOPHER BEAN
*THE MARQUISE
*THE BISHOP MISBEHAVES
Moore
ANGELS WEEP
Sheridan
Gribble
Howard
Jackson
1942-43
Coward
Nelson
THE GOOD HOPE
*THE SECOND MAN
*A NIGHT LODGING
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
1939-40
*A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED
OLYMPIA
TOMORROW THE WORLD
Heijermans
Molnar-Howard
Behrman
Gorky
THE GENTLE PEOPLE
Kaufman-Hart
Williams
Gow d'Usseau
MACBETH
EACH IN HIS OWN WAY
THE MAN IN POSSESSION
THE CIRCLE
WITHIN THE GATES
I. Shaw
*SKYLARK
NINE GIRLS
Shakespeare
Maugham
OUR TOWN
Pirandello-Livingston
Harwood
O'Casey
Raphaelson
Pettitt
*MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
THE RED SWAN
NOT FOR CHILDREN
Wilder
THE EVE OF SAINT MARK
*THE WILD DUCK
HIDE IN THE DARK
NIGHT MUST FALL
Shakespeare
Ibsen
de Tanko-Buckner
EIGHT O'CLOCK TUESDAY
Hart
Rice
Anderson
E. Williams
*DOCTOR FAUSTUS
THE DAUGHTER OF JORIO
*ANDROCLES AND THE LION
THE DRUNKARD: OR THE FALLEN SAVED
LIBEL
Eberhadt-Wallsten
SUSPECT
Marlowe
d'Annunzio
Shaw
Play House ver.
THE RIVALS
Wooll
Percy-Denham
Sheridan
1945-46
*KING LEAR
THE RACKET
THE TRAGEDY OF JOSEPHINE MARIA
TARTUFFE: OR THE HYPOCRITE
CALL IT DAY
JASON
Shakespeare
Moliere
WHAT LIFE
*TOMORROW THE WORLD
Cormack
Brooks
Smith
Raphaelson
ON APPROVAL
SERENA BLANDISH
*CANDIDA
Goldsmith
Gow-d'Usseau
THE STREETS OF NEW YORK
JOHNNY JOHNSON
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE
Lonsdale
Shaw
HEAVY BARBARA
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
Behrman
Boucicault
Green
Kaufman-Hart
*CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
Voskovec-Werich
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Saroyan
THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
RED DUST
1934-35
THE SHINING HOUR
BLITHE SPIRIT
Shaw
I KILLED THE COUNT
RIGHT YOU ARE (IF YOU THINK SO)
Raynal
Kirchon-Ouspensky Verron
*THE DRUNKARD: OR THE FALLEN SAVED
Winter
Kesselring
HER MASTER'S VOICE
Coppel
Coward
THE MORNING STAR
ESCAPE
THE DYBBUK
Play House version
ALL IN FUN
KISS AND TELL
Pirandello
TRELAWNY OF THE WELLS
Galsworthy
Ansky
*A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Kummer
E. Williams
THE TEMPEST
W. C. Revue
Herbert
KIND LADY
Pinero
AND SO TO BED
AT MRS. BEAM'S
Shakespeare
*TWELFTH NIGHT
A BELL FOR ADANO
Fagan
Munro
TEN MINUTE ALIBI
Shakespeare
Chodorov
Shakespeare
Hersey-Osborn
HIPPOLYTUS
HEDDA GABLER
THE DISTAFF SIDE
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Euripides
HE
Armstrong
VENUS AND ADOLPHUS
DUCHESS OF MALFI
Ibsen
Savoir
THE GREAT FOMBOMBO
Van Druten
Segall
THE FALL OF BERG-OP-ZOOM
PLAY HOUSE REVUE
Stevens
Webster
DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
*THE RACKET
D. Wallace
CLAUDIA
THE TWO ORPHANS
MORNING'S AT SEVEN
Shaw
THE GREEN COCKATOO
Guitry-Seldes
Cormack
*PYGMALION
Lowe-Wright
Franken
A SLEEPING CLERGYMAN
d'Ennery-Cormen
Osborn
Schnitzler
THE FAN
THE FIRST MRS. FRASER
Shaw
PETTICOAT FEVER
FOR SERVICES RENDERED
TEN LITTLE INDIANS
Goldoni
Ervine
THREE CORNERED MOON
Bridie
Reed
Christie
*EVERYMAN
*THE ILLUSIONIST
THE LONDON MERCHANT
Anonymous
Tonkonogy
THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS
Maugham
CLARENCE
WHITEOAKS
*NIGHT MUST FALL
Guitry
Lillo
SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR
Goldoni
Tarkington
de la Roche
E. Williams
*MAGIC
*THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
THE WELL OF THE SAINTS
George O'Neil
MEN MUST FIGHT
PAPA IS ALL
CLOSE QUARTERS
Chesterton
Wilde
Synge
ON STAGE
Lawrence-Lauren
Greene
THE ADDING MACHINE
1940-41
Somin-Lennox
Rice
THE FIRE IN THE OPERA HOUSE
YOUNG LOVE
Kaye
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
WINGS OVER EUROPE
1943-44
Nichols-Browne
FASHION
Kaiser
Raphaelson
YELLOW JACK
1937-38
Kaufman-Hart
Mowatt
S. S. GLENCAIRN
JEALOUSY
Howard
THE OTHER HALF STONE
*CLAUDIA
MARGIN FOR ERROR
SLEEP, MY PRETTY ONE
O'Neill
Vernueuil-Walter
THE PLAYS THE THING
Franken
*SUN-UP
Molnar
THE DEVIL'S MOON
Carpenter-Stevenson
Boothe
Charlcie-Garrett
THE NEW SIN
*PAPA IS ALL
1928-29
THE ASS AND THE SHADOW
JANIE
Vollmer
Hastings
*MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Greene
*TRELAWNY OF THE WELLS
Manley
Voskovec-Werich
Bentham-H. Williams
