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The Hedley Gordon Graham papers, C0240, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Donated by W. H. Crain at the University of Texas in May 1988.
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.
Organized alphabetically by folder title.
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.
Federal Theatre Project
Acting class and record books
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."
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.