Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974

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Katharine Cornell was born on February 16, 1893, in Berlin, where her father, Peter Cortelyou Cornell, a distant relation of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, was studying medicine. Later in 1893, Peter Cornell and his wife Alice Gardner Plimpton returned to their native city, Buffalo, New York with their daughter, Katharine. Her father practiced medicine in Buffalo, for several years, but he found his time and interest increasingly taken up with the family hobby. His father, S. Douglas C...

Cammell, Charles Richard

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000277 ...

Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980

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American playwright, actor, director, producer, and author; b. Marcus Cook Connelly; d. 1980; winner of O. Henry Short Story Prize (1930) and Pulitzer Prize (1930); member of the Algonquin Round Table literary group. From the description of Marc Connelly collection, 1915-1980. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70974938 Playwright; full name is Marcus Cook Connelly. From the description of Reminiscences of Marc Connelly : oral history, 1959. (Columbia Un...

Cowl, Jane, 1884-1950

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Jane Cowl, actor and author, was born Grace Bailey in Boston on December 14, 1884. She began her career as an actor with David Belasco debuting in the Belasco Theatre on December 10, 1903 as an extra in SWEET KITTY BELAIRS, and quickly rose to starring roles with his company. In 1912, she scored a major success as Mary Turner in WITHIN THE LAW. She also appeared in the silent movie THE SPREADING DAWN in 1917. Jane Cowl later collaborated with Jane Murfin (Crisp) to ...

Chekhov, Michael, 1891-1955

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author and theatre practitioner. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov and a student of Konstantin Stanislavski. Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student. Although mainly a stage actor, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945...

Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966

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Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) était acteur, metteur en scène, scénographe, graveur et théoricien du théâtre. Il était le fils de l'architecte Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) et de l'actrice Ellen Alice Terry (1848-1928). À sa naissance il s'appelait Edward Godwin Terry ; son nom fut officiellement changé en Edward Wardell en 1878. Il adopta le nom de scène Gordon Craig en 1891, qui fut officialisé par la suite. Edward Gordon Craig was born in England on 16 January 18...

Copley, John.

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Clive, Colin, 1900-1937

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Cowan, Marjory.

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Cyon, François Lafitte.

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Cooper, G. Melville, 1896-1973.

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Cox, Lesley G.

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Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955

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French diplomat, poet and dramatist. From the description of L'homme et son désir, 1917. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80272306 The ballet L'homme et son desir, based on a text by Paul Claudel, was created for Nijinsky, with music by Darius Milhaud, choreography by Claudel, and sets and costumes by Audrey Parr. The ballet was composed in 1917 while Claudel was French minister to Brazil and Darius Milhaud served as his secretary. From the descri...

Clewe, J. F.

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Cameron, C. F

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Crocker, Bosworth, 1882-1946

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Constanduros, Mabel

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Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986

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Painter; Pacific Northwest; d. 1986. From the description of Kenneth Callahan papers, 1932-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81903297 Painter, muralist, writer and curator; Long Beach, Wash.; d. 1986. From the description of Kenneth Callahan interviews, 1982 Oct. 27-Dec. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007020 Painter; Long Beach, Wash. Died 1986. From the description of Kenneth Callahan interview, 1965 Mar. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929

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British social reformer and poet. From the description of Lecture notes, 1879-1880. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28106871 British social reformer and writer. From the description of A market place in Morocco, [19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702146085 English poet and philosopher. From the description of Letter, ca. 1910, to William Sloane Kennedy. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907549 ...

Commins, Saxe -1958

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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 ...

Cecil of Chelwood, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount, 1864-1958

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Curtiss, Charles Chauncey, 1847-1928.

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Cary, Lucian, 1886-1971

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Clough, M. Parnelia.

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Cromer, Rowland Thomas Baring, 2d Earl of, 1877-1953.

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Clift, A. F.

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Clarke, Dora Harrow.

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Cotsworth, Staats, 1908-1979

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Actor on radio, television and film, Staats Cotsworth was particularly active in 1940s radio, playing Casey, the Crime Photographer on the mystery-adventure series of that name. He was also an artist and illustrator. From the description of Staats Cotsworth drawings, 194-. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 726938582 ...

Cleverdon, Douglas, 1903-1987

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Douglas James Cleverdon, bookseller and radio producer, was born on Jan. 17, 1903 in Bristol, England, the elder son of Thomas Silcox Cleverdon, master wheelwright, and his wife, Jane Louisa James. He was educated at Bristol grammar school and Jesus College, Oxford, where as an undergraduate he published his first catalogue of books, thus establishing his reputation as a lover of fine printing and illustrated books. In 1926 Cleverdon opened a bookshop in Charlotte Street, Bristol, ...

Casson, John

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Cox, Philip (Phil)

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Creagh, James Vandeleur, 1883-1956.

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Daby-Hunter, Zillah.

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Church, Peggy Pond, 1903-1986

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Poet and writer. Born in Watrous, N.M. Died in 1987. From the description of Papers, 1922-1987. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 32816653 Peggy Pond Church, poet and writer, was born December 1, 1903 in Watrous, New Mexico. She grew up in a rural community and attended the only grade school on the Pajarito Plateau, The Los Alamos Ranch School, founded by her father Ashley Pond. She wrote the book, The House at Otowi Bridge,...

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973

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English composer, writer, actor, and producer. From the description of Signature on his visiting card, dated : [n.p., n.d.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899310 Badger's Green opened Jun. 12, 1930. From the description of Letter [1930] Jun. 20 [London] to Maurice Browne [London] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365183 English actor and author. From the description of The Birth of Hope : autograph manuscript signed ...

Van Volkenburg, Ellen.

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Director, actress, and puppeteer in Engliand and the United States, and co-founder of the Chicago Little Theatre with her husband, Maurice Browne. From the description of Letters, to her parents, 1913-1937. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34366255 ...

Cottie, Nic.

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Collins, Francis.

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Cone, Arthur Lambert.

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Conroy, Frank, 1890-1964

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Christian, Bertram

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Chamberlain, Neville, 1869-1940

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British Prime Minister, 1937-1940. From the description of Letter, 1938 Oct. 21. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58779055 Prime minister of Great Britain, 1937-1940. From the description of Neville Chamberlain declaration, 1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868084 British statesman. From the description of Printed invitation : n.p., 1838 July 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891845 From the descr...