| Description | Programme Chekhov Theatre Studio (Elmhirst Theatre, Ridgefield Connecticut); prospectuses (including biographical details of staff); letter from Beatrice Straight to Dorothy Elmhirst about classes (including Jilinsky); letter from Michael Chekhov, Somoff, to Hans Oppenheim; correspondence about possible agency under Somoff - including Kurt Jooss, Christopher Martin, Fritz Cohen, Milton Rose; financial arrangements with George Shdanoff; letters to Dorothy Elmhirst - from Michael Chekhov, from A Jilinsky; notes in Dorothy Elmhirst's hand; letter to Kestor Baruch, timetable, letter to M Dobujinsky, to William C Whitney Foundation from Chekhov Theatre Studio, Ridgefield.
(Staff in 1939 include: Michael Chekhov, George Shdanoff, Alice Crowther, Beatrice Straight, Alan Harkness, Robert Woods, Joseph Wood, Eugene Somoff, Deirdre Hurst). |