1930s FAIRFAX WALKUP 2 signed PASADENA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE letter + diploma

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[1930s FAIRFAX WALKUP, 2 SIGNED ITEMS; PASADENA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE] FAIRFAX WALKUP, 2 signed items connected to the Pasadena Community Playhouse, (1) 1935 letter
with Pasadena Community Playhouse letterhead to an applicant requesting “credentials” from schools she has attended and letters of recommendation”, hand-signed as Director, School of the Theatre, with enveloped with 1935 postmark, Pasadena Community Playhouse Association return address logo, and typsecript recipient address in Connecticut;
(2) 5-1/8” x 8-1/2” diploma
to graduating student noting she has been accepted as a “Post Graduate in the General Course, School of the Theatre,” hand-signed above typescript “Approved” above facsimile signature in brown ink (color of text and also paper) of Gilmor Brown (actor, director) as General Manager, general Manager, and Chas. [Charles] F. Prickett, Producing Director, undated/but ca. 1938 when the named student graduated as indicated by other Pasadena Community Playhouse memorabilia purchased at an estate sale, affixed to 9”x 11-1/2” disbound album leaf; signature authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee;
RARE
, Fairfax Walkup signatures are rare outside of institutional holdings, one only found for sale (5/15/21);
FAIRFAX PROUDFIT WALKUP:
1887-1976, “Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup was a professor in the theater department at California State University, Fullerton. She was a former Director and Dean of Instruction of the Pasadena Playhouse. Her expertise was in costume and set design and she also was a playwright. Originally from a prominent family in Tennessee she attended Vassar College class of 1908. After World War I she and her son came to California.” (Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup Theatre Collection, Online Archive of California/OAC)
/// CONDITION:
both well-preserved, negligible wear.
keywords: theater memorabilia, California student theater, costume designer autograph