Papers, 1922-1998.

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Papers, 1922-1998.

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The collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed playbills, and writings. The writings consist of plays, poems, copywriting for the local radio station WTMA, guest columns for "The News and Courier", typed and handwritten manuscripts, music and other writings from friends.

3 linear ft.

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7649250

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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Colbert family.

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Footlight Players (Charleston, S.C.)

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Oldest community theater group in Charleston, South Carolina, organized in 1931. Most early plays were presented at the Academy of Music until 1936. In 1936 and 1937 plays were presented al fresco and at the Victory Theatre. In November 1937 the Footlight Players opened the reconstructed Dock Street Theatre (until May 1938 owned by the city and leased by the Carolina Art Association). The Footlight Players were affiliated with the Carolina Art Association from 1938 until...

Robinson, Patricia, 1923-

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Patricia Anne Colbert Robinson, 1922-1998 (the author earlier requested that her date of birth be listed as 1923), was a Charleston author, playwright, poet and actress. She and her husband Emmett E. Robinson (1914-1988), Director of the Footlight Players, were leaders in the Charleston theater for three decades. She wrote over fifteen plays. Most of them were produced at the Dock Street Theatre. Her comedies "Syllabub" and "Hiddydoddy" were followed by period pieces that included "The Burning T...

Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.)

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The Dock Street Theatre in downtown Charleston, S.C., was a product of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and takes the name of an historical playhouse that flourished in 18th-century Charleston; workers constructed a theatre space behind an earlier building, the Planter's Hotel (the oldest portion of which was consturcted in 1809) From the description of Dock Street Theatre collection, 1937-1947. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 741669400 ...

Alterman, Jennet Robinson,

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Robinson family.

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Duval, Margaret Louise

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Macomber, Daria

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