HANG 'EM ALL
STRINGING BROADWAY
YOU TOUCHED ME
Shakespeare
EXCURSION
MIDDLETOWN MURAL
Pinero
Linek
Tatterman Marionettes
DOUBLE DOOR
Wolfson
Williams-Windham
Maibaum
*RIGHT YOU ARE (IF YOU THINK SO)
THE WAR FLY
McFadden
ANGEL STREET
1946-47
THE AMAZING DOCTOR CLITTERHOUSE
TONY DRAWS A HORSE
Pirandello
Leslie
1932-33
AFTER SUCH PLEASURES
Hamilton
*TEN LITTLE INDIANS
Lyndon
Storm
*ON APPROVAL
Parker
GRUMPY
Christie
THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF
*CANDIDA
GEORGE AND MARGARET
WE WERE HERE FIRST
THE LATE GEORGE APLEY
Dukes
Shaw
Lonsdale
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
*BEYOND THE HORIZON
Savory
Bryan-Farr
Hodges-Percival
*THE ADDING MACHINE
Aiken
CARRIAGE TRADE
Kaufman-Marquand
*THE FIRST MRS. FRASER
JUDGMENT DAY
FAMILY PORTRAIT
COMMAND
O'Neill
Rice
Ervine
THE SACRED FLAME
Rice
Thomsen-Powell
Cowan
Neumann-Dukes
Maugham
LOVE FOR LOVE
Kaines
THE PATRIOT
1930-31
THE VERY GREAT MAN
FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS
FLIGHT TO THE WEST
Thomas-Haussmann
GIRLS IN UNIFORM
Congreve
AH, WILDERNESS
*THE FALL OF BERG-OP-ZOOM
Rattigan
Rice
Winsloe
THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT
O'Neill
*TURANDOT, PRINCESS OF CHINA
Guitry-Seldes
MERRY-GO-ROUND
JUST MRS.
THE MALE ANIMAL
Gozzi-Vollmoeller
Maltz-Sklar
Sherwood
WINTERSET
THE TEXAS NIGHTINGALE
THE SEA GULL
1935-36
W. C. Revue
Thurber-Nugent
THE THRACIAN HORSES
Anderson
Chekhov
HAY FEVER
*DOUBLE DOOR
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
GRAB BAG REVUE
Akins
Valency
LOVE IN THE CITY
THE HIGH ROAD
Coward
*BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK
McFadden
Shakespeare
W. C. Revue
THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN
JUNIOR MISS
Wolfson
Kaufman-Connelly
Lonsdale
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
NOAH
JULIUS CAESAR
Chodorov-Field
PORTRAIT IN BLACK
*JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
THE FIELD GOD
Taylor
Rice
Obey
Shakespeare
*SUN-UP
Goff-Roberts
O'Casey
Green
ROADSIDE
ACCENT ON YOUTH
THE GREEN BAY TREE
*WHITEOAKS
PERIPHERIE
Riggs
Vollmer
STATE OF THE UNION
*THE MASK AND THE FACE
THE DEVIL PASSES
Raphaelson
Shairp
de la Roche
MEN IN SHADOW
Lindsay-Crouse
Langer-McConnell
Chiarelli
LOST HORIZONS
THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH
HERE TODAY
Rand
Bell
*JANIE
TWELFTH NIGHT
THE SECOND MAN
Levy
Hayden
Oppenheimer
Behrman
WHISTLING IN THE DARK
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
*INVITATION TO A MURDER
Bentham-H. Williams
THE BISHOP MISBEHAVES
INVITATION TO A MURDER
THE MARQUISE
Gross-Carpenter
THERE'S ALWAYS JULIET
Jackson
Hellman
King
King
A SOUND OF HUNTING
Shakespeare
ANTIGONE
Sophocles
THE PETRIFIED FOREST
PENNY WISE
A DECENT BIRTH, A HAPPY FUNERAL
Brown
Coward
ON BORROWED TIME
Saroyan
BERKELY SQUARE
NAKED
Van Druten
Sherwood
Black
Osborn
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
DANGEROUS CORNER
THE OLD LADIES
Balderson
Chekhov
Pirandello
POST ROAD
Priestley
1938-39
Ackland
THERESE
1941-42
*THE GREAT GOD BROWN
*THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Sheridan
*TWELFTH NIGHT
Steele-Mitchell
THE STAR WAGON
*THE MALE ANIMAL
*PAPA IS ALL
Job-Zola
O'Neill
RAIN FROM HEAVEN
Shakespeare
Anderson
Thurber-Nugent
Greene
1947-48
THE CONSTANT NYMPH
DOCTOR KNOCK
SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY
Behrman
ON THE ROCKS
SAINT JOAN
BRIEF HOLIDAY
*PORTRAIT IN BLACK
Kennedy-Dean
Romains-Barker
THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS
Shaw
Finletter
CHILDREN OF DARKNESS
Levy
Shaw
Goff-Roberts
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED
*CANDIDA
Guiterman-Langner
*HEARTBREAK HOUSE
LADIES IN RETIREMENT
JOAN OF LORRAINE
Andreyev-Zilborg
Mayer
Shaw
AS YOU LIKE IT
Shaw
Denham-Percy
1944-45
Anderson
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLAYDS
OVERTURE 1920
A NIGHT LODGING
Shakespeare
YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER
MR. AND MRS. NORTH
*BRIEF HOLIDAY
DEAR RUTH
Milne
Bolitho
THE HEAVENLY EXPRESS
Gorky
Reed
Davis
Finletter
Drasna
THE FAITHFUL
LADY WINDEMERE'S FAN
*THE ADDING MACHINE
Bein
LILIOM
*YELLOW JACK
*ANGEL STREET
SUDS IN YOUR EYE
Masefield
