Series X. Scripts
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Scope and Content Notes: There are thirty-nine titles arranged alphabetically in this series. Includes scripts of Ellis productions and other plays in which he had some interest of varying degree. Various titles appear in several versions, of which the most interesting is S.J. Perelman’s
The Beauty Part (6 versions, final version not included). Of eight stage manager’s books included, two are Ellis' -
The Body Beautiful and
Magnolia Alley.
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Subseries 1. The Advocate
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Early version -
Before I Sleep
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Revised Final script, August 1963
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Box 27
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The American Dame: A Play/Out - Docudrama by Philip C. Lewis
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Angela: A Comedy in Three Acts - Script precedes summer tryout, by Sumner Arthur Long, 1968
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Subseries 2. The Beauty Part
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Earliest version - Mimeo
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Earliest version with extensive penciled revisions and substitute leaves
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Typescript incorporating holograph revisions of folder 4 version
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“Old Act I” - A further revision of version 3 (Folder 5). Carbon typescript
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Revised Act I - A further revision of version 4 (Folder 6). Typescript
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“1st revision, Act I only – Old Act II” - Carbon typescripts
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Final complete version - Carbon typescript
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Final complete version as above - Mimeo
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“Pages removed from Perelman script” - written on sheet appended to 1st page. Mimeo / typescript
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Typescript leaves with revisions or substitute leaves - Some revisions are incorporated in the 1963 Samuel French edition
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Subseries 3. Beer Island: A Play in Three Acts
Box 28
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1-2 |
Copies 1 and 2
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Subseries 4. The Body Beautiful
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Stage manager’s book (Ellis) - Revised October 15, 1957, with holograph note on cover: revision 11-26-57
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Subseries 5. Ceremonies in Dark Old Men: A Play in Two Acts
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4-5 |
Copies 1 and 2
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Stage manager’s book
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Subseries 6. Come Blow Your Horn: A Comedy
Box 29
Subseries 7. Courtin’ Time: A Musical Comedy
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Version 2 with holograph revisions
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Version 3 with stage manager’s book
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Subseries 8. Daphne in Cottage D: A Play in Three Acts
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Versions 1 and 2 - Order not determined
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Subseries 9. Edgar and Alice
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Five Star Final - Louis Weitzenkorn as played at the Cort Theatre in New York, January 1931
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Subseries 10. The Girl in the Freudian Slip
Box 30
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Version 3 - Florida script, March 20, 1967
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Subseries 11. Half In Earnest: A Musical Adaptation of the Importance of Being Earnest…
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Typescript with holograph and typed revisions and notes
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Box 31
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I’ll Always Remember Miss Whatsername: A Romantic Comedy - Patrick Lawrence
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Subseries 12. Jenny Kissed Me: A Comedy in Three Acts
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Stage manager’s book
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Subseries 13. The Last Dance (with title: Strange Anniversary)
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Stage manager’s book
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Line: A Play in Two Acts - Fourth Draft by Israel Horovitz, 1968
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The Magistrate - Arthur Wing Pinero
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Subseries 14. Magnolia Alley
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Stage manager’s book (Ellis)
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The Marriner Method…A Comedy - Otis Bigelow
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The Mask - H.M. Harwood?
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Subseries 15. The Mirror Under the Eagle: A Conversation Piece
Box 32
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First draft – Revise to p. 72
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Version 2 with sub-title - A play-out, 1958
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Subseries 16. Mrs. Gibbon’s Boys: A Comedy
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Typescript with holograph revisions
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Subseries 17. The Name of the Game
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Early version as
Remember Sweet Alice
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Version 2, November 20, 1965
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Version 3 as
The Name of the Game
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Box 33
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Version 3 - Copy 2
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Version 4, January 1967
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Version 5 - Stage manager’s script
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Subseries 18. Nothing but the Truth: A Comedy in Three Acts
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Samuel French acting edition - Stage manager’s copy directed by Ellis at American Church in Paris, April 1938
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Subseries 19. The Paisley Convertible: A Comedy
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Early version - as
Early to Bed, 1966
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As
The Paisley Convertible - Copy 1, December 27, 1966
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Box 34
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As
The Paisley Convertible - Copy 2
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Subseries 20. A Perfect Frenzy: A Farce Comedy
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Stage manager’s book for Bucks County 15th Anniversary show
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Subseries 21. The Play’s the Thing
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Stage manager’s book
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Subseries 22. Pueblo: A Play
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First draft, April 1, 1970
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Subseries 23. Remember Sweet Alice
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Rollo: A Play in Three Acts - Adapted by Felicity Douglas
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Subseries 24. Sweet Eros and Witness
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Stage manager’s book
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Subseries 25. Twelve Angry Men
Box 35
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Ellis' translation from the French translation for Bucks County - with some stage directions
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French translation:
Douze hommes en colere - in L’Avant-scene 184
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Subseries 26. A Ton of Bricks: A New Comedy
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Version 1, September 1961
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Version 2 - Revision, May 1962
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Version 3 - Revision, July 1962
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We Call to Mind: A Docudrama - Philip C. Lewis
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Subseries 27. What Did We Do Wrong? A New Comedy
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Copies 1 and 2
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Script changes - Loose pages
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Which Way the Wind: Docudrama… - Philip C. Lewis, c.1959
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Box 36
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A Whiff of Melancholy: A Play in Three Acts - James W. Andres, 1961
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Subseries 28. Whoever Finds This Bottle
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Possible final version - Mimeo
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Subseries 29. You Never Know: Musical version of Candlelight
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Partial typescript - Samuel French edition of Candlelight included
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