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Floyd and Edith Morgan papers, 1935-1979

Overview of the Collection

Title
Floyd and Edith Morgan papers
Dates
1935-1979 (inclusive)
Quantity
16 boxes, (2.5 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_COLL MSS 222
Summary
This collection consists of the prompt books for plays produced at the Old Main Auditorium, Lyric Theatre, Chase Fine Arts Center, Morgan Theatre, and U.S.U. Amphitheater in Logan, Utah.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Floyd Morgan was born in 1910 and earned an MA in theater from the University of Iowa in the 1930s. For over 40 years, Morgan was a professor and at one time department head of the Theater Arts Department at Utah State University. His wife, Edith, was employed as a journalist at Logan's Herald Journal, and she was also an active supporter of the theater.

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Content Description

This collection consists of the prompt books for plays produced at the Old Main Auditorium, Lyric Theatre, Chase Fine Arts Center, Morgan Theatre and USU amphitheater in Logan, Utah. The collection is arranged chronologically and consists of plays produced between 1935 and 1979.

Box 11 holds some realia and box 12 carries a letter to Edith Morgan from Daryl Chase, president of USU. It also holds a news clipping and materials for the play Look on the Land produced for Cache Valley's Centennial. These materials include programs, posters, scripts, and the prompt book for the production.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Floyd and Edith Morgan papers must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: Floyd and Edith Morgan papers USU_COLL MSS 222, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 222, USUSCA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Processing Note

Processed in April of 1999.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information is unknown.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Prompt book - LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME (The Nobody who Apes Nobility) by Moliere

    Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Old Main Auditorium).

    Dates: 1935 December 12-14
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - DISTANT DRUMS

    by Dan Totheroh (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1937 February 15-17
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - CALL IT A DAY

    by Dodie Smith

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - FIRST LADY

    by Datharine Dayton and George S. Kauffman

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - MAYR OF SCOTLAND

    by Maxwell Anderson (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1940 May 1-4
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - CLAUDIA

    by Rose Franken (Old Main Building-west wing, little theater, second floor)

    Dates: 1946 February 14-20
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE HASTY HEART

    by John Patrick (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1947 January 6-8
    Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE MALE ANIMAL

    by James Thurber Elliott Nugent (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1948 October 27-30
    Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE WINSLOW BOY

    by Terence Rattlgan (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1949 November 2-5
    Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - DEAR BRUTUS
    Dates: 1949 March 1-5
    Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - PYGMALION

    by Bernard Shaw (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1950 January 25-28
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
    Dates: 1950 July 10-13
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

    by John M. Synge (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1950
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

    by Jane Austin ply by Helen Jerome (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1951 November 28 - December 1
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING

    by Christopher Fry (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1952 July 8-11
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE CORN IS GREEN

    by Emlyn Williams (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1953 July 13-16
    Container: Box 3, Folder 6
  • Description: Prompt Book - JANE

    by S.N. Berhman (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1953 July 13-16
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7
  • Description: Prompt Book - PEER GYNT

    by Henrik Ibsen (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1954 January 20-23
    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - TRELAWNEY OF THE WELLS

    by Sir Arthor Wing Pinero (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1955 January 26-29
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME

    by Moliere, Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1956 December 5-8
    Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - AH WILDERNESS

    by Eugene O'Neill (Old Main Building-west wing, little theater)

    Dates: 1957 January 30 - February 16
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - PEER GYNT

    by Henrik Ibsen (USU Amphitheater)

    Dates: 1958 August 11 - 15
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK

    by Sean O'Casey (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1959 December 4-12
    Container: Box 5, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - MARY STUART

    by Schiller translation by Sophie Wilkins (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1961 July 19-26
    Container: Box 5, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE PERIODICAL

    by Jack Richardson (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1962 January 16-20
    Container: Box 5, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - MAJOR BARBARA

    by G.B. Shaw (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1963 February 5-9
    Container: Box 5, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE

    by Kaufman and Hart (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1963 November 11-16
    Container: Box 5, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE IMAGINARY INVALID
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE CEREMONY
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - BLITHE SPIRET

    by Noel Coward (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1965 April 15-24
    Container: Box 6, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE THREE SISTERS

    by Anton Chekhov (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1966 February 3-12
    Container: Box 6, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

    by Oscar Wilde (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1966 July 14-23
    Container: Box 6, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

    by Robert Bolt (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1966 July 28 - August 6
    Container: Box 6, Folder 6
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE BARRETS OF WIMPOLE STREET

    by Rudolf Besier (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1967 January 26 - February 4
    Container: Box 6, Folder 7
  • Description: Prompt Book - CYRANO de BERGERAC

    by Edmond Rostand

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - CYRANO de BERGERAC (continued)

    by Edmond Rostand

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - ANTIGONE

    by Jean Anouilh (Chase Fine Art Center, Morgan Theater)

