Category: 19th Century Theatre History
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Preston K Dillenbeck would enroll some of the world’s first film celebrities, and the up-and-coming teenage director from Kinsley, Kansas, Charlie Edwards. Subscribe to Community Arts Uncovered to learn how Dillenbeck’s school of elocution impacted film and theatre in the…
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Gilmor Brown’s dramatic work became incredibly consequential, but is still rarely acknowledged in theatre history. More so, Gilmor’s educational efforts would go on to directly impact television and film luminaries, like Rue McClanahan, Leonard Nimoy, Dustin Hoffman, Sally Struthers, and…
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100 years ago today, a prolific and remarkable era in history ended in Kinsley, Kansas. On June 1, 1926, one of Kinsley’s most well-known native sons, Charles Rufus Edwards, passed away; he was only forty-five years old. In his short…
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