Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945

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Maurice Baring was born on April 27, 1874, as the eighth child and fifth son of Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke and Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel. Born in the West End of London, Baring attended Eton College and then Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1898, he joined the diplomatic service. In 1904, he became a journalist and reported on the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria for the Morning Post. Later, he was a correspondent in Russia and Istanbul (Constantinople). During World War ...

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Adams, J. Q. (Joseph Quincy), 1881-1946

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Baxter, Jane.

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Blin, Holbrook, 1872-1959.

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Blair, Mary A. I. Mitchell.

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Ackland, Rodney, 1908-1991

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Brady, William A.. 1863-1950

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Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931

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Arnold Bennett was a British novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, literary critic, journalist, and editor. From the description of Arnold Bennett collection of papers, 1881-1955 bulk (1894-1953). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615455 From the guide to the Arnold Bennett collection of papers, 1881-1955, 1894-1953, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Arnold Bennett, English no...

Benson, Frank R. (Frank Robert), 1858-1939

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English actor-manager. From the description of Letters signed (2) : Malvern, to W.A. Knight, 1904 May 20 and 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132651 ...

Burrell, John, 1910-1972

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Agate, May, 1892-

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Blagden, Minnie.

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Ashford, Kathleen.

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Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935

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George Pierce Baker was an American drama educator. He graduated from Harvard University in 1887 and from 1888 to 1924 was a faculty member in the English Department. While at Harvard, he played a key role in starting the Harvard Theatre Collection at Harvard University Library; he created the Harvard Dramatic Club; and he founded Workshop 47 to provide a forum for the performance of plays developed for his English 47 class. Baker was unable to convince Harvard to offer a degree in playwrighting...

Ampthill, Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, 2d Baron, 1869-1935.

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Anspacher, Louis Kaufman, 1878-1947

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Louis Kaufman Anspacher (1878-1947), Columbia University A.M., 1899; Ll.B., 1902, was an American author, playwright, director, and public lecturer. From the guide to the Lois Kaufman Anspacher Papers, 1897-1948., (Columbia Unviersity. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Louis Kaufman Anspacher was an American playwright and director. From the description of Louis Kaufman Anspacher collection of papers, 1912-1924. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 12...

Beal, John D., 1949-

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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 ...

Brighten, Hilda

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Bonstelle, Jessie

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Bohn, Adolph, 1887-

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Aynesworth, Allan, 1864-1959

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Born in 1887, Allan Aynesworth began his acting career in Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's 1887 production of The Red Lamp . In 1895 he played Algernon in the premiere production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest at the St James' Theatre, London. He went on to appear in many productions, mainly in London theatres, and in 1912 became an actor-manager at the New Theatre with Ready Money . The following year he took over the Garrick and in 1914, with Bronson Albery, the Crite...

Bryne, Muriel St. Clare, 1895-

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Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964

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Born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, of Richmond, Va., and "Mirador," Albemarle co., Va. Married Robert Gould Shaw, 1897; divorced, 1903; one son, Robert Gould. Married Waldorf Astor (1879-1952) of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, Eng., 1906; five children: William Waldorf (b. 1907), Nancy Phyllis Louise (b. 1909), Frances David Langhorne (b. 1912), Michael (b. 1916), and John Jacob (b. 1918). Elected first woman to Parliament, 1919, serving twenty-five years. From the description of Pa...

Bridgewater, Leslie, 1893-1975

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Armstrong, John, 1893-1973

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Allshorn, W. M.

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Bourdet, Édouard, 1887-1945

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Balcon, Michael, 1896-1977.

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Epithet: Knight; film producer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001027.0x0003cb Film producer. From the description of Reminiscences of Sir Michael Balcon : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451253 ...

Barrett, Mitzi.

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Boxall, George E.

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Brook, Clive, 1891-1974.

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Bradley, Dorothy

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Belfrage, Bruce.

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Armfield, Maxwell, b. 1862

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Biro, Golan.

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Anderson, Garland

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Bridges-Adams, W. (William), 1889-1965

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Bridges-Adams was an English actor, theatrical historian, director and designer. Sprague (1885-1991) was an American Shakespearean scholar. From the description of Letters to Arthur Colby Sprague, 1948-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81313928 From the guide to the Letters to Arthur Colby Sprague, 1948-1965., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) William Bridges-Adams was director of The New Shakespeare Compa...

