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Waiters to members, the Carlton Club.
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2 leaves
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John Herbert was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. Born and raised in Toronto, Herbert attended Dora Mavor Moore's New Play Society and the National Ballet School of Canada. In 1960 Herbert founded the Garret Theatre with his sister Nana Brundage, and in 1964 wrote his most famous work, Fortune and Men's Eyes, which was in part inspired by his arrest for dressing as a woman and subsequent time spent in a youth reformatory. It was first staged in 1967 in New York and remained his most popular play. Herbert died in 2001.
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File contains one set of Valentine's day poems written by John Herbert in 1953 for a Carlton Club Valentine's day event, 2 leaves (original) of a manuscript. Includes author's note on the envelope: "Box D: John Herbert archives at Porter Library, Univ. of Waterloo. Original drafts. D23: 2 Valentine poems of light verse for table favours (printed later) at Carlton Club party in February, 1953. Note: J.H. worked as a full-time waiter at the Carlton Badminton and Squash Club on Hayden St. (at Church St.) in Toronto, 1952 and 1953 (until leaving in '53 to join a travelling show 'Paris After Midnight' as a dancer). Ivan Peterson, Carlton's manager, a man from Denmark, discovered Herbert's artistic bent (drawing and writing) and paid J.H. extra to decorate dances at the Carlton Club and to arrange entertainment for the club's parties."