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Box 09, LLB, 3, SCA Main Stacks, Standard Shelf [Aisle: 13, Section: 8, Shelf: 3], MS--00971, Paul Lavern Cummings Papers

Archival objects in this container:

  1. Vocal track of "Here's That Rainy Day", approximately 1966 to 1968
  2. Paul Cummings dialog rehearsals [1968] (side A); Lavern Cummings [1966] sings "Almost in Your Arms;" "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams;" "That Rainy Day is Here;" and "Love Me With All Your Heart;" followed by unintelligible recording of televised programs (side B), approximately 1966 to 1968
  3. Live performance at Finocchio's and an interview with an unidentified female impersonator on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, approximately 1970 to 1979
  4. Audio cassette of (side A) Paul Cummings reciting line cues from the role of Doris in the stage play, Same Time Next Year [1975; film, 1978]; (side B) Paul Cummings reciting the monologue from the stage play, I Never Sang for My Father [1968; film 1970], approximately 1975 to 1979
  5. Audio cassette of (side A) random song rehearsals and (side B) Rodgers and Hart songs, approximately 1970 to 1979
  6. Audio cassette of (side A) Paul Lavern Cummings reciting scenes and line cues as George with Tallulah Bankhead as Hedda Gabler; (side B) unidentified music, approximately 1980 to 1982
  7. Audio cassette of (side A) a recording of the CO*STAR, The Record Acting Game release of Tallulah Bankhead as Hedda Gabler, including Bankhead's introduction, narrative, and Gabler's side of a scene; (side B) Paul Lavern Cummings' acting practice, approximately 1980 to 1982
  8. Audio cassette of Lavern Cummings' live performance at Finocchio's in San Francisco, California, approximately 1970 to 1979
  9. Audio cassette of (side A) recorded telephone message from Jim Vereiro [uncertain spelling] of Las Vegas' Dennis Bono Show in response to Paul Lavern Cummings' inquiry about appearing on the show; unidentified music; a demo recording of Paul Lavern Cummings/Lavern Cummings provided to the Dennis Bono Show; (side B) Paul Cumming's monologue titled, "On Memory.", approximately 2000 to 2017
  10. Envelope of notes, labels, and identifications from Paul Lavern Cummings' audiovisual recordings, correlated by number, approximately 1968 to 2017