    Dates: 1968 May 8-11
    Container: Box 7, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - CHARLEY'S AUNT
    Dates: 1968 July-October
    Container: Box 7, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

    by John Synge

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE CHERRY ORCHARDS

    by Anton Chekhov (Chase Fine Art Center Theater)

    Dates: 1969 November 17-21
    Container: Box 7, Folder 6
  • Description: Prompt Book - ROOM SERVICE

    by John Murray (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1970 July-August
    Container: Box 8, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - HAY FEVER

    by Noel Coward (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1971 July-October
    Container: Box 8, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - TANGO

    by Slawamir Mrozek (Chase Fine Art Center, Morgan Theater)

    Dates: 1971 November 17-22
    Container: Box 8, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE by Moliere (Lyric Theater)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - BROWN PELICAN
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 5
  • Description: Script-?
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8, Folder 6
  • Description: Prompt Book - A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

    by Robert Bolt (Morgan Theater)

    Dates: 1973 April 21-28
    Container: Box 9, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - STRAW HAT
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE RIVALS

    by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - DEAR BRUTUS

    J.M. Barrie (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - AH WILDERNESS
    Dates: 1976 March 4-13
    Container: Box 9, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE PRODIGAL

    by Jack Richardson

    Dates: 1979 April
    Container: Box 10, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE TORCH-BEARERS

    by George Kelly (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1979 July-August
    Container: Box 10, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - OUR TOWN

    by Thornton Wilder (Amphitheater)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - OUR TOWN

    by Thornton Wilder

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 1
  • Description: Realia
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 11, Folder 2
  • Description: Letters to Mrs. Edith Morgan from Daryl Chase, President of USU
    Dates: 1955 October 17
    Container: Box 12, Folder 1
  • Description: News clippings
    Dates: 1956 July 17
    Container: Box 12, Folder 2
  • Description: Program for LOOK ON THE LAND

    (for Cache Valley's Centennial)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 3
  • Description: Posters for LOOK ON THE LAND
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 4
  • Description: Script for LOOK ON THE LAND
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 5
  • Description: Script for LOOK ON THE LAND
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 6
  • Description: Script for LOOK ON THE LAND
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 7
  • Description: Script for LOOK ON THE LAND
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 8
  • Description: Side for role of ? LOOK ON THE LAND
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 9
  • Description: Prompt Book - LOOK ON THE LAND

    by Edith Morgan, Moyle Q. Rice, Veneta Nielsen Music by John Philip Dalby (USU Amphitheater)

    Dates: 1956 July 2-14
    Container: Box 12, Folder 10
  • Description: Script - LOOK ON THE LAND
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12, Folder 11
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

    by Shakespeare (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1949 April 28-30
    Container: Box 13, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - ROMEO AND JULIET

    by Shakespeare (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1952 April 23-26
    Container: Box 13, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

    by Shakespeare

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - OTHELLO

    by Shakespeare

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - TWELFTH NIGHT

    by Shakespeare (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1959 April 22-25
    Container: Box 13, Folder 5
  • Description: Prompt Book - RICHARD III

    by Shakespeare (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1960 April 27-30
    Container: Box 14, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - AS YOU LIKE IT

    by Shakespeare (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1963 April 23-27
    Container: Box 14, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

    by Shakespeare (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1966 April 21-30
    Container: Box 14, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - TWELFTH NIGHT

    by Shakespeare

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

    by Shakespeare

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - TWELFTH NIGHT

    by Shakespeare

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - TWELFTH NIGHT(continued)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 3
  • Description: Prompt Book - AS YOU LIKE IT

    by Shakespeare (Morgan Theater)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 15, Folder 4
  • Description: Prompt Book - HAMLET

    by Shakespeare (Old Auditorium)

    Dates: 1955 April 20-23
    Container: Box 16, Folder 1
  • Description: Prompt Book - OTHELLO

    by Shakespeare (Old Main Auditorium)

    Dates: 1958 April 23-26
    Container: Box 16, Folder 2
  • Description: Prompt Book - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

    by Shakespeare (Lyric Theater)

    Dates: 1964 April 16-25
    Container: Box 16, Folder 3

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Subject Terms

  • Theater--Utah--Logan.

Corporate Names

  • Lyric Theatre (Logan, Utah)

Form or Genre Terms

  • Promptbooks.
  • Theater programs.

Titles within the Collection

  • Look on the land.

Finding aid/Register created by Julia Kenyon and Cynthia Lleyson
2011

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