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| Date: | 12 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Five Edgewood High School seniors are shown acting on stage costumed as Nativity shepherds. They are (left to right) Roland Spahr, Victor Crapp, Betty Boll... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Doña Sol de Guevara (played by Nita Naldi) relaxes smoking a cigarette on a divan as her male servant plays the lute in the 1922 Famous Players-Lasky produ... |
| Date: | 05 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Five women in costume, acting in a scene from "Gay Nineties," a skit written by Lorraine Rucker for the Drama and History departments of the Madison Woman'... |
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| Description: | View of a Maema Marionette scene from "The Snow Mountain." Two child puppets play on a see-saw and a female puppet sits on a bench. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
| Date: | 10 23 1953 |
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| Description: | Four costumed actors rehearse for the "Periwinkle Review", an original showboat review sponsored by the Drama Department of the Woman's Club. |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Bill Duren (in the background), owner of Cygnet Films, talks with a production assistant during shooting for a training film. Cygnet Films, which was based... |
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| Description: | Magician Ben Bergor of Madison performing a trick on stage. With him are his wife, who performed as Madame Alva, and an assistant. |
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| Description: | Professional magician Dick DeYoung of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on a stage with three other people. DeYoung had over five decades of experience as a club and s... |
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| Description: | Doc Mann of Beloit, Wisconsin, who performed novelty entertainment and "top hat magic" as Mandu the magician. |
| Date: | 01 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Students at Madison Edgewood High School act out a scene from the play "The Marriage Proposal". Peggy Forster and Michael Kretschman are in the scene and d... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of a series of scenes from a dramatic production: "Down Memory Lane," presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Madison W... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of a series of scenes from the dramatic production "Down Memory Lane", presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Madison ... |
| Date: | 05 28 1934 |
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| Description: | Photograph submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Group portrait of the six women in the Dutch Girls Orchestra. They are posed ons... |
| Date: | 02 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Image from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album, with cast members of the Queen of Hearts play: Armida Peterson, Rose Martinelli (lady-in-waiting), Rosalyn Schi... |
| Date: | 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with cast members of "Feast of the Little Lanterns," a production staged by the Fireside Girls club. The ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Performers lined up on the stage in "The Toy Shop," a Christmas play, with a Santa figure, a boy in harlequin dress, two boys in military uniforms, girls i... |
| Date: | 11 10 1958 |
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| Description: | West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Shown in the foreground are Eric Peterson and Gail Canfield. Surveying the scene through the wi... |
| Date: | 11 10 1958 |
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| Description: | West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Pictured in rehearsal for the mystery comedy are Aleta Nelson, Mary Boyle and Paul Geisler, lef... |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Carol Bryant, Robert Rancourt and Nancy Fowlkes act out a scene from "The Cold Wind and the Warm", the opening play of the Madison Theater Guild season pre... |
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