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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 794 Collections and/or Records:

'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

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00009
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie sits on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00010
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00011
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00012
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00013
Abstract

Russell Hardie (left) as Virgil Blessging and Albert Salmi (center) watch as Peggy Ann Garner (right) as Cherie dances on a table in a scene from the 1955 Central City production of 'Bus Stop.'

Dates: 1955

'Bus Stop', 1955

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0007.00022
Abstract

Photograph of unknown Central City affiliates, president of the Central City Opera House Association, Frank Ricketson Jr. (back center), and actors Albert Salmi (left) and Peggy Ann Garner (holding flowers) on a outdoor stage.

Dates: 1955

'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, 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

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