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Barnett Owen papers regarding Ruth Draper

Title
  1. Barnett Owen papers regarding Ruth Draper, 1905-1956.
Supplementary content
  1. Finding Aid
Author
  1. Owen, Barnett.

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Additional authors
  1. Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956.
Description
  1. .5 lf (1 box).
Summary
  1. The Barnett Owen papers devoted to Ruth Draper are divided into correspondence, typescripts of monologues in English and French, and other documents related to Ruth Draper's career.
Subject
  1. Theater > United States
  2. Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956
  3. Owen, Barnett
  4. Correspondence
  5. One-person shows (Performing arts)
  6. Monologues
  7. Scripts
Genre/Form
  1. Scripts.
  2. Correspondence.
Call number
  1. *T-Mss 1985-005
Access (note)
  1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Source (note)
  1. Owen, Barnett
Biography (note)
  1. Ruth Draper was a stage performer who found her greatest success delivering monologues of her own devising.
Indexes/finding aids (note)
  1. Finding aid in repository and on Internet.
Processing action (note)
  1. Cataloged
Author
  1. Owen, Barnett.
Title
  1. Barnett Owen papers regarding Ruth Draper, 1905-1956.
Restricted access
  1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Biography
  1. Ruth Draper was a stage performer who found her greatest success delivering monologues of her own devising. Born in New York City in 1884, Draper began her career writing sketches about people she knew or observed and performing them at parties, until composer Ignace Jan Paderewski encouraged her to take her talent to the stage. Her only appearance in a full-length play was as the maid in A LADY'S NAME at New York's Maxine Elliott Theatre in May 1916. The following year she made her debut as a monologist. The most successful sketch in her first performance was THE ACTRESS, which was the only piece she wrote herself. This gave her the encouragement to write and perform her own sketches, which she did to worldwide acclaim, on stage and on numerous records, until her final performance December 26, 1956. Ruth Draper died four days later at the age of 72.
Indexes
  1. Finding aid in repository and on Internet.
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  1. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material
  2. Finding Aid
Added author
  1. Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956.
Research call number
  1. *T-Mss 1985-005
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