Letter, Monaghan, Ireland, to Walter H. Walters, Dept. of Theatre Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1962 September 29.

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Letter, Monaghan, Ireland, to Walter H. Walters, Dept. of Theatre Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1962 September 29.

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Tyrone Guthrie declines Walters' invitation to become a distinguished visiting professor of theatre arts at Pennsylvania State University because he was developing the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and expected to be occupied with that for three years.

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Guthrie, Tyrone, Sir, 1900-1971

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The idea of the theater began in 1959 during a series of conversations among Tyrone Guthrie and two colleagues -- Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler -- who were disenchanted with Broadway. They wanted to create a theater with a resident acting company that would perform the classics. In Minneapolis/St. Paul a steering committee was formed to bring theater to the Twin Cities. The T.B. Walker Foundation donated the land behind the Walker Art Center for a building and contributed $400,000 fo...

Walters, Walter H.

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Walter H. Walters was born on December 19, 1917 in Troy, Alabama, and graduated from Troy State University in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science degree in education. He completed a master's degree in English literature in 1947 at the University of Wisconsin, a master's in fine arts in drama in 1949, and a Ph.D. in literature and drama in 1950 at Western Reserve University. After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies, he joined Penn State's faculty in 1950 as an instructor in theater art...