Theresa Helburn papers, 1903-1958.
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Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959
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Theresa Helburn was born in New York City in 1887, graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1908, and had an early career as a writer of essays, poetry, and plays, and as a theatre critic for The Nation. In 1919, she joined the Theatre Guild in New York City as a play reader. Within a few years she was co-administrative director with Lawrence Langner. As a writer, critic, director, and administrator, Theresa Helburn was a major force in the development of twentieth-century American theatre. She was m...
Theatre Guild
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Established in New York City in 1918, and initially administered by a board of managers, the Theatre Guild was for the greater part of its history co-directed by Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn, with Langner’s wife, Armina Marshall Langner, serving several administrative roles. Throughout the twentieth century the Theatre Guild was instrumental in improving the quality of American theatre, introducing audiences to new playwrights and forms of dramatic writing, stagecraft, and musical theatr...
Opdycke, John B. (John Baker), 1878-1956
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Author of over 20 books under the pen name Oliver Opdycke. From the description of John B. Opdycke letters [manuscript], 1911,1921. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 187303539 ...
