This collection documents the work of Garrett H. Leverton, who was a professor of speech and drama in addition to being a theater director. The collection contains play scripts that Leverton collected from various sources, potentially for an anthologized publication. The collection also contains curriculum and course notes that Leverton created for the instruction of speech, acting, and stage production in the 1920's and 1930's. Topics represented in the collection include dramatic arts, theater production, acting, and instruction in theater. Also included are prompt books, reports, and production notes for student productions at the Northwestern University Theatre from the 1930's. These reports include costume design sketches, crew member reviews, stage design, and playbills. Leverton's personal papers include correspondence, the bulk of which was exchanged with Barrett Clark, as well as his diplomas from DePauw University, Northwestern University, and Columbia University. There are many photographs included in the collection, both of scenes on stage as well as potraits of Leverton and other individuals, some identified.
Leverton, Garrett H. (Garrett Hasty), 1896-1949Typescript, 40 pp., soft bound in a blue folder printed from "Selwyn & Co., Play Brokers...New York," upper left corner of front cover.
12.5" x 16.5" black and white, silver gelatin portrait of Garrett Leverton. Stamped Alfredo Valente in lower right corner. Some silvering.
Diploma for Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University
Diploma for Master of Arts from Northwestern University
Diploma for Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University
Includes portrait and Diplomas
Handwritten ink prompt script, on three-ring punched paper. There are listings of properties, lighting, and characters, with a diagram of the ground plan, second part.See the program for the "The Spook Sonata," item 10, the play that appeared as the first part of a two-play program, "March 21-22-23," at Northwestern, directed by Leverton. Kenneth Higgins wrote the program note for "Theater of the Soul." The play was directed by John Baird.
Galleys of Samuel French 1932 ed. pasted on three-rind binder paper, with annotations in ink, 30 leaves.
Prompt script, typed, with ink annotations and stage diagrams. This preceded by a pasted-in program, "March 21-22-23" and directed by Leverton, at the Northwestern University Theatre. The program note is by Marguerite Koneckny.
Stage Crew Report and fold-out plans and reports for properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and make-up.
Prompt script, typed with hand printing and diagrams in ink. Title-page: "Paths of Glory'/ A Play /adapted by / Sidney Howard / from the novel by / Humphrey Cobb...." roughed out for Samuel French, and with a forward "for College Theatres" by Sidney Howard, the forward not present.
Production reports for a 1937 performance of the play
Paper diagrams, production reports, and stage blocking diagrams for a 1936 performance of the play
Three playbills and a promptbook comprised of pasted in book pages with annotations in ink and by hand.
Carbon copy of masters thesis
Master's thesis package for this play by Francis Beaumont, 1584-1616, and John Fletcher, 1579-1623, including script, music, playbill for this revival production on July 29, 1936 at Northwestern U., etc. Notable are thirty full-color hand-painted costume plates, plus one stage ground plan and one such elevation, painted in color.
Production reports on the play which ran at Northwestern: make-up, technicians, and properties.
Partial package, apparently for a thesis (on list of such Dramatic production Theses, elsewhere in collection). Part II, sections 1 (prompt script) and 2 (scene designs, three color elevations, three plans, equipment set-up charts, light plot; costuming, with twenty color plates; properties; music; and make-up).
Production package for a January and June (commencement) production of Ghosts, by the Seminar in Dramatic Production: typed prompt script with diagrams and photos of stage directions and appearance, and Part II, Technical Reports (Stage managers with working drawings and elevations, properties, costumes, and make-up. Originally leather-bound, zip ring binder, stamped in gold "GHOSTS / Ibsen," included.