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Carola Bell Williams, actress and playwright, was born in 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her A.B. (1921) from Flora Mather College of Western Reserve University and did graduate work at Radcliffe College (1921-1923) under George Pierce Baker. Her career as a monologuist (both actress and author) began in the 1940s. She participated in Camps Farthest Out, an interdenominational, interracial Christian movement. This collection consists of plays, monologues, publicity, an audiotape, motion picture, and photographs of Carola Bell Williams. Her early monologues portrayed the lives of notable American women and her later work concentrated on devotional subjects.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Williams, Carola Bell

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Carola Bell Williams, actress and monologue writer, was born in 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended local schools. After her father's death in 1913, her mother took her to Europe where she studied drama at a French boarding school in Munich. Her shock at seeing war preparations and troop movements was later expressed in the monologue "Good-Bye John". CBW received her A.B. (1921) from Flora Mather College of Western Reserve University and did graduate work at Radcliffe ...

Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935

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George Pierce Baker was an American drama educator. He graduated from Harvard University in 1887 and from 1888 to 1924 was a faculty member in the English Department. While at Harvard, he played a key role in starting the Harvard Theatre Collection at Harvard University Library; he created the Harvard Dramatic Club; and he founded Workshop 47 to provide a forum for the performance of plays developed for his English 47 class. Baker was unable to convince Harvard to offer a degree in playwrighting...