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Guide to the Molka Reich papers, 1904-1986 C0229

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Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Identification
C0229
Title
Molka Reich papers 1904-1986
Quantity
6 Linear Feet, (9 boxes)
Creator
Reich, Molka
Language
English .
Summary
The Molka Reich papers includes playscripts, programs, puppetry newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks with most of it dating from the 1930s to the 1950s. About half of the material directly relates to the Federal Theatre Project, especially the newspaper clippings, programs, and scrapbooks. Many of the puppetry newsletters and playscripts are from after the 1930s. Some of the material relates to the actor Scott Griffin who acted with the Federal Theatre Project in Miami, Florida, alongside Reich.

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There are no use restrictions.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation note

Molka Reich papers, Collection C0229, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Molka Reich in 1980 and 1981. Scott Griffin material presented by Molka Reich for the Scott Griffin estate on June 25, 1979.

Processing Information

Processed in December 2012 by Greta Kuriger Suiter. EAD completed in January 2013 by Greta Kuriger Suiter.

Biographical note

Molka Reich studied puppetry under Remo Bufano in New York during the 1920s. She and her husband moved to Miami, Florida, in 1930. While there, she joined the Federal Writers Project, and then the Federal Theatre Project. She started with the FTP as an actress but soon was working with the marionette unit where she made puppets, wrote and adapted scripts, and built sets. As an actress she appeared in the Federal Theatre production Engaged that was performed in August of 1936. She stayed with the Federal Theatre Project until 1939, after which she continued to be a proponent for puppetry. In Miami, she served as president of the Business and Professional Women's Club.

Scope and Content

The Molka Reich papers includes playscripts, programs, puppetry newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks with most of it dating from the 1930s to the 1950s. About half of the material directly relates to the Federal Theatre project, especially the newspaper clippings, programs, and scrapbooks. Many of the puppetry newsletters and playscripts are from after the 1930s. Some of the material relates to the actor Scott Griffin who acted with the Federal Theatre Project in Miami, Florida, alongside Reich.

Series 1 contains many different types of materials including essays, puppetry newsletters, play synopses, published plays, vaudeville sketches, marionette patterns in various sizes, and original artwork by Ken Bare. Materials are arranged alphabetically.

Series 2 contains newspaper clippings from Miami, Florida, newspapers. Many of the newsclippings are reviews for plays that Molka Reich or Scott Griffin were involved in. This series is arranged alphabetically.

Series 3 contains photographs both black and white and color and in a variety of sizes. Photographs consist of portraits of Molka Reich, and Scott Griffin, as well as production photographs, and photographs of a Jack and the Beanstalk marionette. This series is arranged alphabetically.

Series 4 is the largest series and contains scripts for plays and some radio productions. Some of the scripts have accompanying music, mostly handwritten. This series is arranged alphabetically by title.

Series 5 contains programs for Federal Theatre productions and non Federal Theatre productions that were performed in Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Long Island and Pawling, New York; and The Smithsonian in Washington D.C. This series is arranged alphabetically.

Series 6 contains scrapbooks that have been disassembled and foldered. The Molka Reich scrapbook 1928-1948 contains mostly material relating to Scott Griffin. There is also a scrapbook for marionette newspaper and magazine clippings, a scrapbook with clippings and programs from productions in Miami, and a scrapbook containing calendar programs for the Starlight Theater in Pawling, New York. This series is arranged by size of material.

