Collection:
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Pratt Institute Archives Photograph Collection
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Identifier:
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ar00187
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Source:
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Archives HE-06
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Date Original:
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n.d.
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Title:
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[Home Economics - National Posture Week]
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Description:
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Sally O'Neil, an actress, helps three young women from the Homemaker's Club of Pratt Institute rehearse for a posture-awareness play entitled, "Technique is Everything." The women are attempting to "reflect [the] way to sit while relaxing" [from reverse of photo]. Accompanying card states: "Caption for Photo #6: On left is Sally O'Neil, remembered in numerous Hollywood successes, who in between rehearsals of her Broadway show finds time to visit the Homemaker's Club of Pratt Institute, where rehearsals for National Posture Week, May 6th to 11th, are in progress on the posture play "Technique is Everything". to help inject humor into the scenes. She is shown going over the script with the students and telling them about the time she discovered why a line failed to draw a laugh, until she found what was wrong with her technique." Keywords: Women, Students, Actresses, Theater rehearsals, Universities and colleges.
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Subject:
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Pratt Institute -- History
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Subject:
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O'Neil, Sally, 1908-1968
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Subject:
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Posture -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York
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Coverage:
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United States
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Coverage:
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New York
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Coverage:
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Kings County
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Coverage:
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Brooklyn
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Format.Extent:
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1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
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Format.Medium:
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Photographic Prints
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Type:
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Image
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Contributing Institution:
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Pratt Institute
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