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Abstract Alexander Arkatov was a teacher of theater at the Imperial School of the Theatre and an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Moscow, where he lectured on the history of drama. He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre, studied under Stanislavsky, and later worked at the Moscow Camerny Theatre under Director Tairov. By 1919, he was the associate director of productions at the Theatre of the Revolution, and was appointed Dean and Professor of the Academy at the State Motion...

Abstract The Mary Wood Hinman Collection consists of teaching materials for folk dancing, piano forte and some violin music books, programs for plays, photographs, sheet music, newspaper clippings as well as presidential and American history related items that have been collected by Mary Wood Hinman. The items document Hinman's long career as a folk dance teacher, choreographer, musician, lyricist and more. Mary Wood Hinman is regarded as an American scholar who helped to lead in the expansion and...