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Moana Bennett papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3739
Scope and Contents
Collection of personal papers and production materials from Moana Bennett. Includes material concerning the play Because of Elizabeth and other plays.
Dates:
1950-1981
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Vincent Godfrey Burns papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 833
Scope and Contents
Poems, newspaper clippings, songs, pamphlets, a script, and programs. Also included are copies of "The Rainbow: Maryland's Poetry Magazine." The materials relate to Bruns' career as a poet and as a writer.
Dates:
1936-1969
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lillian de la Torre papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2167
Abstract
Typed manuscripts of various plays; correspondence, 1966-1985; and research files on her plays, including photographs, scrapbooks, magazines, working notes, bibliographies, news clippings, and correspondence. Also contains certificates, including for Lillian's baptism (Catholic) and marriage.
Dates:
1904-1989
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Fire in the Bones play manuscript
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1440
Scope and Contents
Typed manuscript of Roger's play "Fire in the Bones." The play explores the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre and subsequent execution of John D. Lee.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Play about John C. Fremont [Fremont] coming to Parowan
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3042
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typed manuscript. The author and date of the item are unknown. The play was written for "pioneer days." The play mentions prominent people who had visited or came from Parowan, Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1920
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Nathan and Ruth Hale plays
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1278
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of printed musical and dramatic plays by Nathan Hale and his wife, Ruth Hale. They began writing plays during the Great Depression of the 1930s when their LDS Church ward did not have the funds to purchase royalties. The collection contains 46 plays, many of which have been published.
Dates:
1930-1970
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ira J. Markham papers on the Hill Cumorah Pageant
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 43
Overview
The collection contains scripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and programs relating to various productions for the Hill Cumorah Pageant in New York State, 1937-1968. The correspondence relates specifically to matters of costuming and historical accuracy, while the newspaper clippings include reviews of the pageant and accounts of its history. The materials were compiled by Ira J. Markham.
Dates:
1937-1968
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Leola G. Merrill papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3748
Scope and Contents
Consists primarily of personal papers documenting Merrill's authorship of numerous Mormon-themed dramas and programs, but also contains the personal papers and/or memorabilia of her husband, David M. Merrill, her parents, Luman Peter and Veda Jane Walker Green, and David's father, Amos N. Merrill. Materials dated 1911-2002.
Dates:
1911-2002
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David R. Roberts scripts
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 938
Scope and Contents
Script of pageant calls for a narrator and four characters: Father Adam, Moses, Daniel, and Joseph Smith, each of whom gives a brief synopsis of his life. Each of these prophets tells his own story as found in Mormon scriptures. Roberts wrote this pageant for his Mormon High Priest's Quorum in refutation of the Darwinian theory of evolution.
Dates:
1931
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
What they think
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1487
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy of a typescript of the play "What They Think" by Rachel Crowthers. The play describes a family situation where the children tiptoe around their parents to avoid unpleasant situations.
Dates:
1979
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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