Rebecca Dial papers, 1922-1960.

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Rebecca Dial papers, 1922-1960.

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Rebecca Dial papers include 12 volumes, 1922-1960 and undated, consisting of scripts for dramatic theater, and radio and television programs; and 5 non-fiction volumes, 1942-1962, consisting of articles re speech fundamentals, and discussion of women in war work during World War II; and reports on a 1955 project in which Dial used drama-school exercises to treat behavioral problems in young children; and research papers re teaching of reading completed as course work at George Washington University. Some of Dial's scripts include farm women, blue-collar workers employed at textile milles, occupants of boarding houses, and African Americans, such as the script for "Pillar of Cloud," [ca. 1920s?] a "three-act drama with Negro spirituals" about Ku Klux Klan violence, for which Dial won an award from the Community Drama Guild of Washington, D.C.; other works include Undertow, which featured an all-female cast; several volumes include clippings, programs, and other promotional materials (see vols. 2, 16, etc.) which provide additional information about Dial and her work. Clippings claim that production of Dial's first play, Sand, encouraged the S.C. General Assembly to appropriate additional funds for maintenance of Columbia's Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School that taught adults reading and other skills. Other scripts include a parody of social life in the Capital city, called Washington Mirrors, which was presented at Congressional Club during a function honoring Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Warren Harding; a theatrical adaptation of the biography she wrote about her father, U.S. Sen. Nathaniel Dial; also includes a non-fiction published essay, "Speech Fundamentals," which appeared in the May 1942 issue of the South Carolina Speech Bulletin. Another essay by Dial appeared in the May 1944 edition of The Womans Press, a publication of the national YWCA; magazine featured articles on women's work during World War II, including contributions of YWCA, USO, and related organizations. Dial's article, "Women and Weeds: the Journal of a Land Army Girl," discusses Part I of her experience cultivating potatoes on a Maryland truck farm. Other features in this publication include Edna Yost's essay on return of disabled veterans, and article by Presbyterian minister Hazel Foster re status of women in the church.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Women's Land Army of America

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The Woman's Land Army of America was a civilian organization created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLAA were sometimes known as farmerettes. The WLAA was modeled on the British Women's Land Army....

Dial, Rebecca.

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Educator, writer, and dramatist; in 1931, director of the Rebecca Dial Studio Players at Institute of Musical Art (Washington, D.C.); taught at Clemson Opportunity School [ca. 1930s?]; later host of "Fun With Books" (1960), a children's television show broadcast on station WMAL (Washington, D.C.) author of radio scripts; daughter of Nathaniel Barksdale Dial (1862-1940), a native of Laurens, S.C., who served as U.S. Senator from South Carolina, 1919-1925. From the description of Rebec...

Yost, Edna, 1889-

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Dial, Nathaniel Barksdale, 1862-1940

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Lawyer, businessman, and U.S. Senator, from Laurens, S.C. From the description of Letters, 1936-1938. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40329083 From the description of Correspondence, 1915-1935; (bulk 1923-1935). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536357 ...

Foster, Hazel E. (Hazel Elora), b. 1885.

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Hazel Foster was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1885. She received her Ph. D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1932 and worked as a Presbyterian minister and professor of religion throughout the United States. She was active in a number of organizations including the League of Women Voters, the Quaker Fellowship, and the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as religious contacts chairman for the National Board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In this...