Bondi, Beulah, 1892-1981

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Beulah Bondi (b. May 3, 1889, Chicago, IL–d. Jan. 11, 1981, Los Angeles, CA) was an actress of stage, film, and television. She was one of the first five women to be nominated for an Academy Award in the newly created category of "Best Supporting Actress" for her work in The Gorgeous Hussy. ...

Anderson, Celia Rousseau

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Bush, Jean M.

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Arliss, George, 1868-1946

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English actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 8 Bloomsbury Place, London, to Mr. Beringer, 1907 Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870220 George Arliss (1868-1946), English stage and screen actor, was best known for portraying historical figures such as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, Alexander Hamilton, Cardinal Richelieu, and French author Voltaire. Following Arliss' success with the stage version of Louis Napoleon Parker's DISRAELI (19...

Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915

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Poet and British naval officer. From the description of Rupert Brooke papers, 1913-1914. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456150 English poet. From the description of Sonnet : place not specified : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, 1914 June 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135815 Rupert Brooke was a British Georgian poet, a privileged, intelligent, handsome youth, and his verse has come to represent the prevailing mood of England prior to Wo...

Akins, Zoë (1886-1958).

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Zoë Akins (1886-1958) was a dramatist, novelist, poet and screenwriter. Born in Missouri, Akins wrote plays for the better part of two decades before she moved to California in 1928 and worked as a screenwriter under contract to Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She won the Pulitzer prize for her play, The old maid (1936), which she adapted from the story by Edith Wharton. From the description of Papers of Zoë Akins, 1907-1951. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical ...

Bispham, David Scull, 1857-1921

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American baritone. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to [Alfred?] Mapleson, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270501603 From the description of Letter signed, dated : London, [21 September 1898], to Mary Millais, 1898 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672758 From the description of Autograph letters signed (3), dated : New York, 1901, 1917, and 1918, to Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler (one is to Mr. Flagler), 1901 Jan. 6. (Unknow...

Ben-Ami, Jacob

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Jacob Ben-Ami was a twentieth century actor and director and prominent figure in American Yiddish theater. Ben-Ami was born on November 23, 1890, in Minsk, then a part of the Russian Empire. Before immigrating to the United States, he performed with Yiddish theater troupes throughout Russia and in London. In the United States, he worked with prominent figures on the Yiddish theater scene, including at Maurice Schwartz's Irving Place Theatre. He was a leading figure in th...

Arent, Arthur

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American playwright and television and screenwriter; b. 1904; d. 1972. From the description of Arthur Arent collection, 1895-1968. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969637 ...

Barry, Griffin, 1884-1957

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Ainley, Henry, 1879-1945

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English actor-manager. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : 61 Princes Gardens, West Acton, to Denys Blakelock, 1943 Aug. 5, 1944 Aug. 14, and 1945 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870199 British actor-manager. From the description of Letter, 1904[?]. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31187635 ...

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 ...

Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954

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American poet. From the description of Correspondence, 1948. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13435999 Bodenheim was an American novelist and poet of the 1920s and 1930s. Late in his life he lived as a panhandler in Greenwich Village, New York. In 1954 he was murdered together with this third wife Ruth Fagin. From the description of [Letter] 1930 Feb. 8, Long Island City, N.Y. [to] Sweet Cousin [Julie Bensdorf] / Maxwell. (Smith College). WorldCat reco...

Ashcroft, Peggy, Dame

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Arbach, Vera.

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Armour, J. Ogden (Jonathan Ogden), 1863-1927

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Bohlman, Edgar Lemoine, 1902-

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Buckley, Doris

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Blum, Jerome S., 1884-1956

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Berkeley-Hill, Samuel T.

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Ashmole, Bernard, 1894-1988

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Baylis, Lilian, 1874-1937

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Buckmaster, John Charles

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Epithet: father of Stanley Owen Buckmaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000875.0x00008a ...

Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951

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Bjorkman (1866-1951) was a Swedish-American literary critic, translator, newspaperman, and author, and, from 1925, a resident of North Carolina. From the description of Edwin Björkman papers, 1855-1954 (bulk 1907-1954) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25255408 Bjorkman's translations of Strindberg's Creditors, The Pariah, and The Stronger, were produced by the Chicago Little Theatre in 1913. From the description of Letters, to [Maurice] Browne, 1912. (Universit...

Anglin, Margaret, 1876-1958

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Canadian actress. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [Wilmington, 9 March 1915], and [New York, n.d.], to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1915, 9 March. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270680597 Margaret Anglin (1876-1958) was a Canadian-born actress, director, and producer who was considered one of the finest actresses of her day. Anglin performed on Broadway and around the country from 1889 to 1936. Like many of Broadway's stars at the beginn...