Wilde
Rice
*LOST HORIZONS
Molnar
Howard
Hamilton
Kirkland
THE ILLUSIONIST
*THE ADDING MACHINE
*THE NEW SIN
Hayden
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
SPRING AGAIN
MY SISTER EILEEN
YEARS AGO
Guitry
Rice
PLAY HOUSE REVIEW
TWELVE THOUSAND
Hastings
Rice
Leighton-Bloch
Fields-Chodorov
Gordon
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
THE PLEASURE OF HONESTY
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
*FAMILY PORTRAIT
THE FRONT PAGE
ALL MY SONS
Anderson
Frank
1933-34
Pirandello-Livingston
Goldsmith
Cofee-Cowan
Hecht-MacArthur
Miller
*THE ADDING MACHINE
THE ROOF
THE MACHINE WRECKERS
THE BONDS OF INTEREST
OF MICE AND MEN
HEART OF A CITY
UNCLE HARRY
*ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Rice
Ingalls
Toller-Dukes
Benavente
Steinbeck
Storm
Job
Kesselring
WILD BIRDS
HINKELMANN
BOTH YOUR HOUSES
HAMLET
BACHELOR BOM
*A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
*OUR TOWN
Totherah
Toller
Anderson
Shakespeare
Hay
Shakespeare
Wilder
Wilder
Indicates revivals
24
Indicates revivals
25
THE LINDEN TREE
THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE
THE LEFT HOOK
BURNING BRIGHT
THE POTTING SHED
EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON
UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE
Priestley
Van Druten
Eleanor & Leo Bayer
Steinbeck
Greene
A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT (AND)
Osborne
THE LADY HAS IDEAS
*THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH
DIAL M FOR MURDER
INHERIT THE WIND
Roman
THE APPOLO OF BELLAC
*MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
MISSOURI LEGEND
SISTER WAS A SPORT
Kelly
Shakespeare
Rand
Lawrence-Lee
Fry-Giradeaux
Knott
HOME OF THE BRAVE
THE FATAL WEAKNESS
TIME OUT FOR GINGER
THE DESK SET
Ginty
Wolf
THE BANKER'S DAUGHTER
1950-51
SOMEONE WAITING
SIMONE
Laurents
Kelly
Alexander
Marchant
lisco-Kaplan-Boucicault
*THE SILVER WHISTLE
Williams
Hecht
HAND IN GLOVE
AFFAIRS OF STATE
A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT
DRUMS UNDER THE WINDOW
A BEAR IN THE ATTIC
*PYGMALION
Freeman-Savory
McEnroe
THE SOUND OF MURDER
Verneuil
Fry
O'Casey
BORN YESTERDAY
Kanzell-Riley
Shaw
Fairchild
NONE SO BLIND
DARKNESS AT NOON
*HAMLET
*ANDROCLES AND THE LION
THE EXILES
G. Kanin
SAY, DARLING
ENRICO IV
McCulloch
Kingsley
Shakespeare
Shaw
Joyce
HARVEY
Bissell-Burrows
*A NIGHT LODGING
MISTER ROBERTS
THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE
Pirandello
MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT
KING OF HEARTS
ELECTRA
Gorky
Chase
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT
Heggen-Logan
Kerr-Brooke
Home
Giradoux-Valency
THE FIFTH WIFE
*MORNING'S AT SEVEN
OTHELLO
HOTEL PARADISO
Sophocles
T. Williams
*JULIUS CAESAR
THIRD BEST SPORT
*THE TEMPEST
OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMA'S HUNG
Kurlander-Linel
Osborn
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Feydeau-Desvallieres
GETTING MARRIED
RING ROUND THE MOON
THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL
THE MOUSTRAP
Beyer
Shakespeare
YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I'M FEELIN'
*LADIES IN RETIREMENT
THE RIVALRY
*ARMS AND THE MAN
SO SAD
Shaw
Anouilh-Fry
Percy-Denham
Wouk
Christie
Corwin
0 MISTRESS MINE
Shaw
Kopit
*CLAUDIA
*NIGHT MUST FALL
MANDRAGOLA
*VOLPONE
BECKET
Rattigan
*PICTURES IN THE HALLWAY
Franken
E. Williams
Machiavelli-Dukes
Jonson
1948-49
THE BROKEN QUIET
THE BOY FRIEND
O'Casey (adapted Paul Shyre)
Anouilh
*A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
*THE LADY HAS IDEAS
Copeland
1955-56
SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO
A COOK FOR MR. GENERAL
HENRY IV, PART I
MAN IN THE HOUSE
Shakespeare
Wilson
Kelly
REGINA
*THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL
Schary
Gethers
Shakespeare
A HOLE IN THE HEAD
THE GREAT CAMPAIGN
Dinelli
Wouk
THE GAZEBO
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE
THE TYPISTS (AND) THE TIGER
Blitzstein
Schulman
Sundgaard
DUET FOR TWO HANDS
VENUS OBSERVED
*TIME OUT FOR GINGER
*THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Coppel
Shaffer
Schisgal
SCAPIN
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
Bell
