Box 8

Scope and Contents

These Playbills, theatre programs, performance programs, and advertisements are from the United States and do NOT feature Helen Gahagan Douglas.

Scope and Contents

Photocopied newspaper clippings detailing Helen Gahagan Douglas' radio appearances from 1937 to 1938, with one article dated 1926. Newspapers include the Hollywood Citizen-News, The Daily News (Los Angeles, CA), the Evening News, The Los Angeles Examiner, Hollywood Now, and the New York Times.

Scope and Contents

A 13 page transcript of Helen Gahagan Douglas' Radio "Conversation" interview with KHJ's Ed Schallert, covering her stage, film, and music career as well as her relationship with Melvyn Douglas and her opinion on Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin. The interview aired on Sunday night, August 2, 1936 at 10:15 pm.

Scope and Contents

A copy of the royalty agreement with Miller Music, Inc. for the song "I'll Never Be More Free".

Scope and Contents Contains telegrams to Helen Gahagan Douglas, Melvyn Douglas, and Glenn Hunter from Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Augustus Thomas, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Leopold Stokowski, George Tyler, Beatrice and Robert Greig, Jo Landis, Agnes O'Neill, Melvyn Douglas' Aunt Joe, "Jane and Rachel", "Bockey", David Belasco, "Tyler", "Murray", Donnelly Picks, "Helene and George", George Cehanovsky, Elizabeth Grimball, "Alice and Fritz", Olga Baclanova and Nicholas, William Conklin, Helen Gahagan Douglas' mother and...

Scope and Contents

Photocopied newspaper clippings regarding Dan Totheroh and the play "Searching for the Sun". Newspapers include the New York Evening Journal.

Scope and Contents

At the MacDowell Gallery, 108 West 55th Street, New York, NY, June 7-9, 1922. Helen Gahagan played the role of Margaret Wollaston.

Scope and Contents

At the Hotel St. George, February 21st, 1924. Helen Gahagan gave an address titled "Ideals of the Stage". Contains handwritten notes on the back of the program.

Scope and Contents

Direction of George C. Tyler. Spring 1927. Contains an insert detailing the company tour. Also contains a brief summary of Helen Gahagan's roles thus far, sheet music for the songs, signatures of the principal cast, and list of actors who held the roles in previous runs of the play. Helen Gahagan played the role of Rose Trelawny.

Scope and Contents

Helen Gahagan Douglas' mother is listed on the Patroness Committee. Contains a program for the First American Concert given by Helen Gahagan, Dramatic Soprano and George Cehanovski, Baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on January 23, 1930. Also included are translations of the songs Gahagan and Cehanovski sing.