A Collection of material about Charlotte Chorpenning, 1959.

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A Collection of material about Charlotte Chorpenning, 1959.

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.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7418971

University of California, Los Angeles

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Morton, Marjorie.

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Charlotte Lee Barrows was born Jan. 3, 1872; attended Iowa Agricultural College; BL, Cornell Univ., 1894, attended Harvard Univ. (1913-15), winning the John Craig prize in 1915; married John C. Chorpenning; taught school in Denver (1901-04) and English in MN (1904-13, 1915-1920s); dramatic director, Recreation Training School, Hull House, Chicago; member of Speech dept., Northwestern Univ.; head of the Children's Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Art Institute of Chicago, 1931-52; worked with U.S.O. dur...

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 ...