| Title: |
Reminiscences of Edward Duryea Dowling
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A96
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Family background; childhood and education, Rhode Island; early vaudeville career; 1919-20 FOLLIES; Actors' strike, 1919; early plays: SALLY, IRENE, AND MARY; HONEYMOON LANE; SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK; Chrysler-Ziegfeld Radio Follies; New York City Democratic politics: William F. Kenny's Tiger Room; national and state campaigns, 1926-40, organization and finances; banking crisis; 1932 Federal Theater Project; organizer and first president, United Service Organizations Camp Shows, World War II; Tennessee Williams, THE GLASS MENAGERIE; Eugene O'Neill, THE ICEMAN COMETH; comments on many people in the theater, Hollywood, business, finance, and politics, including L. B. Mayer, Marcus Loew, Sarah Bernhardt, Boris Said, George Jean Nathan, Alfred E. Smith, J. J. Raskob, Tim Mara, Henry Morgenthau, Frank Hague, Joseph P. Kennedy, Michael Curley.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 838 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part III, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1963 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Dowling, Edward Duryea, 1894-1976
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1894
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| Speaker occupation: |
Actor; Director; Producer
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| Age at speaking: |
69
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| Document date: |
1963
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| Interviewer: |
Gold, Neil
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| Organizations discussed: |
Democratic Party, US
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Actors; Democratic Party, US; Motion picture industry; North America; Oral history; Theater; Theater--Production and direction; United States; United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945; United States--Politics and government--1901-1953; Vaudeville
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Dowling, Edward Duryea, 1894-1976; New Deal, 1933-1939; New York (NY)--Politics and government--1898-1951
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018754-14197
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