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040 _aDLC
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_dDLC
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_2lcmd
100 1 _aWebster, Margaret,
_d1905-1972.
245 0 0 _aMargaret Webster papers,
_f1837-1974
_g(bulk 1937-1970).
300 _a7,000
_fitems.
300 _a28
_fcontainers.
300 _a11
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 4 series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1837-1969; Series 2: Professional File, 1917-1971; Series 3: Speeches and Writings File, 1886-1974; and Series 4: Scrapbooks and Notebooks, 1929-1959.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
506 _aRestrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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).
520 8 _aPlaywrights 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.
544 _3Some photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aActress, theatrical producer, author, and lecturer.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150
600 1 0 _aAtkinson, Brooks,
_d1894-1984
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBrando, Marlon
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChekhov, Anton Pavlovich,
_d1860-1904.
600 1 0 _aCoward, Noel,
_d1899-1973
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCrawford, Cheryl,
_d1902-1986.
600 1 0 _aFontanne, Lynn
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGreene, Graham,
_d1904-1991
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aIbsen, Henrik,
_d1828-1906.
600 1 0 _aLe Gallienne, Eva,
_d1899-1991.
600 1 0 _aLe Gallienne, Eva,
_d1899-1991
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLunt, Alfred
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aO'Neill, Eugene,
_d1888-1953.
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616.
600 1 0 _aShaw, Bernard,
_d1856-1950.
600 1 0 _aShaw, Bernard,
_d1856-1950
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSlezak, Walter,
_d1902-1983
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aThorndike, Sybil,
_cDame,
_d1882-1976
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWebster, Benjamin,
_d1864-1947.
600 1 0 _aWhitty, May,
_cDame,
_d1865-1948.
600 1 0 _aWilder, Thornton,
_d1897-1975.
600 1 0 _aWilliams, Tennessee,
_d1911-1983.
600 1 0 _aWoollcott, Alexander,
_d1887-1943
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aWebster family.
600 3 0 _aWhitty family.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bDepartment of State.
610 2 0 _aActors' Equity Association.
610 2 0 _aAmerican Repertory Theater (New York, N.Y.)
610 2 0 _aANTA (Organization)
610 2 0 _aMargaret Webster Shakespeare Company.
650 0 _aApartheid.
650 0 _aBlacklisting of entertainers.
650 0 _aExperimental theater.
650 0 _aTheater.
650 0 _aTheater
_xProduction and direction.
650 0 _aTheater
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aTheater
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York.
650 0 _aTheater
_zSouth Africa.
650 0 _aTheater
_zUnited States.
656 7 _aActresses.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aAuthors.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aLecturers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aTheatrical producers.
_2itoamc
700 1 2 _aWebster, Margaret,
_d1905-1972.
_tDon't put your daughter on the stage.
_f1972.
700 1 2 _aWebster, Margaret,
_d1905-1972.
_tThe same only different; five generations of a great theatre family.
_f1969.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150.3
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