Typed letter signed from Langston Hughes, Hollywood, California, to Dan Burley [manuscript], 1940 November 26.

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Typed letter signed from Langston Hughes, Hollywood, California, to Dan Burley [manuscript], 1940 November 26.

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Hughes writes that Burley's "swell jive Hamlet was well received." He also mentions different staging for a possible production of Othello and music for the show by Otis Renee, Elliott Carpenter and Will Grant Still. On letterhead of the Hollywood Theatre Alliance.

1 leaf ; 28 x 22 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Carpenter, Elliot 1894-1961

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Still, William Grant, 1895-1978

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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