Endowments; Drama in education; Children's theater; New York (N.Y.); Children's Educational Theatre (New York, N.Y.); Heniger, Alice Minnie Herts http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000379765614
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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Herts started as a social worker with the Educational Alliance, and in 1903 founded the Children's Educational Theatre in New York City, 'to make our thousands of immigrant children better citizens; to educate them; to develop their sympathies and the ir characters; to give them the best possible sort of a good time, and to counteract the evil and sordid influences of tenement and factory.' She recruited Mark Twain to serve as president of the theatre board, and Emma Sheridan Fry served as director of the productions until 1909. The program produced or adapted works by Mary Hunter Austin, Lady Gregory, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other writers. Her book, The Children's Educational Theatre (1911) laid out the mission and educational bases of her project, as well as the practical aspects of creating a theatre program for children. A later book by Herts, The Kingdom of the Child (1918), explored similar themes. By 1917 Herts held a faculty appointment at Columbia University. She also made a lecture tour and spoke at national meetings, including the Drama League convention in Pittsburgh in 1917." [SOURCE: "Alice Minnie Herts." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Minnie_Herts. Accessed 25 Sep. 2018.]