Alexander
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
ROOM SERVICE
Fry
T. Williams
THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER
Abbott
*THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
1962-63
Moliere
Hellman
LIFE WITH FATHER
Murray-Boretz
1953-54
O'Brien
TIPSY REBELLION
Shakespeare
*UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE
THE DOCK BRIEF
Lindsay-Crouse
GOODBYE, MY FANCY
*AFFAIRS OF STATE
PICNIC
*SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH
Jory
Roman
Mortimer
JOHN LOVES MARY
F. Kanin
Verneuil
Inge
*THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
OF AN AUTHOR
*A COOK FOR MR. GENERAL
Krasna
MARSEILLES
Shakespeare
1964-65
THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING
THE TENDER TRAP
Pirandello-Johnston
Gethers
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Pagnol-(adapted, Howard)
Fry
Shulman-Smith
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
*THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
*THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT
*THE PLAY'S THE THING
STALAG 17
THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS
1960-61
Chayefsky
Wilde
Giradoux-Valency
Williams
AN INSPECTOR CALLS
Molnar-Wodehouse
Bevan-Trzcinski
O'Casey
*VOLPONE (TOUR)
THE FANTASTICKS
*TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE
Priestley
DETECTIVE STORY
THE COUNTRY GIRL
*STALAG 17
Jonson
Jones-Schmidt
Ephron
THE FIREBRAND
Odets
Bevan-Trzcinski
*CANDIDA
GALILEO
Kingsley
1958-59
KNOCK AT THE DOOR
*A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
RECLINING FIGURE
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Shaw
O'Casey
Brecht
Mayer
THE HEIRESS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Ruth & Augustus Goetz
Shakespeare
Kurnitz
Hackett
*DOCTOR FAUSTUS
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
THE PRIVATE EAR (AND)
Loos
*THERE'S ALWAYS JULIET
BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
*THE MOUSTRAP
Marlowe
THE PUBLIC EYE
O'Neill
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Van Druten
Van Druten
Teichmann-Kaufman
Christie
*THE GAZEBO
*GHOSTS
Shaffer
Gillette
*THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Coppel
ALL THE KING'S MEN
*THE MALE ANIMAL
THE WAYWARD SAINT
THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE
Ibsen
*GETTING MARRIED
Shakespeare
Thurber-Nugent
Carroll
Chrichton
THE GOLDEN FLEECING
RHINOCEROS
Warren
Semple
RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN
Shaw
1951-52
BLOOMER GIRL
OH MEN, OH WOMEN
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
lonesco
PARLOR STORY
Herzig-Saidy
Chodorov
Eliot
THE DEADLY GAME
THE MIRACLE WORKER
Dyer
*ROOM SERVICE
McCleesy
Murray-Beretz
COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA
*THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
OEDIPUS REX
Yaffe
THE CHALK GARDEN
Gibson
JANUARY THAW
Inge
Saroyan
Sophocles
BETWEEN TWO THIEVES
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK
Bagnold
THREE MEN ON A HORSE
Roos
Holm-Abbott
THE INNOCENTS
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
MONIQUE
Leroy
A THOUSAND CLOWNS
Krasna
Archibald
O'Neill
Blankfort
A TOUCH OF THE POET
THE BALD SOPRANO (AND)
Gardner
A STAR IN THE NIGHT
ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS
Fawke
Anderson
HOME AT SEVEN
THE DESPERATE HOURS
THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE
O'Neill
*MAJOR BARBARA
lonesco
CHRISTOPHER BLAKE
DREAM
Sherriff
Hayes
Lavery
LITTLE MARY SUSHINE
THE AMERICAN DREAM
Shaw
Hart
PICTURES IN THE HALLWAY
Besoyan
TWELVE ANGRY MEN
Rice
*MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Albee
THE SHOP AT SLY CORNER
THE GAY RASCAL (THE LIAR)
THE LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS
Shakespeare
O'Casey
INVITATION TO A MURDER
CRITIC'S CHOICE
Rose
Percy
Goldoni
Ustinov
A ROOMFUL OF ROSES
MOTHER COURAGE
King
ENTER LAUGHING
Levin
TWO FOR THE SEESAW
A THURBER CARNIVAL
Stein
*TWELFTH NIGHT
THE VELVET GLOVE
*THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Sommer
Brecht
Shakespeare
Casey
1956-57
TO DOROTHY, A SON
Gibson
*A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Sheridan
Thurber
