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Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)

 Organization

Biography

__ __ __Work cat.: The glory that was gold, 1992: t.p. (Central City Opera House) p. vii (built in 1878 in Central City, Colo.)

Biography

Central City Opera House is given to the University of Denver by the McFarlane family in 1932 (Ida Kruse McFarlane, Professor of English at DU, good friends with Anne Evans). The CCOHA was administered as a non-profit corporation during this time.

Sources

Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 126.

Found in 770 Collections and/or Records:

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00023
Abstract

Photograph of Peggy Ann Garner (front row, left), Albert Salmi (front row, right), Sally Hester (second row, white shirt), Glenn Anders (second row, grey suit), Winifred Ainslee (back row, behind Sally Hester) and other unknonw Central City affiliates of the 1955 production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00003
Abstract

Sally Hester as Elma Duckworth working behind the cafe counter while Albert Salmi as Bo Decker holds Peggy Ann Garner as Cherie in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00005
Abstract

Sally Hester as Elma Duckworth working behind the cafe counter while Albert Salmi as Bo Decker sits at the counter, Peggy Ann Garner as Cherie sits at a near by table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00006
Abstract

Sally Hester as Elma Duckworth working behind the cafe counter talking with Peggy Ann Garner as Cherie sits on the other side of the counter in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00007
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) talk at a small table as Glenn Anders as Dr. Gerald Lyman reads on a bench in the back in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00008
Abstract

Russell Hardie (center) as Virgil Blessging holds back Albert Salmi (left) as Bo Decker as an unknown actor watches in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

Bus Stop 1955, 1955

 File
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007
Abstract

This folder contains photos from the 1955 Central City production "Bus Stop" a play by William Inge.

Dates: 1955

'Cactus Flower', 1967

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0071.0001.00001
Abstract

Cast members of the 1967 Central City production 'Cactus Flower,' (from left to right) Hugh O'Brian, Ethelyne Dunfee and two unidentified affiliates pose for a photograph.

Dates: 1967

'Cactus Flower', 1967

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0071.0001.00002
Abstract

Cast members of the 1967 Central City production 'Cactus Flower,' Hugh O'Brian (center), Ethelyne Dunfee (left) and Elizabeth Allen (right) pose for a photograph.

Dates: 1967

Cactus Flower (1 of 2), 1967, 1967

 File
Identifier: M123.03.0071.0001
Abstract

This file contains photographs from the Central City production of Cactus Flower.

Dates: 1967

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