Arrangement

Organized into six series:

Missing Title Series 1: Essays, newsletters, published works, and miscellany, 1904-1950 (Boxes 1-2, 9) Series 2: Newspaper clippings, 1936-1986 (Box 2) Series 3: Photographs, circa 1930s-1940s (Boxes 2, 9) Series 4: Playscripts, 1920s-1953 (Boxes 2-6) Series 5: Programs, 1928-1950s (Boxes 6-7) Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1920s-1950s (Boxes 7-8)

Related Material

Special Collections and Archives also holds the Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, the Federal Theatre Project collection, the Federal Theatre Project photograph collection, as well as numerous other personal papers.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
  • New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Theater -- United States

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Reich, Molka
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Container List

Series 1: Essays, newsletters, published works, and miscellany
1904-1980s
Scope and Content

Series 1 contains many different types of materials including essays, puppetry newsletters, play synopses and published plays and vaudeville sketches, marionette patterns in various sizes, and original artwork by Ken Bare. Materials are arranged alphabetically.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1
    A & B Booksellers theatre catalog
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2
    Bare, Ken
    1930s
    Scope and Content

    Blueprint for portable stage

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3
    Bare, Ken
    1930s
    Scope and Content

    Original artwork for set and other designs - watercolors, pencil drawings

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4
    Denison's Vaudeville Sketches
    1904-1934
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5
    Dolls and puppets
    1930s-1940s
    Scope and Content

    Newsletters, catalogs, pamphlets related to dolls, marionettes, and puppets

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 6
    Fairy Tales for Workers Children
    1925
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 7
    Federal Theatre Project at George Mason University
    circa 1970s-1980s
    Scope and Content

    Pamphlets and newsletters related to George Mason events revolving around puppetry and the Federal Theatre Project

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 8
    History of the Drama 20th century
    circa 1935-1939
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 9
    History of the Drama series, outline for class study
    1937-1939
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 10
    Letter
    March 3, 1940
    Scope and Content

    "Dear Charlotte", possibly from Scott Griffin

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 11
    Marionette pattern for a 18" cloth marionette
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 12
    Marionette pattern for a 15" marionette
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 13
    Marionette pattern for a 9" marionette
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 2
    Marionette patterns for larger marionettes,
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 2
    Marionette patterns (oversize)
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 14
    Newsletters
    1980s
    Scope and Content

    Newsletters from The Puppetry Guild of Greater New York, The Puppeteers of America, The Puppeteers of America Regional Reporter for the Southeast Region, D. C. Puppetimes, George Mason University Golden Anniversary Puppetry Festival, The Puppet Guild of Greater Miami, Barry University Department of Theatre, The Puppet Masters calendar featuring famous puppeteers, itinerary for trip to Japan (UNIMA XV 1988)

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 15
    Notes on the Soviet Theatre
    February 1946
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 16
    Play synopses (article from magazine?)
    circa 1920s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 1
    Published plays
    1918; 1935
    Scope and Content

    12 Plays for Boys and Girls edited by Ben Blake with pictures by Bill Siegel; The Slave with Two Faces by Mary Carolyn Davies

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 2
    Shakespeare: Actor and Critic by George Henry Lewes
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 3
    Theatre Workshop
    1936-1937
    Scope and Content

    Three issues: Art of Acting Issue (1936), Second Art of Acting Issue (1937), Fall Issue (1937)

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Series 2: Newspaper clippings
1936-1986
Scope and Content

Series 2 contains newspaper clippings from Miami, Florida newspapers. Many of the newsclippings are reviews for plays that Molka Reich or Scott Griffin were involved in. This series is arranged alphabetically.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 4
    Newsclippings
    1981-1987
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 5
    A
    1938
    Scope and Content

    Ah, Wilderness; Altars of Steel

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 6
    B
    1937-1938
    Scope and Content

    Boy Meets Girl; The Bride the Sun Shines On

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 7
    C
    1936-1937
    Scope and Content

    Candle Light; Chalk Dust; Coquette; Criminal at Large

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 8
    Engaged
    1936
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 9
    Gallows Gate
    1937
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 10
    If Ye Break Faith
    1938
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 11
    M
    1938
    Scope and Content

    Miami Federal Theatre; Molka Reich; Mystery of the Boardwalk Asylum

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 12
    N
    September 25, 1936
    Scope and Content

    "New Director Named for Theatre Project", article about Dorothea Lynch becoming state director for the Federal Theatre.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 13
    One More Spring
    1937
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 14
    Room Service
    1939
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 15
    S
    1936
    Scope and Content