YES M'LORD
*FAMILY PORTRAIT
*A ROOMFUL OF ROSES
MacDougall
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL
THE ASPERN PAPERS
Shakespeare
1949-50
Frings
THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS
W. D. Home
Coffee-Cowan
Sommer
NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS
James
EDWARD, MY SON
TWENTIETH CENTURY
THE MOON IS BLUE
*THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
Levin
MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND
GIDEON
Anouilh
Morley-Langley
Hecht-MacArthur
Teichmann-Kaufman
THE PERFECT ALIBI
Stevens
MARY, MARY
Herbert
Chayevsky
THE TRAITOR
THE WINSLOW BOY
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
Milne
*ARMS AND THE MAN
BREATH OF SPRING
Kerr
Wouk
LIFE WITH MOTHER
Rattigan
Shaw
THE PHYSICISTS
Smith-Abbott
Axelrod
UNCLE VANYA
Coke
THE CONSUL
*TWELFTH NIGHT
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
Chekhov
*VOLPONE
THE TAVERN
Duerrenmatt
Lindsay-Crouse
TWO BLIND MICE
Menotti
Shakespeare
Sherwood
PURPLE DUST
Jonson
Cohan
1965-66
BIOGRAPHY
MURDER WITHOUT CRIME
THE CRADLE SONG
O'Casey
J.B.
THE CARETAKER
*MARY, MARY
Spewack
WHO WAS THAT LADY SAW YOU WITH
MacLeish
Pinter
PRESENT LAUGHTER
Behrman
Thompson
Gregorio-Maria Sierra
Kerr
THE CURIOUS SAVAGE
POINT OF NO RETURN
TIME LIMIT
Krasna
*TWELFTH NIGHT
*MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
*TARTUFFE
Coward
Patrick
Osborn
Denker-Berkey
THE SONG OF BERNADETTE
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Moliere
*YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
ANASTASIA
Kerr
ROYAL GAMBIT
Kaufman-Hart
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
COME BLOW YOUR HORN
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE
Miller
1954-55
Maurett
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Gressieker
Simon
Albee
THE SILVER WHISTLE
SECOND THRESHOLD
*POINT OF NO RETURN
BUS STOP
T. Williams
NOT IN THE BOOK
THE ALCHEMIST
SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND
McEnroe
Osborn
Barry-Sherwood
Inge
FAIR GAME
Watkyn
Jonson
DUET FOR ONE
Hanley
*SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY
THE FOURPOSTER
THE PONDER HEART
Locke
CARVED IN SNOW
Greene-Blake
Levy
De Hartog
Fields-Chodorov
*MACBETH
1961-62
1963-64
4.80 TOP
AS YOU LIKE IT
THE CRUCIBLE
MURDER MISTAKEN
*HEDDA GABLER
Geiger
Shakespeare
*COME BLOW YOUR HORN
*UNCLE VANYA
Bohnen
Shakespeare
Miller
Green
JOB
Ibsen
Simon
Chekhov
HOPE IS A THING WITH FEATHERS
*BORN YESTERDAY
THE GIRL ON THE VIA FLAMINA
TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
Hill Alda
*NOT IN THE BOOK
*THE TAVERN
ANTIGONE
Horrity
G. Kanin
Hayes
Patrick
SPIDER'S WEB
Watkyn
Cohan
Anouilh
THE LONG MOMENT
MY THREE ANGELS
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Christie
BIG FISH, LITTLE FISH
RIVERWIND
NEVER TOO LATE
J. Sinclair
1952-53
Spewack
Miller
HEAVEN COME WEDNESDAY
Wheeler
Jennings
ROMEO AND JULIET
*THE VELVET GLOVE
THE WINNER
A MAJORITY OF ONE
Long
JANUS
Lawrence
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
*YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
Shakespeare
Casey
Rice
Green
Spigelgass
T. Williams
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
THE HAPPY TIME
THE ANDERSONVILLE TRIAL
Kaufman-Hart
MATERIAL WITNESS
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
*THE RIVALRY
DYLAN
Dostoevsky-Ackland
Taylor
Kantor
1959-60
Christie
Levitt
Corwin
OH! SUZANNA
ANTIGONE
BEST FOOT FORWARD
*SPIDER'S WEB
Michaels
ROMAN CANDLE
*AS YOU LIKE IT
*THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
POOR RICHARD
Ryerson-Clements
Anouilh
Holm, Martin & Blane
Christie
MISALLIANCE
SABRINA FAIR
Shakespeare
Sheldon
Shaw
*CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
*HEAVEN COME WEDNESDAY
BUILD ME A BRIDGE
Kerr
TIGER AT THE GATES
CALCULATED RISK
*YOU NEVER CAN TELL
Shaw
Shaw
Taylor
Lawrence
*LIBEL
Giraudoux-Fry
Drayton
Hayes
TALL STORY
Shaw
FINIAN'S RAINBOW
THE EMPEROR JONES
THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY
JOHNNY
THE AMOROUS FLEA
Wooll
Harburg-Saidy
O'Neill
1957-58
Lindsay-Crouse
Taylor-Skinner
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
MRS. McTHING
*WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
