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Warner Watson letter to Virgil L. Baker, March 10, 1950
No full textA letter addressing the development of the prospective musical for the University of Arkansas' Fine Arts Center opening.Warner Watson, of the American National Theatre and Academy, recognized the potential of developing an Arkansas centered musical based on Charles Morrow Wilson's work for attracting national attention. Virgil Baker was himself an author, playwright, and director. He taught and served as the department head in the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art at the University of Arkansas
"I my own professor": Ashton-Warner as New Zealand educational theorist, 1940-60.
No full textThe invitation to contribute to this volume addressed me as a New Zealander who had written about how Sylvia Ashton-Warner's fantasies, theories, imagery, and life-history narratives threaded their way through my own. I had written of my youthful encounters with her work in Educating Feminists (Middleton 1993), in which I looked back on reading Spinster in 1960 at age thirteen and reflected on my teenage dreams of life as an artist and beatnik in Parisian cafes and garrets: confined to an Edwardian boarding school hostel in a provincial New Zealand town, I had plotted my escape to what Ashton-Warner described in Myself as "some bohemian studio on the Left Bank in Paris or over a bowl of wine in Italy, me all sophisticated and that, with dozens of lovers, paint everywhere and love and communion and sympathy and all that" (Myself, 212). When, in the early 1970s, I began secondary school teaching and read Teacher, that book built bridges between the frightening urgency of classroom survival, the enticing theories but alien classrooms described by American deschoolers and free-schoolers, and "what I believed myself to be when a girl on the long long road to school, a vagabond and an artist" (I Passed This Way, 307). As a young teacher I, too, had poured my impassioned soul into writing journals and poetry, painting, and playing the piano. Like Ashton-Warner, I had hoped that artistic self-expression could keep the mad woman in my attic at bay, for "asylums are full of artists who failed to say the things they must and famous tombs are full of those who did" (Incense to Idols, 169)
Interview with Glen Wade Watson
No full textAn interview in which Manatee County native Mr. Watson discusses his family history and growing up in early Ellenton. Interview conducted by Libby Warner
Joe Warner
No full textJoe Warner, the author of Biscuits and 'Taters, at the Manatee Historical Commission booth at the 1983 Manatee County Fair
Joe Warner with framed Historical photos
No full textAuthor and Historical Society member Joe Warner poses with his framed historical photos of the early Florida cow hunter era. [Source: Warner papers, Eaton Florida History Collection
Three Florida Crackers
No full textLeft to right are Tissie Watson, Libby Warner and Ethylman Perkins. The ladies were visiting the Knoxville, Tennessee World's Fair
Virgil L. Baker letter to Warner Watson, May 4, 1950
No full textA letter from Virgil Baker to Warner Watson inquiring about the possibility the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) supporting the production of Acres of Sky at the University of Arkansas.The American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) was the precursor to the National Endowment for the Arts
Warner B. Ragsdale papers
No full textWarner B. Ragsdale (1898-1986) was a reporter, editor, and author interested mainly in politics. Throughout his career Ragsdale held positions with numerous news organizations including the Associated Press and U.S. News and World Report. The collection documents Ragsdale's career as editor and writer on the political scene through reference files, interview transcripts, manuscripts, notebooks, publications, and photographs
Virgil L. Baker letter to Warner Watson, March 11, 1950
No full textAn inquiry from Virgil Baker to Warner Watson of the Regional Theatre Service about the feasibility of hiring Dick Powell and his wife and to play the leads in Of Thee I Sing.This letter reveals Baker's concern that Charles Morrow Wilson's Acres of Sky will not be developed into a musical play in time for an opening of the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center the following November. Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing is considered as the alternate
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