Research Catalog

Title

Putnam County Playhouse scrapbook, 1946-1949.

Author

Harms, Carl, 1910-2005

Supplementary Content

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Additional Authors

Putnam County Playhouse (Mahopac, N.Y.)

Description

.25 lf. (1 box)

Subject

• Harms, Carl, 1910-2005
• Marvin, Lee
• Arrick, Larry
• Nichols, Mike
• Archer, Osceola
• Putnam County Playhouse (Mahopac, N.Y.)
• Trial Stages, Inc
• Actors' Equity Association
• Summer theater > New York

Access (note)

• Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Source (note)

• Harms, Carl

Biography (note)

• Carl Harms, actor, appeared in many of the Putnam County Playhouse productions. He joined the Equity Stock Committee in 1947 and became involved in almost every aspect of Actors' Equity Association.
• The Putnam County Playhouse was an offshoot of Trial Stages, Inc., which was formed in 1940 by a group of Broadway actors for the purpose of performing non-royalty plays at a minimum cost for clubs' and service organizations' benefit performances. One of the few cooperative ventures endorsed by Actors Equity, the group toured in and around Manhattan. In 1946, Trial Stages produced its first summer season at the Putnam County Playhouse in Mahopac, New York.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged
• Scrapbook dismantled; items rehoused

Call Number

*T-Mss 1997-022

OCLC

NYPW97-A110

Author

Harms, Carl, 1910-2005.

Title

Putnam County Playhouse scrapbook, 1946-1949.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Summary

The Putnam County Playhouse scrapbook, compiled by Carl Harms, is a record of plays produced at the Playhouse from 1946-1949. Programs, production photographs, and clipping make up the collection. Among the young actors appearing with the company were Lee Marvin, Larry Arrick, Mike Nichols and Isabel Sanford. Of special interest are notes by Carl Harms stating that actress/director/teacher Osceola Archer may have been the first African-American director in summer stock.

Biography

Carl Harms, actor, appeared in many of the Putnam County Playhouse productions. He joined the Equity Stock Committee in 1947 and became involved in almost every aspect of Actors' Equity Association.

The Putnam County Playhouse was an offshoot of Trial Stages, Inc., which was formed in 1940 by a group of Broadway actors for the purpose of performing non-royalty plays at a minimum cost for clubs' and service organizations' benefit performances. One of the few cooperative ventures endorsed by Actors Equity, the group toured in and around Manhattan. In 1946, Trial Stages produced its first summer season at the Putnam County Playhouse in Mahopac, New York.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository: folder level control.

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Added Author

Putnam County Playhouse (Mahopac, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 1997-022