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BOX 1-4 |
Scripts, 1948-1951
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This series contains Nathan Kroll's annotated scripts for the radio series Theatre U.S.A. and Great Scenes from Great Plays, the radio program One Great Hour, and the television series Showtime U.S.A.
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Productions are arranged chronologically. |
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Theatre U.S.A., 1948-1949
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This subseries contains annotated scripts for episodes 1-34 of the ABC radio
series Theatre U.S.A., sponsored by the US Army and Air Force Recruiting Service and the
American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA). The variety show aired on
Thursday nights and contained musical theater performances and scenes from
plays. Nathan Kroll served as the music director, Howard Teichman was the
writer and producer, Irene Goustin was the production assistant, and ANTA
president Vinton Freedley was the host. The scripts are typed on letterhead of
the Gardner Advertising Company located in Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.
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Arranged chronologically. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/1 |
1948 November 11 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/2 |
1948 November 18 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/3 |
1948 November 25 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/4 |
1948 December 2 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/5 |
1948 December 9 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/6 |
1948 December 16 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/7 |
1948 December 23 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/8 |
1948 December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/9 |
1949 January 6 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/10 |
1949 January 13 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/11 |
1949 January 20 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/12 |
1949 January 27 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/13 |
1949 February 3 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/14 |
1949 February 10 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/15 |
1949 February 17 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/16 |
1949 February 24 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/17 |
1949 March 3 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/18 |
1949 March 10 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/19 |
1949 March 17 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/20 |
1949 March 24 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/21 |
1949 March 31 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/22 |
1949 April 7 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/23 |
1949 April 14 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/24 |
1949 April 21 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/25 |
1949 April 28 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/26 |
1949 May 5 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/27 |
1949 May 12 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/28 |
1949 May 15 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/29 |
1949 May 26 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/30 |
1949 June 2 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/31 |
1949 June 9 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/32 |
1949 June 16 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/33 |
1949 June 23 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/34 |
1949 June 30 |
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Great Scenes from Great Plays,
1948-1949 and
undated
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Nathan Kroll's annotated scripts from the Mutual Radio Network program Great Scenes from Great Plays comprise this subseries. The show, which ran from October 1, 1948,
until February 25, 1949, for a total of 22 episodes, adapted approximately
twenty minutes' worth of material from a wide variety of plays for radio broadcast. Plays
included The Devil and Daniel Webster (Benet), A Doll's House (Ibsen), Little Women (Alcott), A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), What Every Woman Knows (Barrie), and Young Mr Lincoln (Trotti). The series was sponsored by The National Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of America and starred veteran actor Walter Hampden
as the host and Kroll as music director. Actors included Joan Caulfield,
Jane Cowl, Henry Fonda, Boris Karloff, Robert Montgomery, Walter Pidgeon, Jane
Powell, Basil Rathbone, Ann Seymore, Beatrice Straight, Shirley Temple, and
Gene Tierney, among others. The scripts are typed on the letterhead of the H.
B. Humphrey Company, Inc. located on Madison Avenue in New York City. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/1 |
Alice Sit-by-the-Fire,
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By J. M. Barrie |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/2 |
The Barretts of Wimpole
Street, 1948 July
6
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By Rudolph Bessier |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/3 |
The Citadel, 1949 January
7
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By A. J. Cronin |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/4 |
The Corn Is Green,
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By Emlyn Williams |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/5 |
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1948 June 15
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By Edmond Rostand |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/6 |
Dark Victory,
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By George Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/7 |
Dead End, 1949 February
11
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By Sidney Kingsley |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/8 |
The Devil and Daniel Webster,
1948 October
22
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By Stephen Vincent Benet |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/9 |
A Doll's House,
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By Henrik Ibsen |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/10 |
The Enchanted Cottage, 1948 October
6
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By Arthur Pinero |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/11 |
The Goose Hangs High, 1949 January
28
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By Lewis Beach |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/12 |
Icebound, 1949 January
21
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By Owen Davis |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/13 |
The Lady With a Lamp, 1949 February
25
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By Reginald Berkeley |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/14 |
Little Women,
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By Louisa May Alcott |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/15 |
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,
1948 October
29
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By J. M. Barrie |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/16 |
On Borrowed Time,
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By Paul Osborne |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/17 |
A Tale of Two Cities,
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By Charles Dickens |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/18 |
Valley Forge,
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By Maxwell Anderson |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/19 |
The World We Make, 1949 February
4
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By Sidney Kingsley |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/20 |
You and I, 1948 December
31
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By Philip Barry |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/21 |
Young Mr. Lincoln, 1948 December
17
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By Lamar Trotti |
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One Great Hour,
1949
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This subseries contains Nathan Kroll's annotated script for the radio program One Great Hour. The program was written by Erik Barnouw, President of the Radio
Writers Guild, to encourage United States citizens to support world relief
work. Kroll served as the composer and conductor. The actors were Ed Begley,
Macdonald Carey, Glenn Ford, William Johnstone, Berry Kroeger, Ida Lupino,
Roddy McDowell, John McIntire, Agnes Moorehead, Gregory Peck, and Walter
Tetley. President Harry S. Truman appeared during the broadcast to give a
speech. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/35 |
1949 March
26
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Showtime U.S.A., 1950-1951
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This subseries contains Nathan Kroll's annotated television scripts for all 39
episodes of Showtime U.S.A. This ABC series was sponsored by the Dodge Division of the Chrysler
Corporation in conjunction with American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA). A
"hit parade" of Broadway-oriented music, comedy, dances, and plays comprised
each episode, which was produced and co-hosted by Vinton Freedley with Nathan
Kroll as music director and Howard Teichman as writer and director. The cast
included a "Who's Who of Show Business," such as Geraldine Brooks, Carol
Channing, Duke Ellington, Henry Fonda, Eva Gabor, Jackie Gleason, Benny
Goodman, Olivia de Havilland, Helen Hayes, Buster Keaton, Henry Morgan, Edith
Piaf, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Reagan, Hazel Scott, Andrés Segovia, Alec
Templeton, Isaac Stern, and Sarah Vaughan. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/1 |
1950 October 1 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/2 |
1950 October 8 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/3 |
1950 October 15 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/4 |
1950 October 22 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/5 |
1950 October 29 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/6 |
1950 November 5 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/7 |
1950 November 12 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/8 |
1950 November 19 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/9 |
1950 November 26 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/10 |
1950 December 3 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/11 |
1950 December 10 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/12 |
1950 December 17 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/13 |
1950 December 24 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/14 |
1950 December 31 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/15 |
1951 January 7 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/16 |
1951 January 14 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/17 |
1951 January 21 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/18 |
1951 January 28 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/19 |
1951 February 4 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/20 |
1951 February 11 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/21 |
1951 February 18 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/22 |
1951 February 25 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/1 |
1951 March 4 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/2 |
1951 March 11 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/3 |
1951 March 18 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/4 |
1951 March 25 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/5 |
1951 April 1 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/6 |
1951 April 8 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/7 |
1951 April 15 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/8 |
1951 April 22 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/9 |
1951 April 29 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/10 |
1951 May 6 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/11 |
1951 May 13 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/12 |
1951 May 20 |
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