    Smilin' Through; actor Scott Griffin

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 16
    Twelfth Night
    March 31, 1937
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 17
    Two years of WPA
    1937
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 18
    UNIMA (l'Union Internationale de la Marionette) Congress and World Puppetry Festival
    1980
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 19
    When Knighthood was in Flower
    1938
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 20
    You and I
    July 1936
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Series 3: Photographs
circa 1930s-1980s
Scope and Content

Series 3 contains photographs both black and white and color and in a variety of sizes. Photographs consist of portraits of Molka Reich, and Scott Griffin, as well as production photographs, and photographs of the Jack and the Beanstalk marionette. This series is arranged alphabetically.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 21
    Engaged
    1936
    Scope and Content

    1 production photograph featuring actors on stage. An actor in center is holding a gun to his head.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 22
    Jack and the Beanstalk
    1983
    Scope and Content

    Color photographs of Jack and the beanstalk puppet.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 1
    Molka Reich portraits
    circa 1920s-1930s
    Scope and Content

    12 oversize photographs, 10 of which are professional portraits taken by Charles Cooper in Miami, Florida.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Molka Reich portraits
    circa 1920s-1930s
    Scope and Content

    2 oversize matted photographic portraits of Molka Reich.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 23
    Molka Reich puppet demonstration
    circa 1970s-1980s
    Scope and Content

    14 color photographs of Reich leading a marionette demonstration.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 24
    Molka Reich with Bimbo
    circa 1930s; circa 1980s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 25
    Portraits of Scott Griffin, Molka Reich, and an unidentified woman
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 26
    Puppets and stage productions
    circa 1930s
    Scope and Content

    9 black and white photographs of Reich's marionettes, staged productions with actors, and includes two photographs of an audience of children watching Bimbo perform.

  • Graphic Materials box: 9
    Stage photographs with sets and performers
    circa 1930s
    Scope and Content

    One photograph is of the play "Engaged" and the other is unidentified.

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Series 4: Playscripts
1920s-1953
Scope and Content

Series 4 is the largest series and contains scripts for plays and some radio productions. Some of the scripts have accompanying music, mostly handwritten. This series is arranged alphabetically by title.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 27
    Ambassador's Conference
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 28
    An Apple for Venus
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 29
    Anna Christie
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 30
    Another Language
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 31
    Anteroom
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 32
    Anything Could Happen
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 33
    Art - Where Art Thou?
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 34
    The Baxters:The Baxters adopt a family, episode 24 by Ruth Moore
    circa 1940s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 35
    Beachhead on the Campus by Milton Geiger
    October 1, 1945
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 36
    Before and After by Edward Mann
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 37
    The Blase Mrs. Dade by Carl Glick
    circa 1920s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 38
    Blockhead Hans photocopy
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 39
    Blood and Hoe Cake photocopy
    circa 1940s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 40
    Blow East, Blow West
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 41
    Bruin's Inn by Ann Townsend
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 42
    Caesar Gets Crowned
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 43
    Celebration for Lincoln's Birthday
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
    Cinderella
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Includes script and sheet music

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
    Community Players
    1953
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3
    The Conflict
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
    Cousin Billy at the Circus
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Abstract

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
    The Case of the Empty Purse by Sol Barzman and Mel Waters
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 6
    Dick Martin
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Scott Griffin's copy

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 7
    The Economist by Ben and Sol Barzman
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 8
    El Cristo
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 9
    Emblem of Guatemala
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 10
    Exiles
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 11
    The Face
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 12
    Faith of a Child
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 13
    The Farce of Master Pierre Patelin
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 14
    Farewell Appearance
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 15
    Felicia and the Pot of Pinks (children's story)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 16
    Fido the Clown
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 17
    The Flattering Word
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 18
    Flood Control
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 19
    Food
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 20
    Freud
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 21
    The Frog Prince (for marionettes)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 22
    Fumed Oak by Noel Coward; Bury the Dead
    undated
    • Fumed Oak by Noel Coward
      undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 23
    The Game
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 24
    Gas
    circa 1930s-1940s
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 25
    Ghosts
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 26
    Ghosts (act 2)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 27
    The Glittering Gate
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 28
    Good Night, Caroline
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 29
    The Greatest of These
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Director's copy

