Addition to the Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection

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Addition to the Playscripts and Promptbooks Collection

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Cocteau, Jean

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Antonin Artaud -- French poet, essayist, actor and director -- was the leading playwright of the 'Theatre of Cruelty.' From the description of Le moine de M.G. Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud [manuscript], ca. 1931 / Jean Cocteau. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 318989605 French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Berg, Gertrude, 1899-1966

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Mrs. Gertrude Berg was born in New York City on October 3, 1899, the daughter of Jacob and Diana Edelstein. She married Lewis Berg in 1918 and has 2 children, Cherney and Harriet. She first appeared in radio as actress-author-producer of the program The Goldbergs in 1929. She also wrote the program Kate Hopkins and was writer-producer of The House of Glass in 1935. Mrs. Berg was a collaborator on the film Make a Wish with Bobby Breen, and was Mollie in the film The Goldbergs . She appeared in th...

Hill, Errol.

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Boucicault, Dion.

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Elsner, Edward.

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Walcot, Charles W.

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Chayevsky, Paddy.

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Vachell, Horace Annesley, 1861–1955

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English novelist and playwright. A prolific and popular author, best remembered for The Hill, an idealization of school life at Harrow. Born at Sydenham, England, died at Bath. Lived in California in 1897. In 1883 he was a Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in England. From the description of Signed autograph, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 57620898 Author Horace Annesley Vachell was born in Sydenham, and educated at at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst....

Zangwill, Israel

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Sklar, George

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Fletcher, Constance.

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McGowan, Jack

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Stephens, Clement W.

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Cannot identify Clement W. Stephens with Clement Stephens, English songwriter, fl. 1880-1919. Frank Hiam was a magic trick and apparatus maker,. A port. of a man (Hiam?) appears under Hiam's name on the cover. From the description of Grand Punchinello burlesque extravaganza, in three acts, entitled : The yellow dwarf, or, The pretty princess, the magic spell, and the silver bee of the mystic dell / written by Clement W. Stephens, Esq. ; Frank Hiam, [188-?] (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

William Marchall

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Miller, Timothy

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Henry Baylis.

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Garfinkle, Louis

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Van Itallie, Jean-Claude, 1936-....

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Van Itallie is a Belgian-born American playwright and Harvard graduate (1958). From the description of Plays, [before 1969] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78544797 From the guide to the Plays, before 1969., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie was born in Brussels, Belgium on May 25, 1936. He emigrated to the United States at the age of four, grew up in Great Neck, Lon...

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Samuel Phelps

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Charles Kean

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White, J. Buckingham

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Rattigan, Terrence

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Epstein, Julius J., 1909-2000

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Julius J. Epstein, playwright. From the description of But, seriously: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122534826 ...

Frank Keenan

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James K. Gannon

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Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American author. From the guide to the Truman Capote ephemera Collection, 1949-1988., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Truman Capote (1924- ), American author. From the description of Truman Capote papers, 1939-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476609 Truman Capote is an American writer. From the description of Truman Capote fonds. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667848368...

Leonard Adelson

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Martin, Marty

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Thom, Robert

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Wilson, Frank

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Epstein, Philip G.

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Walker, Thomas M.

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Thomas, Augustus

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Hallie Flanagan

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Frederic Morton

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Weitzel, Edward

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Ustinov, Peter

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Yellen, Sherman

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Webb, Addison

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Hillard Elkins

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Wood, A. C. Fraser

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Trahern, Al

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W. J. Florence

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Elmslie, Kenward

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Miller, Joaquin

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Winslow, Herbert Hall, 1865-1930

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Writer and film director from 1914-1924. Noted for Mano Lescaut in 1914. From the description of H.H. Winslow letter, 1907 August 21. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 76968851 ...

John Rice

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Barnaby Conrad

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St. John, Mary C.

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Frank Maguire

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Dodsley, Robert?.

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Feely, Terence.

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Helen Faucit

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Dispenza, Joseph.

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Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Mayhew, Henry

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Erich Segal

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Rosemary Taylor

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Irwin Margulies

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