Virginia Cummings Little Theatre Players certificate

Collection — Box: Communal Collections 62, Placement: 09

Identifier: MSA 349

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two items: one certificate inducting student, Virginia Cummings, into the Little Theatre Players group on May 30, 1927 and a 1929 Purdue Exponent article (photocopy) of a Little Theatre Players production announcement.

Dates

Creation: 05/30/1927; 1929

Creator

Grace, Richard and Connie (Donor, Person)

Historical and Biographical Information

The Little Theatre Players formed in 1917 as a Purdue Organization. They merged with the Harlekin Club in 1930 to form the Harlekin Players, which disbanded two years later, in 1932.

Virginia Cummings, a native of Milwaukee, WI, graduated from Purdue University in 1929. Besides being a member of the Little Theatre Players, she was active in the French Club, the Purdue Girls' Club, the Women's Atlhetic Association, the Y. W. C. A., Class Soccer 2, and Dad's Day Play 2.

More on the history of Purdue Theatre can be found on the departmental website: https://cla.purdue.edu/theatre/about/history/index.html

Debris. West Lafayette, Indiana: Senior Class of Purdue University, 1929.