Theaters

Theater on Rizal Avenue, Manila, Philippines, featuring "Vodavil". Sign on building reads "Atomic Bomb Business Enterprises." People on street are unidentified. Donor: John Paxton.

The "Astor" movie theatre on an unidentified street in Manila, Philippines. Donor: John Paxton.

A view of the lobby of the Max Rheinhardt Theater in Berlin, Germany, which escaped total destruction in the Allied bombing, but sustained so many roof leaks that water runs all over the floor.

The Metropolitan Opera House in Manila, the Philippines. This photo was taken by Vernice Anderson when she traveled with Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup on his mission to the Far East.

Bess Truman, seated in a row with four unidentified women, shakes hands with an unidentified man standing in front of her. The audience is seated in what appears to be a theater or hall. From: Truman Home.

Color candid shots of unidentified actors taken during the play "Julius Caesar" presented in the Rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol Building, Jefferson City, Missouri, November 15 and 16, 1958.

Margaret Truman and James Stewart rehearse, in Hollywood, California, for their April 26th radio performance on Screen Director's Playhouse in "Jackpot." It will be her first appearance in a straight dramatic role, with no singing. She will play Stewart's wife and the mother of two children. (See also 2009-1628.) From: Truman Home, from scrapbook on Margaret Truman that was transferred to the manuscript collection.

Holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing an evening gown and fur wrap, Margaret Truman gets a hand of applause as she makes her appearance at the opening of the Metropolitan Opera's 64th season amidst the usual glitter of jewelry, fashions, and celebrities. The others in the photo are unidentified. (See also 78-339.) (Original in oversize drawer). From: Truman Home.

View of the audience, taken from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. They await the opening of Wagner's Lohengrin, ushering in the 1945-46 season, its 61st. Slightly off-center in a box draped with the American flag are Bess and Margaret Truman. The others are unidentified. (Original in oversize file). From: Truman Home.

View of building described as "the Theatre" at Displaced Persons Farm, formerly owned by "Jew Baiter" Streicher, in Furth, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).