Vinton freedley biography of abraham lincoln

  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN is a native of the county of Hardin, Kentucky.
  • But one day it occurred to the producers Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley to combine George and Ira in a show with music and lyrics written entirely by them.
  • Plans for reviving the national theatre idea.

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    Clayton Meeker Hamilton papers

    1899-1946

    Clayton Meeker Hamilton, drama critic, lecturer and playwright, was born in Brooklyn on November 14, 1881 to George and Susie Amelia (Corey) Hamilton. He received his B. A. from Polytechnic Institute in 1900 and his M. A. from Columbia University one year later. He was a dramatic critic as well as the associate editor of Forum magazine, 1907-09. He also served as the dramatic editor of The Bookman, 1910-18; Everyone's Magazine, 1911-13; and Vogue, 1912-1920. Among his more successful plays were The Love that Blinds (1906), The Better Understanding (1917), The Stranger at the Inn (1913), The Big idea (1914) and Thirty Days (1916). He was an associate editor at Goldwyn Studios, 1920-1922; director of education at Palmer Photoplay Corp., 1922-1925; president of Palmer Institute of Authorship, 1925-1929. He was a member of both Phi Kappa Psi and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1932, he was awarded a Unive

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    One day in 1943, my telephone rang. It was Theresa Helburn, at the Theatre Guild, asking me to come to her office. Elia Kazan was there. I was astonished to learn that the Guild was going to put on my play "Jacobowsky and the Colonel," and that Elia Kazan was to direct it. In its casting of the play, the Guild was inspired: Louis Calhern for the Colonel; Annabella for Marianne; and, for Jacobowsky, the Viennese comedian Oscar Karlweis.

    I had seen Karlweis once, some time before. An Austrian friend had invited me uptown, to the East Side, to see a performance of "Fledermaus," promising me, "You will see an entrancing actor." Karlweis played Prince Orlofsky. I was entranced by him from the moment he appeared on the stage. He was stylish, he was crisp and elegant, he was an aristocrat who saw through aristocracy's pretensions. Through everything he said and did there was th

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    Picture of Abraham Lincoln

    ABRAHAM LINCOLN is a native of the county of Hardin, Kentucky. He was born February 12, 1808. His parents came from Virginia, and it is said made no pretensions of belonging to "one of the first families." His grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to the State of Kentucky, about the year 1781. A year or two later than this, he was killed bygd the Indians, while at work in the forest. Mr. Lincoln's earlier förfäder were members of the Society of Friends, and went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania, where some of the family still reside.

    Mr. Lincoln's father, at the death of his father, in 1783, was but six years old. He removed to what fryst vatten now Spencer county, Indiana, in 1816. The early,

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    Indiana life of Mr. Lincoln is thus described bygd one of his friends:

    "The family reached their new home about the time the State was admitted into the Union. The region in which they settled