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Based on the short story \"La cigarette\" by Jules Clartie, \"La Navarraise'' tells the story of a Navarre woman named Anita who is in love with a soldier named Arquil. Both encounter many thwarts to their passionate love, with drama and death ensuing. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA short opera - clocking in around 50 minutes - \"La Navarraise\" was immediately compared to another beloved verismo opera of the time, \"Cavalleria rusticana\" by Pietro Masacagni: \"[B]oth works were startling in their brevity and in their intense drama; both received their Parisian premieres at the Opéra-Comique; and both featured the soprano Emma Calvé in the lead role. Henri Gauthier-Villars even went so far as to observe wryly in L'écho de Paris that Massenet might as well have given La Navarraise the title 'Cavalleria espagnola'\" (Bentley, p.30.) 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The first plate of the costume lithographs features the characters Anita, Arquil, and Remigio. The second features General Garrido, Captain Ramon, and an Aide de Camp. The third and final plate features Captain of the General Staff and A Wounded Soldier. The costume lithographs are hand-colored. All of the lithographs feature the same French text: the title \"La Navarraise Episode Lyrique de J. Massenet.\" as well as the publisher's information on the two bottom corners.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Four lithographs featuring one scene and three plates of costume designs for the opera \"La Navarraise\" by Heugel \u0026 Cie, Editeurs (Huegel music publishing company) printed circa 1894 in Paris. The first lithograph features a black and white street scene from the opera by E. Buval after R. Caney. The first plate of the costume lithographs features the characters Anita, Arquil, and Remigio. The second features General Garrido, Captain Ramon, and an Aide de Camp. The third and final plate features Captain of the General Staff and A Wounded Soldier. The costume lithographs are hand-colored. All of the lithographs feature the same French text: the title \"La Navarraise Episode Lyrique de J. Massenet.\" as well as the publisher's information on the two bottom corners."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePublic Domain. There are no known restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Public Domain. 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Between 1944-1950 he worked on a number of Broadway productions, notably as costume designer for a variety of actors, including Ethel Barrymore, in the 1944-1945 production of  Embezzled Heaven  at the National Theatre (now known as the Nederlander Theatre) and as scenic and costume designer for the 1947 Broadway premiere of German playwright Bertolt Brecht's  Galileo  (also known as  Life of Galileo ) at the Maxine Elliott's Theatre, which was translated by and starred Charles Laughton and ran for 6 performances.","Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in March 2024. 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Williams began working on the play in 1945 as  Chart of Anatomy , derived from his short stories \"Oriflamme\" and the work-in-progress \"Yellow-Bird.\" The play premiered on Broadway at the Magic Box Theatre in March 1948, directed by Margo Jones, and ran for 102 performances. The story is set in the fictional town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi from the turn of the 20th century through 1916 and centers on the unlikely attraction between Alma, a Southern minister's daughter, and her neighbor John Buchanan, Jr., who grows to become a doctor and man of science.","Processing and finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in May 2025.","The Special Collections Research Center holds other  performing arts collections , including other original costume and set designs, such as the  Robert Davison original costume and set design scrapbook  and  \"Cavalleria rusticana\" opera costume paintings .","A group of eleven preparatory pencil costume design drawings and five watercolor costume designs with fabric swatches by Robert Perdziola for the character of Alma in an unidentified production of Tennessee Williams' play  Summer and Smoke . The eleven pencil sketches depict costume designs for the play's Prologue, scenes 1-9, and scenes 11-12. 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