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Mary Aldis (playwright)

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501: 33: 513: 439: 489: 124:, where she converted a guest house into a small, 90-seat theater near her home. Between 1910 and 1915, the Aldis Playhouse's Lake Forest Players hosted amateur works by Aldis and others. They were reviewed as having "simple, truthful acting" and performed in Boston's 128:. Aldis participated in the Chicago Players' Workshop, which presented Chicago playwrights. The Players also adapted from European one-acts and short stories for invited audiences. Aldis published a collection of her plays, 548: 543: 558: 450: 390: 360: 179: 443: 109:, a wealthy area north of Chicago. They became known as patrons of the arts and for their relationships with area writers such as 563: 553: 463: 479: 196: 105:. In 1892, she married the Arthur Taylor Aldis, a Chicago lawyer and real estate investor, and together settled in 459: 86: 137: 331: 153: 149: 106: 538: 533: 199:, multiple women's groups, and led an area visiting nurses association. Aldis died on June 20, 1949. 145: 468: 472: 120:, a literary period between 1910 and the mid-1920s. Their Lake Forest residence became known as an 102: 117: 382:
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
121: 101:. Her birth year is contested, with one source listing 1869. She attended St. Mary's School in 505: 386: 380: 356: 169: 110: 98: 493: 174: 517: 164: 32: 527: 157: 141: 350: 335: 125: 454: 132:, in 1915. Among those that Aldis wrote, produced, and performed, the 1915 438: 53: 512: 89:
who founded a small theater outside Chicago in the early 1910s.
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She was also involved in poetry. At Lake Forest, Aldis hosted
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is best known. These productions were contemporary with the
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Women Building Chicago 1790–1990: A Biographical Dictionary
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Aldis was a prominent figure in the second wave of the
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Chicago
little theater movement
Chicago, Illinois
Knoxville, Illinois
Lake Forest, Illinois
Edgar Lee Masters
Chicago Renaissance
artists' colony
Toy Theatre
Chicago Little Theatre
Lady Gregory
William Butler Yeats
John Millington Synge
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Abbey Theatre
Harriet Monroe
Poetry
Alfred Kreymborg
Others: A Magazine of the New Verse
Society of Midland Authors






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Women Building Chicago 1790–1990: A Biographical Dictionary

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