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| Date: | 02 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Margaret Strahl, senior at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, sitting at a grand piano at a benefit musicale sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Iota al... |
| Date: | 04 27 1946 |
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| Description: | WIBA radio broadcast showing five young people; one playing the piano, one playing a violin, and three reading scripts. |
| Date: | 08 30 1893 |
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| Description: | Local actors portray a Japanese wedding. The photographer's wife, Ada Bass, had a leading role in the production. |
| Date: | 04 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Posed with their fiddles are Theodore Rygh, Jr., of Woodford, left - third place finisher, and Herman "Tex" Falkenstein, of Madison, right - second place f... |
| Date: | 05 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Youth Journal features a play which students of Wisconsin High School will present in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Pictured are Dorothy Kobs, Paul T... |
| Date: | 03 20 1949 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin honored the dead of four wars with a concert presented by the University Symphony orchestra and chorus that was attended by som... |
| Date: | 03 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Cast members of the 19th century Mexican play "A Ninguna de Las Tres" by Frenando Calderon to be presented at the Memorial Union Play Circle as part of the... |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | East High School actors being made up for a preformance of "Tish." Left to right: Pat Runstrom, Virginia Henrickson, Connie Connor, Leslie West, Rita Cleas... |
| Date: | 10 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Dave Brodhead, Bill Spoentgen and Helen Hosler, three Wisconsin High School students, rehearse for "Trifles", a one-act play. |
| Date: | 10 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Three actors in costume, portraying pre-Revolutionary New England characters in the drama, "The Devil's Disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. The actors, part ... |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a... |
| Date: | 11 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Three members of the play-reading group of the Junior Division of the University League and their husbands meet to read a play. Standing left to right are:... |
| Date: | 12 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Lapham School Nativity play "Small One" is an yearly student Christmas production. "Mary" was played by Jean Loy, 943 East Dayton Street, rode Small One (d... |
| Date: | 02 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Finalists in tryouts for leading roles in the first opera ever to be presented by the Wisconsin Players are shown here with Doris Kassel, accompanist, at a... |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Four actors rehearse for the play "Last Flight Over." From left to right are Pat Burrell, Dave Vogel, Walt Kirchberger, and Kay Esch. |
| Date: | 03 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Three "Irishmen" in the St. Patrick's Day mood. Left to right: Tom McManus of Central High School, Jo Gilbert of Edgewood High School, and "Rusty" Moran of... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Children are entertained by marionettes at the sorority marionette show and tea party at the Edgewater Hotel. |
| Date: | 07 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Pictured are cast members of the Youth Summer Theater, Madison's teenage acting group, shown rehearsing for the production of "Prince Fairyfoot," a play fo... |
| Date: | 06 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Robert Blum (second from right) of Evansville plays in the All-State High School Band with other students at the University of Wisconsin high school music ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Robert Blum of Evansville, front row left, attends a conducting class with other students at the University of Wisconsin high school music clinic. |
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