Audrey Wood Papers 1863, 1900-1984, n.d.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993

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Helen Hayes Brown was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1900. Her parents were Frank and Catherine “Essie” Brown. With her mother’s encouragement, Hayes made her stage debut at the age of five and began performing both in amateur productions as well as the stock company, The Columbia Players. While performing in a recital for Miss Minnie Hawke’s School of Dance, Hayes was spotted by Lew Fields. Fields, half of the Weber and Fields comedy team, as well as a producer, recognized Hayes’s tale...

Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986

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Jacob Koppel Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Javits served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York's 21st congressional district from 1947 to 1954, as the 58th Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1957 until 1981. After graduating from New York University School of Law, he established a law practice in New York City. During World War II, he serv...

Schmidt, Lars, 1917-

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Gallantz, George G.

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Hazen, Joseph P.

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Leavy, Morton L.

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Selznick, Irene Mayer, 1907-1990

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American theatrical producer, photographer, and writer; daughter of Louis B. Mayer; married David O. Selznick. From the description of Irene Mayer Selznick collection, 1930-1990. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968716 ...

Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-1993

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Cronyn, Hume.

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Warburg, Fredric J.

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Smith, Lawrence.

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Watson, Graham.

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Murray, Natalia Danesi.

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Inge, William.

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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963

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This collection covers the years of William Carlos Williams's medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a year of service at a New York City hospital, a semester of medical study in Leipzig, and the period when he was setting up his medical practice and courting his future wife, Florence Herman, in his home town of Rutherford, N.J. During this time, his younger brother Edgar went from engineering and architectural studies at M.I.T. to further study of architecture at the American Academ...

MacGregor, Robert.

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Colton, Edward E.

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Williams, Cornelius Coffin.

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Feldman, Charles K., 1904-1968

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Curtis Brown Ltd.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Incorporated the literary agencies of Willis Kingsley Wing and Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., and others, and was closely associated with the English agencies of Curtis Brown Ltd. (London) and A.P. Watt & Son. From the guide to the Curtis Brown, Ltd. Records, 1914-2006., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co...

Wood, Audrey, 1905-

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American theatrical agent. From the description of Audrey Wood Papers, 1863-1984 (bulk 1900-1984). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122472700 Audrey Wood was born February 28, 1905, in New York City to William Wood, a theatre manager, and Ida Gaubatz. Audrey grew up with constant exposure to the art and business of vaudeville and theatre through her father's work. She read and selected plays for ...

Singer, Louis J.

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Mielziner, Jo, 1901-1976

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Actor, scene designer, and lighting designer and innovator; d. 1976. From the description of Jo Mielziner collection, [193-]-[197-]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70923011 Donald Mitchell Oenslager, an American stage designer and professor, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 7 March 1902. Oenslager began his career in the theater as an actor, working at the Greenwich Village Theatre and the Provincetown Playhouse during the early 1920s. He became interested i...

Heyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961

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Playwright and novelist; b. Dorothy Hartzell Kuhns; married DuBose Heyward. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1850]-1976 (bulk 1918-1961). (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70970892 Dorothy Hartzell Kuhns Heyward (1890-1961) was the wife of writer DuBose Heyward (1885-1940). From the description of Letter, [1931 Mar. 2], Dawn Hill, Hendersonville, N.C., to Mrs. E.C. Plimpton, Newton Center, Mass. (University of South Carolina). World...

Crawford, Cheryl.

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Kazan, Elia.

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Tajima, Hiroshi.

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Dramatist Play Services (New York, N. Y.).

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Beaumont, Hugh, 1908-1976

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Logan, Joshua.

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Dramatist Guild.

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Williams, Dakin.

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Liebling, William.

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Gottlieb, Morton.

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Edwina Dakin Williams ?

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