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Interview with Margaret Gage [sound recording]

Title
Interview with Margaret Gage [sound recording]
Author
Gage, Margaret
Publication
1979.

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Spoken word recordingRestricted use *MGZTC 3-690Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
White, Betty, 1917-
Description
1 sound cassette (35 min.)
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Betty White. Oral History Archive.
Subject
  • Kennedy, Charles Rann, 1871-
  • Matthison, Edith Wynne, 1875-1955
  • Bennett College (Millbrook, N.Y.)
  • Incidental dances
  • Greek dancing, Revivals of
  • Audiotapes > Gage M
Note
  • Interviewed by Betty White August 6, 1979 in Pacific Palisades, California in the home of Margaret Gage.
  • For a transcript of this interview, see: *MGZMT 3-690.
Local note
  • Additional copy: *MGZTC 3-691A
Contents
SUMMARY: Margaret Gage describes her early dance training at the Bennett School, Millbrook, New York, and later with Florence Fleming Noyes, Anna Duncan, and Maria Theresa Duncan; teaching at the Bennett School in the Drama and Dance Departments; her acting career and association with playwright Charles Rann Kennedy and his wife, actress Edith Wynne Matthison; choreographing incidental dances in Shakespeare plays and then for the Greek chorus in Greek dramas such as Antigone and Electra; the establishment of an outdoor Greek Theatre at the Bennett School in 1924; the role of the Greek chorus in Greek dramas.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-690
OCLC
NYPY847015080-R
Author
Gage, Margaret. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Margaret Gage [sound recording]
Imprint
1979.
Local Note
Additional copy: *MGZTC 3-691A
Local Subject
Incidental dances.
Greek dancing, Revivals of.
Audiotapes -- Gage M.
Added Author
White, Betty, 1917- Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-690
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