Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files
- Title
- Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files, 1925-1969.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 1 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1968-005 Box 1 | Item locationOffsite |
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- Description
- .21 linear feet (1 box )
- Summary
- The Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files chiefly contain correspondence, consisting mostly of letters sent to Greenspan in her capacity as business manager for the Guild.
- Uniform title
- United States Steel hour (Television program)
- Subject
- Administrative assistants
- Programs
- Correspondence
- Contracts
- Theater management > United States
- Theater management > New York (State) > New York
- Theater > United States > 20th century
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Administrative assistants > New York (State) > New York
- Theatre Guild
- Westley, Helen, 1879-1942 > Correspondence
- Patch, Blanche, 1878- > Correspondence
- Moeller, Philip, 1880-1958 > Correspondence
- O'Neill, Carlotta > Correspondence
- Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959 > Correspondence
- Greenspan, Sara, 1894-1968
- Genre/Form
- Contracts.
- Correspondence.
- Programs.
- Call number
- *T-Mss 1968-005
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography (note)
- In a lengthy association that spanned some of the most significant years of operation for the Theatre Guild, Sara Greenspan (1894-1968), served as the prestigious production company's business manager.
- Indexes/finding aids (note)
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Author
- Greenspan, Sara, 1894-1968.
- Title
- Sara Greenspan Theatre Guild files, 1925-1969.
- Restricted access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- In a lengthy association that spanned some of the most significant years of operation for the Theatre Guild, Sara Greenspan (1894-1968), served as the prestigious production company's business manager. She began with the Guild as a secretary in 1925 and later functioned as its business manager for twenty years, before retiring in 1963. Greenspan's positions with the Guild enabled her to interact with many of the most important composers, directors, performers, and playwrights in twentieth century American theater. Among the most delicate of her duties was the distribution of opening night tickets for productions put on by the Guild. Greenspan also was responsible for completing many of the administrative tasks involved with running the Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society Subscription Service, which handled national touring productions. Shortly before her retirement, she appeared as an extra in The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (1963), the final episode in the Theatre Guild's television anthology series, The United States Steel Hour. Greenspan, who was born in New York City, attended Washington Irving High School and was married to pharmacist Meyer Levy.
- Indexes
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Location of other archival materials
- See also Theatre Guild Archive in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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- Occupation
- Administrative assistants.
- Added author
- Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981.
- Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959.
- Moeller, Philip, 1880-1958.
- O'Neill, Carlotta.
- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
- Patch, Blanche, 1878-
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Westley, Helen, 1875 or 1879-1942.
- Theatre Guild.
- Added title
- United States Steel hour (Television program)
- Research call number
- *T-Mss 1968-005