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    Series 5: Dance and Theatre Correspondence/Subject Files, 1902-1953, undated (Box 2-3; 0.8 linear feet)

    This series contains correspondence with actors, dancers, playwrights, theatre patrons, dance and theatre organizations and clubs, and individual theatres, as well as related materials collected by Roberts. Folders may contain a variety of material, including letters, invitations, photographs, programs and event booklets, news clippings, and other printed material.

    Roberts was friends with many prominent performers from the early twentieth century and a small amount of their correspondence is found here. She wrote and published articles about dancers, actors, and other performers, but was also a great admirer and supporter of modern dance and theatre, participating in many organizations, including the Drama League of America in which she was a member of their Playgoing Committee of New York. Correspondence of note is with actors Charles "Orlando" Coburn, William Faversham, and Walter Hampden, actresses Eva Le Gallienne and Mary Shaw, playwrights Louis K. Anspacher, Cosmo Hamilton, and Percy MacKaye, dancer and artist Angna Enters, theatre patron Mrs. Samuel "Minnie" Untermyer, and Romola Nijinsky, wife of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Additional significant correspondence is with the "Duncan Dancers", students of Isadora Duncan, including Anna, Irma, Lisa, and others. There is also a small amount of correspondence with Isadora Duncan and her brother Augustin Duncan and his wife Margherita, as well as printed material documenting their careers as dancers and photographs of Isadora and Anna Duncan. Other items of note in this series include photographs of actress Maxine Elliott and dancer Doris Humphrey, and a small painted self-portrait of Angna Enters. Several folders of Miscellaneous Dance Files include correspondence and a large amount of printed material about individual dancers and performances.

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D164 258-261 Actor-Managers, Inc., 1927-1931, undated
    D164 257 Actors' Fund Matinee Club, 1930

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    D163 464-472 American Laboratory Theatre, 1925-1930
    D163 473-478 Ames, Winthrop, 1910-1917
    D163 479-481 Anderson, John Murray, 1920-1925
    D163 482-496 Anspacher, Louis K. and Kathryn, 1916-1947
    D163 497 Baker, George P., 1913
    D163 498-501 Becque, Don Oscar & Elizabeth, 1945, undated
    D163 502-508 Bernays, Edward L., 1915-1916, 1938
    D163 509-516 Bowers, Edward J., 1915-1917, 1946, undated
    D163 517-522 Castle, Irene, 1918, 1922, 1950, undated
    D163 523-557 Coburn, Charles (Orlando) & Ivah (1 of 2), 1909-1944, undated
    D163 558-608 Coburn, Charles (Orlando) & Ivah (2 of 2), 1909-1944, undated
    D163 609 Collier, Constance, undated

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    D164 301-303 The Country Playhouse, 1917

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    D163 842-846 De Mille, Agnes & Anna G., 1935, 1942, undated
    D163 847-862 Drama League of America (1 of 2), 1911-1919, undated
    D163 863-938 Drama League of America (2 of 2), 1911-1919, undated
    D163 939-945 Draper, Muriel, 1932-1941, undated
    D163 1053-1076 Duncan, Augustin & Margherita, 1913-1943, undated
    D163 946-985 Duncan Dancers (1 of 2), circa 1917-1950, undated
    D163 986-1052 Duncan Dancers (2 of 2), circa 1917-1950, undated
    D163 1077-1178 Duncan, Isadora, 1908-1949, undated (2 folders)
    D163 1179-1186 Elliott, Maxine, circa 1916-1920

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    unfilmed Emery, Gilbert, circa 1922-1925

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    D163 1187-1226 Enters, Angna, 1926-1949, undated

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    D164 338-356 Episcopal Actor's Guild, 1947, 1953, undated
    D164 357-361 Equity Players, Inc., 1924, undated

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    D163 1227-1266 Faversham, William & Julie, 1902-1927, undated
    D163 1267-1277 Garden, Mary, undated
    D163 1278-1279 Guy, Edna, 1934, undated
    D163 1280-1291 Hamilton, Cosmo & Julie, 1930, 1942, undated
    D163 1292-1308 Hampden, Walter & Mabel, 1915-1944
    D163 707-712 Humphrey, Doris, 1930, 1932, undated

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    D164 1-3 Irving, Isabel, 1909
    D164 4-5 Kahn, Otto H., 1926-1927
    D164 6-10 Kirstein, Lincoln, 1940-1941, undated
    D164 11-28 Le Gallienne, Eva, 1925-1941, undated
    D164 29-63 Le Gallienne, Richard, Irma & Julie, 1904-1941, undated
    D164 64-75 Loftus, Cecelia, circa 1913-1940
    D164 76-77 Losch, Tilly, 1931, undated
    D164 78-84 Lunt, Alfred, 1952, undated
    D164 85-103 MacKaye, Percy, 1913-1917, 1945, 1949
    D164 104-113 Morin, Pilar, 1910
    D164 411-413 National Federation of Theatre Clubs, 1912
    D164 414-416 Neighborhood Playhouse, 1915-1916, undated
    D164 114-146 Nijinsky, Romola, 1916-1952
    D164 147-150 Parker, Louise N., 1912
    D164 151-152 The Players, 1913, 1923, 1924
    D164 446-458 Provincetown Players, 1916-1927
    D164 459-464 Punch & Judy Theatre, 1915
    D164 153-159 Row, Arthur, 1949, undated
    D164 160-170 Shaw, Mary, 1909-1916, undated
    D164 171-177 Skinner, Cordelia & Otis, 1915, undated
    D164 178-179 St. Denis, Ruth, 1945
    D164 180-183 Terry, Ellen, 1911, 1916
    D164 184-200 Theatre Guild, 1918-circa 1933
    D164 230-256 Untermyer, Mrs. Samuel (Minnie), 1911-1923, undated
    D164 486-488 Walker, Stuart, 1915, 1919, undated
    D164 489-496 Washington Square Players, 1915, undated

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    D163 772-790 Wigman, Mary, 1929-1931, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D164 262-300 Miscellaneous, A-C, 1910-1945
    D164 304-337 Miscellaneous, D, 1909-1937, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D163 610-706 Miscellaneous, Dance Material (1 of 3), 1910-1950, undated
    D163 713-771 Miscellaneous, Dance Material (2 of 3), 1910-1950, undated
    D163 791-841 Miscellaneous, Dance Material (3 of 3), 1910-1950, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D164 362-393 Miscellaneous, E-K, circa 1911-1938, undated
    D164 394-410 Miscellaneous, L-M, 1915-1930, undated
    D164 417-445 Miscellaneous, N-P, 1915-1936, undated
    D164 465-485 Miscellaneous, R-T, 1916-1937, undated
    D164 497-506 Miscellaneous, W-Z, 1916, undated

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