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Description
This is the open-air theater in South Berwick where Gladys Hasty Carroll's story, As the Earth Turns" was performed.
The play, based on Carroll's 1933 novel by the same name, was intended to counteract a 1934 film version. Carroll and others were unhappy with the film depiction of Maine and farm life.
About This Item
- Title: Theater, South Berwick, 1937
- Creator: G. Herbert Whitney
- Creation Date: 1937-07-31
- Subject Date: 1937-07-31
- Location: South Berwick, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 17 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 553, vol. 1
- Collection: George Herbert Whitney interesting interviews : photographs
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Authors, American--20th century--Maine
- Carroll, Gladys Hasty, (1904-)--As the earth turns
- Carroll, Gladys Hasty, (1904-)--Homes and haunts--Maine--South Berwick
- Folk drama, American--Maine--South Berwick
- Open air theaters--Maine--South Berwick
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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