Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard
University
b
MS Thr 199
Clugston, Katharine, b. 1892.
Katharine Clugston plays,
1931-1941.
1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Collection materials are in English.
Plays by American playwright Katharine Clugston as well as radio plays by other authors.
67M-48. Presented by Miss Katharine Clugston, Chebeague
Island, Maine 04017; received: 1967 August.
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation for Publication:
Katharine Clugston Plays, 1931-1941 (MS Thr 199). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Clugston (1892-1985) was an American playwright.
Organized into the following series:
- I. Katharine Clugston material
- II. Radio plays by others
Includes unsigned typewritten manuscript of Clugston's plays: Finished,
and The head of the family, as well as two set designs by
Spencer Davies in watercolor and pencil for The head of the family.
Also includes mimeographed typescripts of the radio scripts: A matter
of life an death by Leopold Atlas, The house that Jack didn't build
by Alfred Kreymborg, Red-head baker by Albert Maltz, Supply and demand by Irwin Shaw, and an untitled play by Eleanor Troy
Williams, among other items.
I. Katharine Clugston material
(1)
Clugston, Katharine
Finished TS.s. (carbon copy); [New York,
n.d.]
144s. (144p.)
Produced in New York under the title
These days.
Publ. in New York, [1931].
(2)
Clugston, Katharine.
The head of the family. TS (autograph revisions, unsigned);
[n.p., n.d.]
96s. (96p.)
With a later TS. (carbon copy); [n.p., n.d.] 122s. (122p.)
The play later became a movie called
The last
gentleman.
(3)
Davies, Spencer
[The head of the family] 2 drawings in watercolor and pencil;
[n.p., ca. 1935]
2s. (2p.)
Set designs for the Goodman Theatre's production of Katharine Clugston's play
(Mar., 1935).
II. Radio plays by others
(4)
Atlas, Leopold, 1907-
A matter of life and death. TS. (mimeographed); [n.p., 1937].
33s. (33p.)
A radio play based in part on Paul De Kruif's
Why keep them alive?
(5)
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-
The house that Jack didn't build. TS (mimeographed); [n.p., n.d.]
49s. (49p.)
A radio script.
Publ. in William Kozlenko, ed., Contemporary one-act plays (1938),
p. 23-51.
(6)
Maltz, Albert, 1908-
Red-head baker. TS (mimeographed); [n.p., 1937]
48s.(48p.)
A radio script.
Publ. in William Kozlenko, ed, One Hundred non-royalty radio plays
(1941), p. 31-39.
(7)
Shaw, Irwin, 1913-
Supply and demand. TS. (mimeographed); [n.p.,n.d.]
36s. (36p.)
A radio script.
(8)
Smith, Boyd
The patriarch; a play in three acts. TS (mimeographed);
[n.p.,n.d.]
122s. (122p.)
Publ. New York, [1931]
(9)
Williams, Eleanor Troy [Untitled radio script] TS (mimeographed); [n.p.,n.d.]
45s. (45p.)