RASHOMON
ERNEST IN LOVE
Hager
Devine-Montgomery
TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Eliot
Eliot
Chase
Christie
Kanin
Croswell-Pockriss
Henry & Phoebe Ephron
Albee
26
* Indicates revivals
Indicates revivals
27
*TWELFTH NIGHT
THE DAY OF THE LION
GALLOWS HUMOR
OLD TIMES
Shakespeare
Wyman
Richardson
Pinter
*OUR TOWN
SUMMERTREE
ENDGAME
*THE CARETAKER
Wilder
Cowen
Beckett
Pinter
ABSENCE OF A CELLO
MRS. LINCOLN
LYSISTRATA
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
Wallach
Cullinan
Aristophanes
Gershe
THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF
EXCEPT FOR SUSIE FINKEL
SHERLOCK HOLMES
1966-67
Moliere
Manchester
Gillette (adapted-Rosa)
*ABSENCE OF A CELLO
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY
*RICHARD MORSE MIME THEATRE II
Wallach
Pinter
Masters
Morse
A PROFILE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
*AH, WILDERNESS
YOU KNOW CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN
THE LOVES OF CASS McGUIRE
Paterson
O'Neill
THE WATER'S RUNNING
Friel
A PROFILE OF HOLMES
A FLEA IN HER EAR
Anderson
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Paterson
Feydeau
SUMMER AND SMOKE
Wasserman
*THE MISER
THIEVES' CARNIVAL
Williams
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS
Moliere
Anouilh
THE WHITE HOUSE MURDER CASE
Simon
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
AFTER THE RAIN
Feiffer
*ROMEO AND JULIET
Dorothy Pasch Steiner, Robert Allman, A MAJORITY OF ONE,
K. Elmo Lowe, daughter Stanja and wife, Dorothy Paxton,
Gilroy
Bowen
BEYOND THE FRINGE
Shakespeare
19.
rehearse CRITIC'S CHOICE, '62-'63
*THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
*THE PLAY'S THE THING
Bennett-Cook-Miller-Moore
THE RABINOWITZ GAMBIT
Wilder
Molnar
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
Goldemberg
U.S.A.
MONEY
Shaw
Dos Passos-Shyre
Axelrod-Whedon-Pottle
THE PROMISE
1973-74
Frederic McConnell and lion Russell Collins, ANDROCLES AND THE LION, 31
A CASE OF LIBEL
THE UNITED STATES VS. JULIUS AND
Arbuzov
*THE FRONT PAGE
Denker
ETHEL ROSENBERG
PLAZA SUITE
Hecht MacArthur
*LIFE WITH FATHER
Freed
Simon
THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES
Lindsay-Crouse
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS
Moliere
BRECHT ON BRECHT
Euripides
THE REMOVALISTS
Tabori
1971-72
*THE MALE ANIMAL
Williamson
*BLITHE SPIRIT
*PLAZA SUITE
Thurber-Nugent
*A TOUCH OF THE POET
Coward
Simon
O'Neill
THE HOSTAGE
DARK OF THE MOON
IN FASHION
Behan
1969-70
Richardson-Berney
Jory-Burstein
ANY WEDNESDAY
*THE UNITED STATES VS. JULIUS AND
A DOLL'S HOUSE
THE MORGAN YARD
Resnick
ETHEL ROSENBERG
Ibsen
O'Morrison
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
Freed
THE BIRDS
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Simon
THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN
Aristophanes (adapted-Kerr)
Osborne
Vivienne Stotter, Clayton Corzatte, Franklin Cover, TEAHOUSE
*THE TEMPEST
WOMAN IN THE DUNES
Max Ellis, Janet Coffin, INHERIT THE WIND, 57.58
Schaffer
COUNT DRACULA
OF THE AUGUST MOON, '56-'57
Shakespeare
JOE EGG
Coe
Tiller
Nicholls
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
*HAMLET
1967-68
THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON
Orton
Shakespeare
*BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS
CHILD'S PLAY
PRIVATE LIVES
Simon
Zindel
Marasco
Coward
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
*HARVEY
FRANK MERRIWELL (OR HONOR
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDERNSTERN
Gogol
Chase
CHALLENGED)
ARE DEAD
LUV
BLACK COMEDY
Redwine-Frank-Gould
Stoppard
Schisgal
Schaffer
MOBY DICK, REHEARSED
*BORN YESTERDAY
THE STRONG ARE LONELY
*THE COUNTRY WIFE
Welles
Kanin
William Woodman, Russell Collins, Myrna Kaye, Richard Oberlin, Phillip Kerr, Judith Adams,
Hochwaelder
Wycherly
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Michel Ackerman rehearse TARTUFFE, '65-'66
*MORNING'S AT SEVEN
LOOT
Allen
1974-75
Osborn
HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES
*COUNT DRACULA
Orton
CHARLEY'S AUNT
Guare
Tiller
ALL THE WAY HOME
Thomas
Mosel
THE PRICE
HAPPY END
THE ODD COUPLE
RED'S MY COLOR, WHAT'S YOURS?