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 1
    Hansel and Gretel
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 2
    Henny Penny
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 3
    From the Henry Morgan Show
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Includes note from Syl to Helen: "Couldn't find the columns I mentioned to you, but in the search uncovered some old Morgan scripts I did for the Eversharp show. The enclosed is an excerpt, from about the only one that could be cut and still be effective. Probably would serve as a space filler and be good for a few laughs. Will try to find the other stuff for a later issue."

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 4
    The Hiccuping Mr. Higgins
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 5
    His Majesty the Microbe
    circa 1935-1939
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy of Federal Theatre Project script

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 6
    Holiday
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 7
    How to Tell a True Princess
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 8
    A Husband for Breakfast
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 9
    I Have No Prayer by Arch Oboler for the National Conference of Christians and Jews
    1943
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 10
    If This Be Reason by members of the local #20
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 11
    The Investigators
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 12
    The Investigators
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Sheet music

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 13
    The Irksome Beelzy
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 14
    J. P. Dropabomb by Amos Hull
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 15
    Jack and the Beanstalk
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 16
    Jergens Journal
    February 11, 1940
    Scope and Content

    Radio production with Andrew Jergens

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 17
    Joe and Edna script
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 18
    A Joke on the Sun (marionette play)
    1934
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 19
    Kids Learn Fast
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 20
    Let Us Be Gay
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 21
    Liberty Skit
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 22
    Little Black Sambo
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 23
    Little Black Sambo
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 24
    Little Black Sambo
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy of script and sheet music

    • Little Black Sambo
      undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 25
    Little Red Riding Hood
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 26
    The Londonderry Air; Where the Cross is Made by Eugene O'Neill
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 27
    The Marrying Kind
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 28
    Memo to the People by Sol Panitz for the World Security Workshop
    March 6, 1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 29
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 30
    Miss Marlow at Play
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

    • Miss Marlow at Play
      undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 31
    Miss Molbray's Big Moment
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 32
    Music for World Brotherhood by Jerome Bayer
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Script for the American Brotherhood: The National Conference of Christians and Jews

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 33
    Nancy Hanks, Bondswoman
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy. Includes four scripts, one for each actor.

    • Nancy Hanks, Bondswoman (Lemmer)
      undated
    • Nancy Hanks, Bondswoman (Sarah)
      undated
    • Nancy Hanks, Bondswoman (Tom)
      undated
    • Nancy Hanks, Bondswoman (Abraham)
      undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 34
    The Nightingale
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 35
    North Flies South (radio play)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 36
    One Sunday Afternoon
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 37
    Pan America's Reception Pageant
    April 14, 1931
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 1
    Pageant on World Peace by Paul Harris, Jr.
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 2
    Peace in Our Time
    circa 1939
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 3
    Peace plays: The Soldier's Dream, The Plow of Peace, The Little Green Table
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 4
    Pierre Abelard
    1935
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 5
    Pinocchio
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 6
    Pirates of Finance
    1940
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 7
    Play for Children
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 8
    A Powerful Enemy
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 9
    Princess Chooses
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 10
    Private Hicks
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 11
    The Quest
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 12
    Recreation Project
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Multiple scripts with holiday themes

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 13
    Red White and Blue Network (a satirical monologue)
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 14
    Right About Face
    untitled
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 15
    Recitation (an idea for an original radio program)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 16
    Room for a Crib by Lee Gilbert
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 17
    Rumpelstiltskin
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 18
    Rust on the Iron Curtain by Abe Stone
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 19
    Saturday's Children by Maxwell Anderson
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 20
    The Scarecrow Who Wished For the Moon
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 21
    Secrets
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 22
    Sham
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 23
    Sheet music and lyrics
    circa 1930s
    Scope and Content