Bell, Robert R. (Robert Roy), 1945-

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Robert Bell was born in Ireland of Scottish ancestry. He came to New York in 1847. His sons ran R. W. Bell & Co. and Bell Brothers of Buffalo, N.Y. Robert's farm, Pear Valley" had 1500 trees and 46 varieties of fruits. He won many awards for farm produce and animals. He was one of the founders of the United Presbyterian Church. From the description of Ledger. (Rochester Museum & Science Center). WorldCat record id: 779476764 Gray Mansion, the subject of the original ...

Birch, Frank, 1889-1956

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Brandon-Thomas, Amy Marguerite, 1890-1974.

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Anderson, Judith, 1897-1992

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Actress. From the description of Reminiscences of Judith Anderson: oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122632281 ...

Barton, Lionel H.

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Bojer, Johan, 1872-1959

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Barnes, Cyril B.

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Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar, 1896-1986

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Dorothy Dunbar Bromley (1897-1986), journalist and writer, was also known as Dorothy Dunbar Walker and used the pen name Stephen Ewing. She was born on a farm near Ottawa, Illinois, daughter of Helen Ewing Dunbar and Charles E. Dunbar, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1918. During her college years she served as a member of the Signal Corps. She moved to New York City, where she became a journalist; she did publicity and editorial work for Henry Holt and Company (1921-1...

Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942

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Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987

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Chicago literary critic and author. From the description of Fanny Butcher papers 1830-1984, bulk 1910-1984. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 184986446 ...

Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946

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Claude Fayette Bragdon, architect, stage designer, author, and poet, was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on August 1, 1866. In 1891 he moved to Rochester, N.Y., and in 1923 he settled in New York City until his death in 1946. His architectural designs include Rochester's New York Central Railroad Station and the Rochester First Universalist Church. His books include THE GOLDEN PERSON IN THE HEART (poems, 1898), ARCHITECTURE AND DEMOCRACY (1918), MERELEY PLAYERS (1929), and MORE LOVES THAN ONE (autobiogra...

Armstrong, William, 1882-1952

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Epithet: actor and director British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000138 ...

Baxter, Arthur Beverley, 1891-

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Biddle, Edmund Randolph.

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Arthur, George, Sir, 1860-1946

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pretoria, to Mary Frances Ronalds, 1900 Nov. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270127105 ...

Allen, John, Cambridge student.

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Arntzenius, Perone.

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Boughton, Rutland, 1878-1960

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000392 Director of the Glastonbury Festival Players and later of the Bristol Folk Festival School. From the description of Letters : Glastonbury, Tatsfield, Newent, and Bristol, to Laurence Housman, 1921-1935. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25334604 ...

Brutton, H. L.

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Adam, Ronald, 1896-1979

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Babcock, Conrad Stanton, 1904-

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Blau, Béla, d. 1940.

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Aiken-Smith, Pearle.

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Buchanah, Andrew, 1897-

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Agate, James, 1877-1947

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Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, Preben Ferdinand, greve, b. 1872.

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Bellerby, Frances, 1899-1975

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Mary Eirene Frances Bellerby (1899-1975), poet (nee Parker), was born in Bristol on 29 August 1899. Her father, F. Talbot Parker, was a clergyman with a devotion to 'the poor'; her mother, Marion Eirene Thomas, a trained nurse. The sole brother of Frances volunteered and was killed in the First World War. From the age of twenty, she worked as a teacher, first at a school and later as a private tutor to the Cecil Fry family, and at about the same time began writing articles for 'The ...

Anand, Mulk Raj, 1905-2004

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Mulk Raj Anand was a popular and prolific Indian novelist known for his realistic portrayal of India's poor. While living in London, he became politically active in India's independence movement, and wrote numerous tracts about Indian art and culture. From the description of Mulk Raj Anand letter and photographs, ca. 1950? (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52281215 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : P...

Arntzenius, Constance.

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McPharlin, Marjorie Batchelder, 1903-1997

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Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin was born in Winnetka, Ill. on Nov. 15, 1903. In 1922, she entered the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and received a diploma in teacher training in 1925. She received her M.A. in 1934 and her Ph. D. in 1942 from Ohio State University. She taught art at Florida State University, Ohio State University, and the University of New Mexico. Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin first became interested in puppetry in 1928. She spent her life working as a producer, writer, a...

Bing, Al.

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