Miller
Brecht-Weill
Simon
Wexler
THE LIAR
THE SEA HORSE
THE DUMBWAITER (AND)
Moore
DON JUAN IN HELL
Goldoni (adapted-Yalman)
THE COLLECTION
Shaw
FORTY CARATS
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Kirk Willis, Andre Womble, SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING
William Swetland, ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS, '56-'57
Pinter
*ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Allen
Williams
GROUND, '65-'66
GENERATION
Kesselring
THE PORTABLE CHEKHOV
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY
Goodhart
Friel
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HUGGING
Chekhov
THE ROSE TATOO
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Williams
AND KISSING? (AND) THE HUFF
Borden
DEAR LIAR
AND THE PUFF
1972-73
COLETTE
Wexler
Kilty
I AM WOMAN
Jones
*THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Lindfors
THE HOT L BALTIMORE
T. Williams
1970-71
*FORTY CARATS
Wilson
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
*DON JUAN IN HELL
Allen
*HAY FEVER
Shakespeare
Shaw
A YARD OF SUN
Coward
HALFWAY UP THE TREE
*WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HUGGING
Fry
RICHARD III
Ustinov
AND KISSING? (AND) THE HUFF
RICHARD MORSE MIME THEATRE
Shakespeare
WAITING FOR GODOT
AND THE PUFF
Morse
CONFESSION AT NIGHT
Beckett
Wexler
THE SHORT MAGICAL MINISTRY OF THE
Arbuzov
Rolf Engelhardt, Mary Hopkins, Robert Allman, BORN YESTERDAY, 51-52
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
REVEREND DOCTOR JOHN FAUST
*THE RIVALS
1968-69
Brecht-Weill
Ranelli
Sheridan
*DEAR LIAR
FALLEN ANGELS
JOHNNY NO-TRUMP
THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE
Kilty
Coward
Mercier
Indicates revivals
Simon
Dom DeLuise, AI Fann, Earl Rowe, BLOOMER GIRL, '53-'54
Richard Halverson, Bob Moak, J. Vernon Oaks, SCAPIN,
'63-'64
Underscored play titles indicate American or World Premieres. See list below.
WORLD AND AMERICAN PREMIERES
1921
WAPPIN'
WHARF*
1922 LUCA SARTO*
1928 PERIPHERIE*
1928 THE ILLUSIONIST*
1929 THE FALL OF BERGOP-ZOOM*
1930 THE ROOF*
1931 HIDE IN
THE DARK*
1932 THE VERY GREAT MAN*
1933 THE RED SWAN*
1934 THE GREAT FOMBOMBO*
1934 SOMETHING TO LIVE
FOR*
1934 ON STAGE*
1935
LOST
HORIZON* 1936 NOT FOR CHILDREN* 1937 THE OTHER HALF STONE* 1937 THE DEVIL'S MOON* 1939 HEAVY BARBARA* 1939 EIGHT O'CLOCK TUESDAY* 1939
VENUS AND ADOLPHUS* 1940 MIDDLETOWN MURAL* 1940 WE WERE HERE FIRST* 1940 THE ASS AND HIS SHADOW* 1943 YOU TOUCHED ME* 1943 EVE OF ST.
MARK* 1943 CARRIAGE TRADE* 1943 BRIEF HOLIDAY* 1944 ANGELS WEEP* 1944 THE THRACIAN HORSES* 1946 COMMAND* 1946 LOVE IN THE CITY*
1947 THE LADY HAS IDEAS* 1947 HAND IN GLOVE* 1947 NONE SO BLIND* 1947 THE FIFTH WIFE* 1948 A STAR IN THE NIGHT* 1949 DUET FOR ONE*
1949
THE
LONG
MOMENT*
1950 BROKEN QUIET* 1952 LEFT HOOK* 1954 A BEAR IN THE ATTIC* 1958 JOB* 1959 TIPSY REBELLION* 1961 SISTER WAS A
SPORT* 1961 BUILD ME A BRIDGE* 1961 SIMONE* 1963 JOHNNY* 1965 CARVED IN SNOW* 1966 A PROFILE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN* 1966 A PROFILE OF
HOLMES* 1968 THE DAY OF THE LION** 1968 MRS. LINCOLN* 1968 THE UNITED STATES VS. JULIUS & ETHEL ROSENBERG* 1969 THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON
MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS* 1969 RED'S MY COLOR, WHAT'S YOURS* 1969 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HUGGING AND KISSING and THE HUFF AND THE PUFF* 1970
EXCEPT FOR SUSIE FINKEL* 1971 THE BIRDS* 1971 WOMAN IN THE DUNES* 1971 THE PORTABLE CHEKHOV* 1972 A YARD OF SUN** 1972 RICHARD MORSE
MIME THEATRE I* 1972 THE SHORT MAGICAL MINISTRY OF THE REVEREND DR. JOHN FAUST* 1972 RICHARD MORSE MIME THEATRE II* 1972 THE RABINOWITZ
GAMBIT* 1973 THE REMOVALISTS** 1973 THE MORGAN YARD* 1974 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO* 1975 CONFESSION AT NIGHT**
Eve Roberts, Carolyn Prescott, ANNE OF THE THOUSAND
TARTUFFE, 1965 Opening Production, 50th Season
WORLD PREMIERE
AMERICAN PREMIERE
Ed Binns, Noel Leslie, STATE OF THE UNION, '46-'47
28
DAYS, '51-'52
29
PLAY HOUSE PRESIDENTS
Tennessee Williams CAT
ON A HOT TIN ROOF
was never produced at
the Play House until the
1974-75 season. The
stunning play took on
new life under the
direction of Jonathan
Bolt; featured here are
Paula Wagner as Maggie,
1972 Harold Fallon
Richard Oberlin as Big
Daddy, Douglas Jones as
Brick and June Gibbons
as Big Mama.
