Charlotte Lee Barrows was born Jan. 3, 1872; attended Iowa Agricultural College; BL, Cornell Univ., 1894, attended Harvard Univ. (1913-15), winning the John Craig prize in 1915; married John C. Chorpenning; taught school in Denver (1901-04) and English in MN (1904-13, 1915-1920s); dramatic director, Recreation Training School, Hull House, Chicago; member of Speech dept., Northwestern Univ.; head of the Children's Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Art Institute of Chicago, 1931-52; worked with U.S.O. during World War II; co-founder, Children's World theatre in late 1940s; known for producing and adapting fairy tales and children's literary classics for plays; adaptations include Jack and the beanstalk, Rumpelstiltskin, The return of Rip Van Winkle, and Hans Brinker and the silver skates; she died in Jan. 1955.
From the description of A Collection of material about Charlotte Chorpenning, 1959. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40104110
