MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aPN2093$b.A44 1877 no. Thr. E/A
245 00 $aAbe Lincoln in Illinois.
260 $c1940.
300 $a1 v. (theater program).
520 $aThe Newspaper Women's Club of Washington through the courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures has the honor to present "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" to support the Club's bed in Children's Hospital and for the Fellowship Fund of the Newspaper Women's Club. The City of Washington fittingly has been selected for the world premiere engagement of the motion picutre ot the sensationally acclaimed hit, Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer prize play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," with Raymond Massey. The producing staff: Produced by Max Gordon, directed by John Cromwell, screen play by Robert E. Sherwood, adaptation by Grover Jones based on the Pulitzer Prize play produced by the Playwrights' Company. Musical score by Roy Webb, director of photography, James Wong Howe, A.S.C., specail effects by Vernon L. Walker, A.S.C., art director, Van Nest Polglase, art associate, Carroll Clark, set decorations by Casey Roberts, wardrobe by Walter Plunkett, montage by Douglas Travers, edited by George Hively, assistant director Dewey Starkey, dance director, David Robel. RKO Radio picture.
500 $aRKO Keith's Theatre, Washington, D.C., Monday evening, January 22, 1940.
500 $aTitle devised by Library staff.
500 $aCast: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Dorothy Tree, Harvey Stephens, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Howard da Silva, Maurice Murphy, Clem Bevans, Herbert Rudley, Roger Imhoff, Edmund Elton, George Rosener, Trevor Bardette, Elisabeth Risdon, Napoleon Simpson, Aldrich Bowker, Louis Jean Heydt, Harlan Briggs, Andy Clyde, Leona Roberts, Florence Roberts, Fay Helm, Syd Saylor, Charles Middleton, Alec Craig.
500 $aChairman of the benefit: Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Helene Livingston Kravadze, Mrs. Cordell Hull, Marie McNair, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mrs. Atherton Macondray, Katharine Brooks, Margaret Germond, Alice Eversman, Marie Watts, Jackie Martin, Ann Marshall, Harriet Ventress Heald, Elisabeth Ellicott Poe, Anne Graham.
500 $aThe Newspaper Women's Club of Washington Honorary members: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Northampton, Mass, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Palo Alto, Cal. Honorary president: Kate Scott Brooks.
580 $aIn: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
561 $aLC copy: Gift: Mrs. Grant Foreman, October 6, 1942.$5DLC
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$vDrama.
650 0 $aBenefit performances$zWashington (D.C.)
655 7 $aTheater programs$zWashington (D.C.)$2rbgenr
655 7 $aTheater programs$y1940.$2rbgenr
655 7 $aMotion picture programs$zWashington (D.C.)$2lcsh
655 7 $aMotion picture programs$y1940.$2lcsh
700 1 $aMassey, Raymond.
700 1 $aGordon, Max,$d1892-1978.
700 1 $aCromwell, John,$d1888-1979.
700 1 $aJones, Grover,$d1893-1940.
700 1 $aSherwood, Robert E.$q(Robert Emmet),$d1896-1955.$tAbe Lincoln in Illinois.
700 1 $aForeman, Carolyn Thomas,$d1875-$edonor.$5DLC
710 2 $aRKO Radio Pictures.
710 2 $aNewspaper Women's Club of Washington.
710 2 $aChildren's Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
710 2 $aB. F. Keith's Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
710 2 $aPlaywrights' Company.
710 2 $aTheater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
730 0 $aAbe Lincoln in Illinois (Motion picture)
752 $aUnited States$bDistrict of Columbia$dWashington.