Marjorie Morton Collection of Material about Charlotte Chorpenning, 1959

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Marjorie Morton Collection of Material about Charlotte Chorpenning, 1959

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Charlotte Chorpenning (Charlotte Barrows, 1872-1955) co-founded the Children's World theatre (late 1940s). The theatre was known for producing and adapting fairy tales and children's literary classics for plays. The collection consists of correspondence and notes assembled by Marjorie Morton, a student in the UCLA Theater Arts Department, for a thesis on Charlotte Chorpenning and her work with children's theater.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Chorpenning, Charlotte B. (Charlotte Barrows)

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Charlotte Barrows Chorpenning, theatre for young audiences playwright, stage director, researcher and educator was born in 1872. She was educated at Iowa Agricultural College and Cornell University, from which she received a Bachelor of Letters degree in 1894. Following graduation she taught high school in Springfield, Ohio and Denver, Colorado and English at the Normal School in Winona, Minnesota. After writing her first play, Between the Lines in 1912, Chorpenning was ...

Morton, Marjorie

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Biography Charlotte Lee Barrows was born January 3, 1872; attended Iowa Agricultural College; BL, Cornell University, 1894, attended Harvard University (1913-15), winning the John Craig prize in 1915; married John C. Chorpenning; taught school in Denver (1901-04) and English in Minnesota (1904-13, 1915-1920s); dramatic director, Recreation Training School, Hull House, Chicago; member of Speech department, Northwestern University; head of the ...