The Lula Vollmer Papers include a laminated newspaper articles on her play, Sun-Up and correspondence between Ms. Vollmer and Mrs. Thomas Chesbrough of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Lula Vollmer Papers include a laminated newspaper articles on her play, Sun-Up and correspondence between Ms. Vollmer and Mrs. Thomas Chesbrough of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Lula Vollmer (1898–1955) was a playwright. A pioneer in the American folk-play, she was born in Keyser, North Carolina, and educated at what later became Asheville College. After graduation she went to New York to try to sell her play Sun-Up. Although she worked for the Theatre Guild as a box-office clerk, the Guild joined other producers in rejecting the work, which was finally mounted by a minor producer in 1923. It told the story of a vengeful mountain woman, and Vollmer waived her royalties for the play, giving them instead to help educate Southern mountaineers. In the same year she also won praise for her backwoods drama The Shame Woman (1923). None of her subsequent plays was a commercial success, although several had considerable merit. Among the more noteworthy were The Dunce Boy (1925), Trigger (1927), and The Hill Between (1938). (from Oxford Companion to American Theatre)
Lula Vollmer Collection of Papers consists of two letters to a Mrs. Chesebrough of Pittsburgh from Lula Vollmer and of one laminated newspaper article about Vollmer's play 'Sun-Up'. The letters which are of a social nature discuss Vollmer's family matters, mutual friends, and Vollmer's career as a playright.
This collection is arranged chronologically.
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Papers, 1924-1932, undated | ACSC_Box 20, Folder 10 |