1971-72 Mrs. John H. Kennedy
1963-71 Kenyon C. Bolton
1954-59 Alexander C. Brown
1950-54 Jay Iglauer
1948-50 Frederick T. McGuire, Jr.
1945-48 Clarence Collens
1942-45, 59-63 Robert A. Weaver
1939-42 Thomas Sidlo
1935-39 Laurence H. Norton
1932-35 Louis Rorimer
1929-32 Whitney Warner
1927-29 Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
1920-22 Leonard Smith
1919-20 John Strong Newberry
1917-19 Walter Flory
1916-17, 22-27 Charles S. Brooks
THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES: Harold Fallon, President
Mrs. Frederick A. Oldenburg, Vice President
Joseph E. Adams, Vice President
G.
Robert Klein, Vice President
Mrs. David
W. Murray Jr., Vice President and Secretary
George
D. Kirkham, Treasurer
Lewis J. Affelder
Dr. Henry W. Andersen
D. G. Arvanites
Mrs. Matthew A. Baxter
Leonard E.
Birdsong
Edward C. Bloomberg George B. Chapman, Jr.
Robert L. Cromar
Mrs. Robert P. Dalton
James F. Dickerson
George Dobrea
Mrs. Robert F. Doolittle
Arthur E.
Earley
Chester
R.
Edwards
William
H.
Eells
Mrs.
Alvin
B.
Fisher
Alvin
B.
Fisher
Reverend John
Frazier
Eugene
H.
Freedheim
Robert
D.
Gries
Mrs. Lloyd
Hand
Mrs.
Shattuck
W. Hartwell, Jr.
Edward A. Hinkle
William M. Jones
Mrs. Jack W. Kelly
David F. Leahy
Leonard
B.
Lebby
Mrs. Gordon
Long
Harvey
0.
Mierke,
Jr.
Warren
F.
Morgan
Max Muller
George Oliva, Jr.
William A. Polster
Mrs. Thomas H. Roulston
Mrs.
Victor
J.
Scaravilli
Leland Schubert
David
L.
Stashower
Elmer
J.
Whiting,
Jr.
William J. Williams
Mrs. Marc A. Wyse
HONORARY TRUSTEES: Miss Lillian Gish
Joel Grey
Miss Margaret Hamilton
Miss Helen Hayes
ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
Richard T. Baker
Kenyon C. Bolton
Robert
R.
Broadbent
James
C.
Brooks, Jr.
Ralph
A.
Colbert
Robert
P.
Dalton
Mrs. Francis K.
Draz
C.W. Elliott
Oliver F. Emerson
Walter
M.
Goldhamer
Mrs.
John
A.
Hadden, Jr.
H. Stuart
Harrison
Henry
W.
Hopwood
Robert
M.
Hornung
Mrs.
Robert Housum
Robert
Housum
Frank
H.
Hurley
James
D. Ireland
Mrs. G. Robert Klein
Mrs. Emil Klewer
Hayden B. Kline
Jack
W.
Lampl,
Jr.
Alan L. Littman, Jr.
Mrs. K. Elmo Lowe
David
W.
Murray,
Jr.
Mrs.
John
C.
Nichols
Mrs.
R. Henry Norweb, Sr.
R. Henry Norweb, Jr.
Dean G. Ostrum
Mrs. Brayton
Prescott
Mrs.
H. Chapman Rose
H.
Chapman Rose
Frederic H. Roth
Mrs.
Theodore
M.
Sherman
Everett Ware Smith
Mrs. Fred P.
Stashower
Robert
A. Weaver
Ben D. Zevin
PLAY HOUSE FOUNDATION:
Kenyon C. Bolton
Harold Fallon
Eugene H. Freedheim
Clayton G. Hale
Nathaniel R. Howard
Harry L. Jackson
John H. Kerr
G.
Robert Klein
Hayden B. Kline
Jack W.
Lampl, Jr.
William A. Polster
M.
James Reigert
H.
Chapman Rose
Everett Ware Smith
Ben D. Zevin
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"The stage but echoes back the public voice.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
On the opening of the
Drury Lane Theatre, London