    Miscellaneous mostly handwritten pages of sheet music and lyrics, some for marionette productions

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 24
    The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 25
    Sixth Column
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 26
    Sleeping Beauty
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 27
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Script and sheet music

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 28
    So You Won't Talk?
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 29
    Somebody - Nothing
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 30
    The Soldier Who Became a Great Dane
    1946
  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 31
    Snow White and Rose Red
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 1
    The Stronger Woman
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 2
    Suppressed Desires
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 3
    Talk in Darkness
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 4
    Tarzan
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 5
    The Tender Elves
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 6
    There's Always Juliet
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 7
    This is Heaven
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 8
    This Thing Called Love
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 9
    Thorn in the Flesh
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 10
    Three Clever People
    undated
    • Three Clever People
      undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 11
    The Three Little Pigs (a marionette play)
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Includes script and music

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 12
    The Three Wishes
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Includes script and music

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 13
    Three's a Crowd
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 14
    The Tinderbox
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

    • The Tinderbox
      undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 15
    Tinsel
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 16
    Tolstoy (essay)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 17
    The Totem
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 18
    Treasure Island
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 19
    Two Birds with One Stone
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Photocopy

    • Two Birds with One Stone
      undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 20
    Unknown script
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Pages 2 to 30. Characters include Mrs. Giles, Mrs. Adams, Harry, Miss Mobray, and Walter.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 21
    The Valiant
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 22
    The Valiant
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 23
    What's in a Name?
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 24
    Why am I a Bachelor
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 25
    Why the Chimes Rang
    1938
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 26
    Wonder Town
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 27
    The Youngest
    undated
    Scope and Content

    Scott Griffin's script

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Series 5: Programs
1928-1950s
Scope and Content

Series 5 contains programs for Federal Theatre productions and non Federal Theatre productions that were performed in Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Long Island and Pawling, New York; and The Smithsonian in Washington D.C. This series is arranged alphabetically.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 28
    A-F
    1936-1982
    Scope and Content

    Altars of Steel; Ah, Wilderness!; The Bishop Misbehaves; The Bride the Sun Shines On; Criminal at Large; Coquette; Chalk Dust; Craig's Wife; A Classic Vaudeville; The Emperor's New Clothes; Engaged; Folk Music in the Roosevelt White House (produced by the Smithsonian Institution Office of Folklife programs)

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 29
    G
    1930s-1957
    Scope and Content

    The Ghost Train; The Gallows Gate; The Great Sebastians

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 1
    H-L
    1931-1958
    Scope and Content

    The Happiest Millionaire; If Ye Break Faith; Inherit the Wind; International Society for Contemporary Music; Lightnin (invitation and program); The Loud Red Patrick

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 2
    The Marionette Unit
    circa 1938-1939
    Scope and Content

    Double sided one page flyer for the Marionette Unit directed by Molka Reich. The front page features reviews from places the troop performed, the back features their repertoire.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 3
    M-P
    1936-1958
    Scope and Content

    May Day; Margin for Error; The Mask and the Face; Mehitable Wing; The Matchmaker; The New York Idea; The 9th Guest; No Time for Sergeants; One More Spring; An Evening of Experimental One Act Plays; Post Road

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 4
    The Molka Reich Studio
    1940
    Scope and Content

    Two invitations for events at the Molka Reich Studio.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 5
    R-W
    1936-1958
    Scope and Content

    The Starlight Theatre (1957 Summer calendar); Room Service; The Reluctant Debutante; Smilin' Through (includes ticket, programs, press release, for Jacksonville, Florida production); Separate Tables; Sabrina Fair; Twelfth Night; Visit to a Small Planet; Whom Dreams Possess; What a Life; What a Woman Wants; Witness for Prosecution

