Photograph identified as follows: "Bard's Folly." Written and produced by Harvey Fite in Orient Theater (1935), this is a skit about John Bard reluctantly giving his consent to having a college and enrolling the first student. Cast (from left to...
The actors are identified, from left: Betsy Boyd '51, Carlos Rangel '51, and Hyacinth Coopersmith '48. Carlos Rangel became a prominent writer, journalist and television personality in Venezuala. At his death in 1988, the New York Times called...
Dramatics Club production of Emperor Jones. Description of the play can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Jones. Bill Duke has gone on to perform in plays, TV and to direct. His biography can be found at...
In this photograph, twenty-one people are posed on a low theater stage. All of the people are dressed in costume. Two of the individuals - a man and a woman - are in blackface. Two people are holding tennis rackets, one is holding a ukelele and one...
In this photograph, twenty-six people are posed on a low theater stage. All of the people are dressed in costume. Two of the individuals - a man and a woman - are in blackface. Two people are holding tennis rackets, and one is holding a banjo.
In this photograph, twenty-six people are posed on a low theater stage. All of the people are dressed in costume. Two of the individuals - a man and a woman - are in blackface. Two people are holding tennis rackets, and one is holding a banjo.
Author Ben Hecht is seated at a dinner, holding a cigar in his left hand. Seated next to him is actor Robert Shaw. Two Nyack officials are standing in the back, Alex Caglione and Rocco Logiodice. Both served terms as mayor of Nyack.
Jackie Coogan, the young film star, stands with his father, Hugo Kolb, Jack Shankey, and Gus Wilson at Wilson's training camp in Orangeburg. Hugo Kolb was a Nyack resident, living on Front Street. He owned a garage at the corner of Sixth and North...
On September 26, 1987 the Nyack Library sponsored a tribute to the writer and South Nyack resident, Carson McCullers. Several actors and actresses with ties to McCullers' works were in the performance, which was at St. Paul's Methodist Church in...