Cloyd Head papers, 1895-1968.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.)

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Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A major part of the Chicago theatre scene, it is the city's oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization. Part of its present theater complex occupies the landmark Harris and Selwyn Theaters property. The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willia...

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942

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Thomas Wood Stevens was an artist, teacher, author, and theater director. He served has head of the Illustration Department at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903-1911; he was cofounder of Blue Sky Press, 1899-1907; he served as head of the Drama Department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1913-1925; then at the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, 1925- 1930; he was the director of various university and community theaters, and of the Globe Theatre Shakespearean productions perfo...

Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944

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Chicago poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor. Born Eunice Strong Hammond in Chicago in 1884, Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in France, 1917-1918, and for over twenty-five years she was on the staff of Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Although Tietjens wrote poetry, a novel, and memoirs, her reputation rests mainly on her influence as a friend, critic, and editor of such early twnetieth centu...

Head, Cloyd

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Chicago playwright, theatrical director and business manager of the Goodman Theatre. From the description of Cloyd Head papers, 1895-1968. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 190996285 ...

Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936

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Poet and founding editor of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. From the description of Papers, 1873-1944 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 56101856 American editor, critic, and poet. Harriet Monroe was born in Chicago in 1860, and she remained identified all her life with the city. After gaining some local recognition as a poet, a newspaper critic and a lecturer on poetry, Monroe's literary reputation was based on her concep...

Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980

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Art historian and writer; b. 1886; d. 1980. From the description of Sheldon Cheney papers, 1915-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333445 ...

Head, Cloyd S.

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Chicago Little Theatre.

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Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982

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Raymond Jonson (1891-1982) was an American modernist painter and teacher. As a young man (1912 to 1917) he was the lighting, stage set, costume and graphics designer for the Chicago Little Theatre, America's first experimental theater, and later founded the Transcendental Painting Group (1938). He organized the Modern Wing at the Museum of New Mexico and taught art classes at his Atalaya Art School and at the University of New Mexico, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1954. In 1950 he establishe...

Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...

Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954

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American poet. From the description of Correspondence, 1948. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13435999 Bodenheim was an American novelist and poet of the 1920s and 1930s. Late in his life he lived as a panhandler in Greenwich Village, New York. In 1954 he was murdered together with this third wife Ruth Fagin. From the description of [Letter] 1930 Feb. 8, Long Island City, N.Y. [to] Sweet Cousin [Julie Bensdorf] / Maxwell. (Smith College). WorldCat reco...

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955

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Produced May 18, 1942. From the description of Tomorrow's sun; a play, 1942. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365838 British actor, director, producer, and co-founder of the Chicago Little Theatre. From the description of Morley's First Sketch of English Literature papers, 1909 and 1936. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34491672 ...

Art Institute of Chicago.

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University of Miami. Opera

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Year Book Medical Publishers

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