Hey, Dear Susan and Friends, Yes, My first intro. to MT. was when my mother read Daddy Log-Legs to me -she loved it- and knew Jean's relationship to Mark Twain... Has anyone thought about the connection to the musical ANNIE....?....Get busy.... the deadline for the Elmira conference is looming.....See you in Elmira. Gretchen
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> Daddy Long-Legs is also a book, I think. My mother loved it when she was yo=
> ung; was always trying to get me to read it.  I knew about the connection w=
> ith Twain, but I don't think anyone has seriously followed it up, so yes, B=
> arb Schmidt is right; there's a paper topic here!  Someone should do it! --=
>  susan harris
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> On Jan 13, 2013, at 7:36 PM, "Gretchen Sharlow" <[log in to unmask]> wrot=
> e:
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> > Hey People, there's a paper here for the Elmira Conference..... See you i=
> n August!
> > ---- John Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:=20
> >> *Daddy Long-legs *was the basis of several films beginning in the silent
> >> era, one with Mary Pickford, including a Fred Astaire musical in the
> >> fifties. I didb't know the Mark Twain connection.
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> >>> Editing a biography of actor Ruth Chatterton, I ran across a dmention o=
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> >>> Mark Twain's niece,  Jean Webster.  Apparently, actor/producer Henry Mi=
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> >>> had picked up a copy of Webster's popular book Daddy Long-Legs at a
> >>> newsstand and contacted the authorh about adapting it for the stage in
> >>> 1914.
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> >>> The book has some comments on Webster, stressing Jean Webster combined
> >>> writing with social activism.  "The story was inspired by her work on
> >>> behalf
> >>> of orphans.  She drew her material from monthly visits to orphanages in=
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> >>> Variety praised, "Daddy Long-Legs is a full-grown comedy in which the
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> >>> has blended a laugh and a tear in almost every line."[i]
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> >>> Apparently, the play was quite a success for several years and perhaps
> >>> helped pave the way for the sufferage movement. Never heard of it
> >>> before-anyone know more?
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> >>> Dr. Wesley Britton
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> >>> [i] Review of Daddy Long-Legs, Variety, February 27, 1914
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> >> John H. Davis, Ph.D.
> >> Professor of English
> >> Department of Language and Literature
> >> Chowan University
> >> Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855
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