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actress, musician, composer and educator. Initially appearing in musical comedies and as an accompanist to the Arruyo Chorus, she began teaching singing and founded the
National Children's Theater Company in 1931. In 1946, she inaugurated her group of youth actors' appearance on radio and in 1958
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after her mother's death. The radio show she founded is still being produced and is now directed by her granddaughter, Anabella Palma
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María Marta Bolaños
Schaeffer was born on 15 January 1897 in Guatemala City, Guatemala to Josefina Schaeffer and Salvador Bolaños. She studied acting with Adriana Saravia de Palarea and performed in Guatemala's
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theaters. Her debut was in the theater operated by Jesús de Quiñónez and later, she performed at the Teatro
Renacimiento. Her greatest success was during 1918 and 1919, when she performed in pieces like
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Bolaños began giving singing and theatrical classes, working with several different public schools. She also composed music, with lyrics written by
Gustavo Schwartz. Some of her most noted pieces are
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217:(Children's Radio Theater) was inaugurated on television, appearing on the country's first television station, Televisión Nacional Channel 8. In 1962, she received the
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555:[Broadcasters and actors confronted by Children's Radio Theatre] (in Spanish). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Publinews. 14 July 2016. Archived from
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took them to television. She received Guatemala's highest honor, the
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Sources for Bolaños' birth typically cite her as being born in 1900.
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