Webster, Margaret 1905-1972 creator mixed material monographic eng 7,000 28 11 Correspondence, lectures, articles, prompt copies of plays and operas, musical scores, set and staging diagrams, research materials, family papers, scrapbooks of clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers consisting primarily of material used by Webster in compiling two family biographies and reflecting her career in American theater. Documents her involvement with Eva Le Gallienne and Cheryl Crawford in the American Repertory Theater in New York, N.Y., and her interest in experimental theater with Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company (also known as Marweb Productions). Also documents Webster's service as a U.S. State Dept. specialist in South Africa. Family papers relate chiefly to the professional careers of her parents, Benjamin Webster and Dame May Whitty, on the British stage, and include genealogical material for the Webster and Whitty families. Subjects include theater in Great Britain, South Africa, and the United States; the Actors' Equity Association; ANTA (American National Theatre and Academy; apartheid; and blacklisting. Includes drafts and related material for Webster's family biographies, The Same Only Different; Five Generations of a Great Theatre Family (1969) and Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage (1972), and notes for her technical work Shakespeare without Tears (1942). Playwrights represented include Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams. Correspondents include Brooks Atkinson, Marlon Brando, Noel Coward, Lynn Fontanne, Graham Greene, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, Bernard Shaw, Walter Slezak, Dame Sybil Thorndike, and Alexander Woollcott. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Actress, theatrical producer, author, and lecturer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150 Atkinson, Brooks 1894-1984 Correspondence Brando, Marlon Correspondence Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904 Coward, Noel 1899-1973 Correspondence Crawford, Cheryl 1902-1986 Fontanne, Lynn Correspondence Greene, Graham 1904-1991 Correspondence Ibsen, Henrik 1828-1906 Le Gallienne, Eva 1899-1991 Le Gallienne, Eva 1899-1991 Correspondence Lunt, Alfred Correspondence O'Neill, Eugene 1888-1953 Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 Correspondence Slezak, Walter 1902-1983 Correspondence Dame Thorndike, Sybil 1882-1976 Correspondence Webster, Benjamin 1864-1947 Dame Whitty, May 1865-1948 Wilder, Thornton 1897-1975 Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983 Woollcott, Alexander 1887-1943 Correspondence Webster family Whitty family United States. Department of State. Actors' Equity Association. American Repertory Theater (New York, N.Y.) ANTA (Organization) Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company. Apartheid Blacklisting of entertainers Experimental theater Theater Theater Production and direction Theater Great Britain Theater New York (State) New York Theater South Africa Theater United States Actresses Authors Lecturers Theatrical producers Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972 Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972 mm 75052142 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 751124 20260227111616.0 mm 75052142