Coward, Noel, 1899-1973
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1899-12-16 - 1973-03-26
Noel Coward (1899-1973), English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
"After the ball : a musical play by Noel Coward based on Lady Windemere's fan by Oscar Wilde", [ 1954?]
Part of Collection — Box: 78, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-10
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Playscript, typescript carbon.
Dates:
[ 1954?]
[Grand tour; arr.], [1971]
Part of Collection — Box: 13, Folder: 8
Call Number: MSS 28, Series II
Dates:
[1971]
[Grand tour; arr.] The Grand Tour : a Ballet for the Royal Ballet of London / Music : Noel Coward ; Adapted and orchestrated by Hershy Kay ; Choreography : Joe Layton, 1971 Feb. 7
Part of Collection — Box: 13, Folder: 7
Call Number: MSS 28, Series II
Dates:
1971 Feb. 7
"Island fling : comedy in three acts adapted from the french of Andre Roussin", [1949]
Part of Collection — Box: 78, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-5
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Playscript, typescript, corrected.
Folder retitled: "The Little Hut."
Accompanied by one TLS from ["Toley"?] to [John C. Wilson?] regarding revisions to the play, mentioning Mr. Beaumont and Lord Chamberlain, and manuscript notes in hand of [John C. Wilson?] listing names of people to whom copies of the script were distributed, including Alfred Lunt, Judith Anderson and Claudette Colbert.
Folder retitled: "The Little Hut."
Accompanied by one TLS from ["Toley"?] to [John C. Wilson?] regarding revisions to the play, mentioning Mr. Beaumont and Lord Chamberlain, and manuscript notes in hand of [John C. Wilson?] listing names of people to whom copies of the script were distributed, including Alfred Lunt, Judith Anderson and Claudette Colbert.
Dates:
[1949]
Frederick R. Koch collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Overview:
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and...
Dates:
1640-1983
Max Lerner papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 322
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers, (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter...
Dates:
1927-1998
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Max Lerner papers
Papers relating to "Set to music", 1938-39, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 78, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-7-8-9
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Papers include a corrected typescript carbon draft of a prompt script, correspondence, finanical records, and printed material relating to the 1939 staging at New York's Music Box theater. Correspondence includes typed transciptions of telegrams, dating from 1938, between Coward, John C. Wilson, and G. E. Calthrop. Financial records include receipts and a weekly profit statement. Printed materials include a playbill.
Accompanied by folder.
Accompanied by folder.
Dates:
1938-39, n.d.
"Peace in our time : a play in two acts and eight scenes", n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 77, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Playscript, typescript.
Accompanied by folder.
Accompanied by folder.
Dates:
n.d.
Photograph of Noel Coward, circa 1966
Part of Collection — Box: 265, Folder: 32
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
One black and white photographic portrait of Noel Coward, taken by Richard De Combray at the Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy, circa 1966.
Dates:
circa 1966
The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 52
Overview:
The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers consist mainly of photographs taken by the German-American recording engineer and photographer Frederick Plaut (1907-1985). Correspondence and other papers relating to Plaut and his wife are also included.
Dates:
1907-1986 (inclusive)
"Present laughter : a light comedy in three acts", n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 77, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Playscript, typescript carbon.
Accompanied by folder.
Accompanied by folder.
Dates:
n.d.
"Quadrille : a romantic comedy in three acts", 1953 Jun 14
Part of Collection — Box: 77, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Playscript, typescript carbon, corrected.
Accompanied by folder.
Accompanied by folder.
Dates:
1953 Jun 14
"Set to music", [1938]
Part of Collection — Box: 78, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-6
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Playscript, typescript, draft.
Accompanied by folder.
Accompanied by folder.
Dates:
[1938]
"Time remembered : a play in three acts", [1941]
Part of Collection — Box: 77, Folder: GROUP 3096, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Playscript, typescript carbon.
Dates:
[1941]
Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Collection
Call Number: MSS 30
Overview:
Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the German-American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and the German-American actress and singer Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)
Dates:
1890-1984, inclusive
Mary Hoyt Wiborg papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1408
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, personal papers, printed material, and electronic files by or relating to Mary Hoyt Wiborg. Materials document her life as an expatriate in France, service as a volunteer nurse in both World Wars, and work as a playwright. Included are letters from Wiborg to her father Frank Bestow Wiborg in 1918, describing her experiences at a French military hospital during World War I, and correspondence with her sisters Sara Murphy and Olga...
Dates:
circa 1910s-2017, bulk 1914-1964
John C. Wilson Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1127
Overview:
The John C. Wilson papers consist of scrapbooks, photographs, and other material documenting the life and work of American producer and director John C. Wilson.
Dates:
1898-1978
John C. Wilson Theater Collection on Noel Coward
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 608
Overview:
Collection, including playscripts, production files, and printed materials, documenting the professional collaboration between American theater producer and director John C. Wilson and British playwright Noel Coward.
Dates:
1931-1955