Ruth E Draper

The Letters of Ruth Draper: 1920-1956, a Self-Portrait of a Great Actress

The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-Portrait of an Actress

Ruth Draper

Ruth Draper (December 2, 1884 December 30, 1956) was an American actress , dramatist and noted diseuse who specialized in character-driven monologues...

The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-Portrait of an Actress, 1920 - 1956

Ruth Draper (1884–1956) was an internationally famous monologist who charmed audiences around the world with her "cast of characters" in some sixty sketches. Using no scenery, no props, and only an occasional shawl or other wrap over a simple dress, she was able to people the stage with a great vari...

The World of Ruth Draper: A Portrait of an Actress

The World of Ruth Draper: A Portrait of an Actress captures the life of the internationally acclaimed monologist and the familial, social, and theatrical worlds in which she lived from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1950s. Dorothy Warren draws on correspondence with family and friends, theat...

Ruth Draper, Queen of the One-Woman Show: How She Influenced Lily Tomlin & Others (Past Times Solo Performance Series Book 7)

Ruth Draper (1884-1956) was the much emulated but unrivaled "queen of one-woman theatre" for over four decades. From a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island to her celebrated portrait of a harried New York matron at an Italian lesson, her characterizations were true to life. Her original RCA recordings...

The Letters of Ruth Draper: A Self-Portrait of a Great Actress (1920-1956) by Ruth Draper (1979-05-03)

The Art of Ruth Draper: Her Dramas and Characters

The book has two parts. Part 1 is a memoir by Zabel. Part 2 is the dramas of Ruth Draper. 35 dramas included, some in English and some in other European languages, mostly French and Italian.

The Letters of Ruth Draper: A Self-Portrait of a Great Actress (1920-1956)

The letters of Ruth Draper: 1920-1956, a self-portrait of a great actress

A Need to Testify: Portraits of Lauro De Bosis, Ruth Draper, Gaetano Salvemini, and Ignazio Silone an Essay on Biography

This distinguished biographer draws, in splendid prose, the portraits of leaders in the Italian anti-Fascist struggle of the thirties and forties.

The Art of Ruth Draper - Her Dramas and Characters With a Memoir By Morton Dauwen Zabel