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 6
    Their Annual Minstrel Show (Miami Business of Professional Women's Club)
    April 1937
  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 7
    Turnabout Theatre presents a repertory of puppet musical comedies and intimate revues
    circa 1952
  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 8
    The Winter's Tale
    March 1939
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Series 6: Scrapbooks
1920s-1950s
Scope and Content

Series 6 contains scrapbooks that have been disassembled and foldered. The Molka Reich scrapbook 1928-1948 contains mostly material relating to Scott Griffin. There is also a scrapbook for marionette newspaper and magazine clippings, a scrapbook with clippings and programs from productions in Miami, and a scrapbook containing calendar programs for the Starlight Theater in Pawling, New York. This series is arranged by size of material.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 9
    Scrapbook pages
    circa 1930s
    Scope and Content

    Separated 8.25"x9.25" scrapbook pages with 5"x7" black and white photographs adhered to them. Photographs feature marionettes and Molka Reich.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 10
    Molka Reich scrapbook 1928-1948 covers
    1928-1948
    Scope and Content

    1 of 5

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 11
    Molka Reich scrapbook 1928-1948 pages
    1928-1948
    Scope and Content

    2 of 5. Newspaper clippings, programs, telegrams, and handwritten notes to and about Scott Griffin regarding theatre productions including: Coquette, This Thing Called Love, two one act plays performed at the Little Theatre (Bereguisse and The Torch-Bearers), a calendar for plays at the Florida Forum and Assembly (1934), The Pretender, Broken Dishes, Hired Husbands, The Nervous Wreck, The Big Pond, Why Wives Worry, Smilin' Thru, Thank You, and The Love Critic.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 12
    Molka Reich scrapbook 1928-1948 newsclippings
    1930s-1940s
    Scope and Content

    3 of 5

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 13
    Molka Reich scrapbook 1928-1948 loose ephemera
    1930s
    Scope and Content

    4 of 5. Includes programs for The Last of Mrs. Cheney, Our Town, Little Women, and Room Service. Includes playscripts for If Ye Break Faith and Two Crooks and a Lady, as well as handwritten and typewritten notes, a flyer for the production of Coquette, and an entry ticket for the Manhattan Repertory Theatre Co. at the Miami Playhouse.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 14
    Molka Reich scrapbook 1928-1948 Billy Griffin
    1928-1948
    Scope and Content

    5 of 5. Material relating to Billy Griffin (later Scott Griffin). Includes negatives and portrait print as well as report cards and calling cards.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 15
    Marionettes scrapbook
    1930s-1950s
    Scope and Content

    1 of 2. Contains primarily magazine and newspaper articles featuring marionettes. There is also a certificate for Mrs. Howard Fitch for completing the Cultural Olympics in Woodstown, New Jersey (May 5, 1938). Clippings and certificate are attached to scrapbook paper.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 16
    Marionettes scrapbook
    1930s-1950s
    Scope and Content

    2 of 2. Contains loose newspaper and magazine clippings featuring articles on marionettes.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 19
    Loose materials,
    circa 1938-1941
    Scope and Content

    Includes newsclippings, newsclippings attached to paper, a program, and marionette patterns.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 17
    Loose scrapbook materials
    1930s
    Scope and Content

    Includes programs for the West Florida Music and Arts Festival, International Society for Contemporary Music (1931), newspaper and magazine clippings featuring marionettes.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 18
    Marionettes by children loose scrapbook pages
    circa 1930s
    Scope and Content

    Newspaper articles from the Monitor titled "Marionettes by Children" that illustrate how one can make their own marionette.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 1
    Miami scrapbook
    1936-1937
    Scope and Content

    Oversize. Molka Reich scrapbook featuring newspaper clippings and programs from Miami Federal Theatre and non Federal Theatre productions. Pages have been separated.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 2
    Starlight Theater scrapbook
    circa 1955
    Scope and Content

    Oversize. Scrapbook pages separated, featuring programs and newspaper clipping from productions performed at Starlight Theater in Pawling, New York.

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