Detailed List of Contents

"Adventure", an original play in three acts by Edith Ellis

"Any Day" by Edward Ellis

"Any Night", a play in three scenes by Edward Ellis

"At the Grand Guignol", an eugenical playlet by Edward Ellis 1913

"Mrs. Jimmie Thompson" ("The Beautiful Liar"), a farce-comedy in three acts by Norman S. Rose and Edith Ellis

"Because I Love You", a play in one act by Edith Ellis, 1901; "Ben of Broken Bow," by Edith Ellis

"Cavalier of the Streets" by Edith Ellis. Based on Michial Arlens story in "These Charming People"

"The Charity Ball", an original comedy-drama for the screen by Edith Ellis

"Cleopatra", a play in one act by Edith Ellis; "Contrary Mary," by Edith Ellis; "Dialogue From Dickens," inscribed by Edith Ellis

"Drunkards Three", a playlet in two scenes by Edith Ellis

"Fancy", a comedy in four acts by Edith Ellis

"The Finished Story", a playlet by Edward Ellis; "The First Mrs. Fraser", a comedy in Three Acts by St. John G. Ervine

"Half a Lady", a comedy by Edith Ellis; "The Happiest Millionaire," by Kyle Chrichton; "The Judsons Entertain," by Edith Ellis

"If You Think It's So, It's So", synopsis of farce of same name by Edith Ellis and Oliver Erlan

"The Lady of Camelias", (a) by Edith Ellis. Based on the novel "La Dame aux Camillias' by Alexander Dumas

"The Lady of Camelias", (b) Edith Ellis

"The Lady of Paz", a dramatic comedy in two acts and six scenes by Edith Ellis. Based on the novel "These Generations" by Elinor Mordaunt (script, stage manager's notes, reviews)

"The Last Chapter", (a) a comedy of errors in an epilogue and three scenes by Edith and Edward Ellis. (script, postcard, reviews)

"The Last Chapter", (b) Edith and Edward Ellis

"The Man Higher Up" by Edith Ellis (synopsis only)

"Mary", scenario for film production based on the play "Any Night" by Edward Ellis. Produced at the Princess Theatre, New York

"The Masked Ball", a farcical comedy adapted from the French by Edith Ellis. (script, reviews, program, stage and costume notes)

"Mrs. Oliver etc.", an original comedy by Edith Ellis

No 13 Washington Square", a farcical-comedy in four acts by Edith Ellis. (scenario only) From Leroy Scott's novel of the same author

"Oliver Twist" by Edith Ellis. ("a sketch from...")

"Perkins' Predicament", a film comedy in two reels by Edith Ellis (synopsis only)

"The Phantom Burgler", a comedy-dramatic sketch in one act by William Cary Duncan and Edward Ellis

"The Quality of Mercy", a television drama in four scenes by Edith Ellis

"The Scarlet Gentleman", a play in one act by Edith Ellis

"The Song" by Edith Ellis. Based on the short story by May Edginton

"The Strength of the Weak" by Edith Ellis (synopsis only). Played under the title of "May Man" by Mabel Taliafaro, produced by Frederick Thompson from a novelette by Forrest Halsey

"Tin Wedding", a play in three acts by Edith Ellis. Based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Leech.

"The Untruth Tellers" a by Edward Ellis ("a sketch")

"Vespers", a play in four acts by Edith Ellis; "The Vinegar Tree," by Paul Osborn; "White Collar" by Edith Ellis

"The White Morning", a drama in four acts by Edith Ellis (scenario only) from Gertrude Atherton's novel of the same name

"The White Villa" by Edith Ellis. Based on "The Dangerous Age" by Karen Michaelis (including press reviews)

"Why Keep a Diary", a comedy (film version) by Edith Ellis. Adapted by Lazlo Fodor's "Lullaby"

"Without the Law", a mystery playlet in two scenes, by Edward Ellis

"Affairs of a Gentleman" by Edith and Edward Ellis (review only) 1934

"Contary Mary" by Edith Ellis (announcement only)

"The Great Meados" by Edith Ellis (forward only) 1930

"Imaginary Invalid" by Edith Ellis (playbills only) 1936

"The Moon and Sixpence" by Edith Ellis (program, reviews, William Somerset Maugham calling card)

"The Point of View" by Edith Ellis-Baker (announcement only) 1903

"White Collars" by Edith Ellis (postcards, playbills, reviews, see also oversize) 1925

Ellis family photographs

Ellis Baker portraits (see also oversize)

Ellis Baker in theatrical roles-photographs

Other actors, actresses-photographs, some from original Ellis troop

Reviews of books transcribed by Edith Ellis: "Open the Door", "Incarnation...", "The Astral Plane"

Notes from Ellis Baker re. Edith Ellis and her works. (Apply to several of the scripts in box 1)

"Edith Ellis "Credentials" (resume) circa 1920

Miscellany about Ellis family: papers written, articles about

Five Bijou Theater, St. Paul, Minneapolis ledgers (connection with Ellis Family is unknown. The theater may have started as a saloon in the late 1880s, evolved into an opera house and then movie theater by the 1930s) 1887-1950s

4 photographs: Isabel Barring (1), Ellis Baker (3)

1 program: "White Collars" 1925

"The Story of United Artists Product, 1937-1938" (picture book)

"RKO Radio Picture book" 1932-1933

"Leaders of the Motion Picture Industry" (magazine) 1938

"Greater Amusements: America's Foremost Motion Picture Regional Trade Journal" November 1938

"Columbia Mirror" (magazine) July 1935

29 Public relations/releases photographs, primarily from Universal Productions: unidentified (including 1920s x-rated), "Rawhide Rangers," "Border Wolves," "Cain," "The Pace That Kills"

Oversize

24 Movie posters (small size): "Rawhide Rangers" "The Fiddlin Buckaroo," "Border Wolves"

19 Movie posters (full size): "The Fiddlin Buckaroo," "Border Wolves," "Rawhide Rangers"