Book, Document, Theater - Cover of "Told in a Chinese Garden and Other Plays for Outdoors and Indoors" by Constance Grenelle Wilcox
1920 – 1923
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Paper book cover for "Told in a Chinese Garden and Other Plays for Outdoors and Indoors" by Constance Grenelle Wilcox, published in 1920 by Henry Holt and Company, 19 West 44th Street, New York City. "Please return to CP" (Constance Pignatelli?) is written in pencil at the top of the cover. The back cover is missing; the front cover is in two pieces. Cover is ripped and stained. See the book at B2023.007a-e and the cover at A2023.JitneyPlayers.002.Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. In 1918, Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating founded the Woodland Garden Plays. The first performances were held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn". The plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WWI relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy.
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