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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Arnold Moss papers, 1935-1987 (bulk 1953-1987)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Moss, Arnold</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1910-1989</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>2,100</extent>
    <extent>11</extent>
    <extent>4.4</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>General correspondence; theater file (1953-1987) comprising, correspondence, contracts. scripts, playbills and programs, financial records, clippings, and other papers; and subject file containing correspondence, notes, speeches, writings, drafts of crossword puzzles, clippings, and printed matter.  The collection documents Moss's career primarily as a stage actor, producer, and director and includes records of the Shakespeare Festival Players, a touring repertory company that Moss founded, and files on his adaptation and production of Bernard Shaw's play, Back to Methuselah (1957-1958), in which he played Shaw.   Also includes material on his activities as a specialist in theater for the U.S. Dept. of State traveling to Latin America, Africa, and the Far East; and his dramatic readings and presentations at the Library of Congress and at colleges and universities.  Correspondents include Philip Burton, Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, and Harold Prince.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, photocopies (positive).</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Actor, director, theatrical producer, and crossword puzzle maker.  Died 1989.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007102">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007102</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burton, Philip</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Malamud, Bernard</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Miller, Arthur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1915-2005</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Prince, Harold</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1928-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shaw, Bernard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1950</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Department of State.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Library of Congress.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Shakespeare Festival Players</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Acting</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Crossword puzzles</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Drama</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Repertory theater</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theater</topic>
    <topic>Production and direction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theater</topic>
    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theater</topic>
    <geographic>Far East</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theater</topic>
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Actors</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Crossword puzzle makers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Theatrical producers</occupation>
  </subject>
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