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STEBER Eleanor 1914 1990ABAA

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NORDICA Lillian 1857 1914. Morton Levi P. 1824 1920ABAA

Secretarial letter to Eugene Semple Governor of Washington Territory concerning soprano Lillian Norton Gower Lillian Nordica

236752 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated New York September 28 1888. In black ink. On stationery with "Office of Morton Bliss & Co. New York 188." printed at head. "Will you allow me to present Mrs. Lillian Norton Gower who visits your Territory upon some matters of business connected with her late husband's estate I beg leave to bespeak for Mrs. Gower any good offices which you can consistently render and remain very respectfully yours." Creased at folds; some staining; remnants of former mount to verso of second leaf. Together with an original lithographic campaign item ca. 153 x 69 mm. with portraits of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton surrounded by a bald eagle an American flag and banners which read "For President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana For Vice President Levi P. Morton of New York." With the name of the lithographer Bufford Co. printed to lower edge. Some wear; minor annotations and remnants of adhesive to verso. Nordica nÃ©e Norton was an American soprano who frequently sang at Drury Lane Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera. "After extensive coaching by Cosima Wagner she sang Elsa in the first production of Lohengrin at Bayreuth in 1894. At the height of her Metropolitan Opera career 1893-1907 she was known primarily as a Wagnerian. Nordica had a rich voice and a remarkable coloratura range. She knew 40 operatic roles in English Italian German French and Russian. A resolute and shrewd - but also generally good-natured - individual she owed her stature as a great Wagnerian soprano to hard work constant study and determination. Late in her career she became a strong proponent of opera in English; she was also an ardent suffragist and had an unfulfilled dream of establishing a Bayreuth-like American Institute for Music." Katherine K. Preston in Grove Music Online. Nordica married Frederick Gower in 1882. Three years later in the midst of their divorce proceedings Gower disappeared on an experimental balloon flight across the English channel and was never seen again. Kate Kennedy in More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Maine Women pp. 68-69. Levi P. Morton 1824-1920 was the twenty-second Vice President of the United States 1889-1893 under President Benjamin Harrison 1833-1901. He later served as the thirty-first Governor of New York 1895-1896. Eugene Semple 1840-1908 was the Governor of Washington Territory from 1887 until 1889. unknown books

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Feynman Richard 1918 88ABAA

RICHARD FEYNMAN THEATRICAL COLLECTION: The Theoretical Physicist as Thespian

73246A small collection associated with Richard Feynman's involvement with Theatre Arts at the California Institute of Technology TACIT. All the materials are from the estate of Shirley Marneus who founded TACIT and directed stage productions at Caltech for more than 20 years. Feynman was already regarded as the most brilliant influential and iconoclastic figure in his field when Marneus approached the theoretical physicist who had been a member of the Caltech staff since 1949 about performing in a 1977 production of Guys and Dolls. Feynman recalled this moment in his irreverent memoir Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman 1985 ".at Caltech there's a group that puts on plays. Some of the actors are Caltech students; others are from outside. When there's a small part such as a policeman who's supposed to arrest somebody they get one of the professors to do it. It's always a big joke - the professor comes on and arrests somebody and goes off again. A few years ago the group was doing Guys and Dolls and there was a scene where the main guy takes the girl to Havana and they're in a nightclub. The director thought it would be a good idea to have the bongo player on the stage in the nightclub be me." Feynman was an enthusiastic amateur player of bongo and conga drums having developed a passion for samba music during his 1951-52 sabbatical in Brazil. In her remembrance of Feynman for The California Tech a campus weekly Marneus recalled ".immediately he wanted to find out more about the stage about acting how to do it well to really go for the principles of the form. And though his research classes conferences kept him on a rigorous schedule he always made time to come back to TACIT each time fresh yet more skilled each time challenging himself. Finally as the Sewer King in The Madwoman of Chaillot he pulled off a little jewel of characterization - a mix of wry humour weary insight delicious dubiety determined that the 'good guys' in the play should at least have a chance to win. The subtleties and loving details of his performance how he 'saucered 'n blowed' his tea with an elegant lift to his pinkie finger were noticed by a reviewer who praised his work. This worried him: 'Now I gotta be good!' He was. He was just the best. While he suffered no flatterers and few fools his in-home courtesy was incredible. For instance while he was rehearsing for Kismet he was appointed to the President's Commission on the Challenger explosion. He called me the same night to explain and to ask if I'd understand if he quit the show." Included in this collection is a first edition of the posthumously published Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman which is inscribed by Feynman's daughter editor Michelle Feynman to Shirley Marneus: "For Shirley I know my father thought the world of you - as do I. All the best Michelle Feynman". Also present here are: The original cast information sheet for what is perhaps Feynman's most memorable role: the High Priest in TACIT's 1982 production of South Pacific. It includes Feynman's contact information and complete measurements including shoe and hat sizes. The rehearsal schedule for South Pacific which notes a production meeting with Richard Feynman and fellow Caltech physicist Robert B. Leighton who played the High Priest's assistant Programs for six of the productions in which Feynman appeared and is credited: Guys and Dolls South Pacific four copies The Lady's Not for Burning The Madwoman of Chaillot Kismet and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Cast list organized by scene for TACIT's 1978 production of Fiorello! in which Feynman appeared as a gangster 1983 Caltech Faculty Roster in which Feynman is identified as the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics alongside his portrait Memorial program insert 18 copies dedicating an unnamed production to Feynman "who brought the same compassion integrity and sense of joy to each of his roles as he did to all other aspects of his life." It lists all eight TACIT productions in which he appeared. Some toning and soiling to the programs. Guys and Dolls is hole punched along the left margin and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is folded in half. Overall the material is very good or better condition. unknown books

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