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Cast of Wisconsin Players Rehearsing for "Bite the Dust"

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Rehearsing for the Wisconsin Players production of "Bite the Dust" are left to right: Irving Kreutz as Six-Killer Onehorse; Patricia McKeene as Polly Pears...
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Junior Chamber of Commerce "Then and Now" Revue

Date: 09 27 1949
Description: Pictured left to right are: John Putnam, 509 East Gorham Street; John Jenswold, 410 Ridge Street, and Bud Paunack, 317 Norris Court, practicing their music...
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Wisconsin Players Theatre Group

Date: 10 21 1949
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 ...
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Wiscons Players Theatre Group

Date: 10 21 1949
Description: Two actresses and one actor in costume, portraying pre-Revolutionary New England characters in the drama, "The Devil's Disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. Th...
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Black Friars Play "The Glass Menagerie"

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a...
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Dogpatchers In Costume

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ...
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Dogpatcher Booth

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: The Dogpathers booth, surrounded by a crowd of children. Text on the banners and other signs read: "Kickapoo Juice Penny Pitch" "Greendale Dogpathers Cause...
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Men Dressed as Hillbilly and a Preacher

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: A man with a gunny sack swung over his shoulder is dressed as a hillbilly with a wig and a fake beard. Next to him stands a man dressed as a preacher, and ...
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Mock Shotgun Wedding

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: A mock shotgun wedding at a Civilian Defense Rally, with a solider marrying a woman with a man dressed as a country priest presiding.
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James Dunn Contributing to Heart Fund

Date: 02 10 1950
Description: James Dunn, stage and movie star who was appearing in the leading role of "Harvey" at the Parkway Theater, is shown contributing to Madison's heart fund dr...
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Wisconsin High School Play Rehearsal

Date: 02 22 1950
Description: Four actors rehearse for the play "Last Flight Over." From left to right are Pat Burrell, Dave Vogel, Walt Kirchberger, and Kay Esch.
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Robert Bloch with Buster Keaton

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Description: Robert Bloch with an aged Buster Keaton.
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Broadway Actor a Guest in Madison

Date: 05 10 1950
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Fellows, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Grossenbach in Madison, sitingt on an upholstered chair. Mr. Fellows, a graduate of the U...
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Gloria Link

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Gloria Link placed second for outstanding performance in the Wisconsin Players' summer season. This was according to a poll of the playbill's directors con...
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"George Spelvin"

Date: 07 22 1950
Description: U.W. Ph.D student and actor, who wished to remain anonymous and so went by the name George Spelvin, in stage productions.
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Academy Award-Winning Butcher

Date: 03 11 1956
Description: Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc...
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Marquette School 202 Club

Date: 04 19 1951
Description: Group portrait of third grade members of the "202" club at Marquette School after they presented a dramatization of "Cinderella" for parents and other Marq...
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Boys in Oriental Costume

Date: 1930
Description: A group portrait of boys and young men in oriental costume and make-up. Most are holding opened hand fans.
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East High School Play

Date: 11 06 1951
Description: Rehearsing for East High School's fall play, "Pride and Prejudice", are (from left): Alice Ghering, Terry Howe, Shirley Jacobson, and Gilbert Splett.
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Wisconsin Idea Theater Group

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Description: Members of the Wisconsin Idea Theater Group in costume, one man posing dressed as a fisherman, a woman as a bathing beauty, and another person as a giant f...

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