PUBLIC "-//Virginia Military Institute::Preston Library::Archives//TEXT (US::ViLxV::vilxv00039::A Guide to the Brother Rat Collection)//EN" "vilxv00039.xml" A Guide to the Brother Rat Collection, 1934-1939 Brother Rat (play and feature film) mss 00005 Diane B. Jacob Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Virginia Military Institute Archives © 2002 Virginia Military Institute

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from Microsoft Access database. Machine-readable finding aid created by Diane Jacob. Date of source: 2002 Description is in English Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//Virginia Military Institute::Preston Library::Archives//TEXT (US::ViLxV::vilxv00039::A Guide to the Brother Rat Collection)//EN" "vilxv00039.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 26, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Brother Rat Collection, 1934-1939 A Collection in Virginia Military Institute Archives mss 00005

Virginia Military Institute Archives 2002 Virginia Military Institute Archives Staff Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Archives, Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute Descriptive Summary Archives, Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute Brother Rat Collection 1934-1939 mss 00005 The collection is filed in two manuscript boxes. English Administrative Information Access

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Brother Rat Collection, mss 00005, Virginia Military Institute Archives, Lexington, Virginia.

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The Brother Rat collection contains photographs, playbills, clippings, correspondence, scripts, and other items documenting the stage and film versions of Brother Ratby Fred F. Finklehoffe and John Monks, Jr. Set at the Virginia Military Institute, from which the authors graduated in 1932, the play was a Broadway hit in 1936 and was subsequently produced by many regional theaters. The film was produced by Hal B. Wallis for Warner Brothers Studios in 1938. Its stars included Ronald Reagan, Eddie Albert, and Jane Wyman.