The Hedley Gordon Graham papers contains a scrapbook, acting classes grade books, family photographs and photographs of Federal
Theatre Project productions, correspondence, playbills, cards (possibly used for a treasure hunt game), scripts, and magazine
and newspaper articles. Federal Theatre material includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and scripts for productions of
O Say Can You Sing, Triple A Plowed Under, Altars of Steel, and Living Newspaper productions in Chicago.
There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Hedley Gordon Graham papers must be obtained
from Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
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Preferred Citation
The Hedley Gordon Graham papers, C0240, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Acquisition Information
Donated by W. H. Crain at the University of Texas in May 1988.
Processing Information
Processing completed by Greta Kuriger Suiter in September 2013. EAD markup completed by Greta Kuriger Suiter in September
2013.
Gordon Hedley Graham was a drama major at Columbia University and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in
1925, he also spent a year at the Royal Academy of London and a year at the Max Reinhardt School of Drama in Salzburg, Austria.
Professional experience includes working for the Theatre Guild in New York City as an Actor, Stage Manager, and Director of
Understudies; work in Hollywood for MGM and Warner Brothers, as well as work in New Orleans. For the Federal Theatre Project
he worked as the Assistant Executive Director of the I6 states and directed The Living Newspaper Theatre in Chicago for two
years. He also taught at a variety of institutions including the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Adelphi College, Columbia
University, Warner Brothers, Easthampton School of Rhythmics (which he also owned), and the Theatre School of Drama at Carnegie
Hall.
The Hedley Gordon Graham papers contains a scrapbook, acting classes grade books, family photographs and photographs of Federal
Theatre Project productions, correspondence, playbills, cards (possibly used for a treasure hunt game), scripts, and magazine
and newspaper articles. Federal Theatre material includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and scripts for productions of
O Say Can You Sing, Triple A Plowed Under, Altars of Steel, and Living Newspaper productions in Chicago.
The collection is divided into two series.
Series one consists of documents and photographs and is organized alphabetically.
Series two consists of oversize materials including three portrait photographs, a diploma, and a scrapbook.
The Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, the Federal Theatre Project collection, the Federal Theatre Project
photograph collection, as well as numerous other personal papers.
Series one contains acting classes grade books, family photographs and photographs of Federal Theatre Project productions,
correspondence, playbills, cards (possibly used for a treasure hunt game), scripts, and magazine and newspaper articles. This
series is organized alphabetically by folder title.
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Correspondence,
1928-1929
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Correspondence,
1930s
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Correspondence,
1940s
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Correspondence,
1950s
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Correspondence,
1960s
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Correspondence,
1970s
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Correspondence,
circa 1930s-1970s
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Correspondence and notes, Federal Theatre Project,
1930s
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Employment documents; Radio production for Recreation manual; programs,
1936-1941
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Living Newspaper programs,
May 1936
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Louisiana trip with Joe Earle,
1949
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Miscellaneous: travel related, Long Island Fair, theatre techniques,
1931-1983
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Newspaper clippings,
1935-1937
Federal Theatre Project
Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
Newspaper clippings,
1943-1983
Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
Notebook of song lyrics,
1936
Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Notebooks,
1950s
Acting class and record books
Mixed materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
O Say Can You Sing lyrics,
circa 1930s
Includes photocopies of lyrics to the songs "I could go for you," "O say can you sing," "The show must go on," and "When we're
out of the red and into the blue."
Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Photographs,
circa 1920s-1977
Personal photographs and Federal Theatre Project related. Altars of Steel in Atlanta and the Living Newspaper production 1935.
Series two consists of three large portrait photographs, a diploma, and Hedley Gordon Graham's Federal Theatre Project related
scrapbook. This series is organized alphabetically.
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