Sands, Dorothy, 1893-1980

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Dorothy Sands (1893-1950), a stage actress for nearly 50 years and an accomplished diseuse and mimic, died last Thursday at a nursing home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. She was 87 years old and had been a resident of Manhattan.

Made Broadway debut in Catskill Dutch (1924), followed by Little Clay Cart, Exiles, The Critic, Grand Street Follies, The Dybbuk, The Apothocary, The Seagull, Jeannie, Misalliance, Quadrille, Mary Stuart, My Fair Lady and Bell Book and Candle; had 2 one-woman shows, Styles in Acting and Our Stage and Stars. Received Tony Award for her teaching of classic acting at the American Theatre Wing (1959).

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referencedIn	Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935. George Pierce Baker papers, 1878-1958 (inclusive).	Yale University Library
referencedIn	Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935. Papers of George Pierce Baker, 1882-1926 (inclusive), 1890-1926 (bulk).	Houghton Library
referencedIn	De Pauw, Victor. Grand Street follies of 1928 portrait collection, 1928.	New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn	G. B. SHAW PAPERS: SERIES I. Vol. LXXX (ff. 119). Photographs of productions of 'Androcles and the Lion’, 'Arms and the Man’, 'Back to Methuselah’, 'Caesar and Cleopatra’, 'Candida’, 'Captain Brassbound’s Conversion’, and Anatole France, 'The Man wh..., 1915-1950	British Library
referencedIn	George Pierce Baker papers, 1878-1958	Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
creatorOf	Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946. Studio one summer theatre-- The Voysey inheritance / by Granville Barker ; adapted for television by Michael Dyne.	Bowling Green State University, BGSU Libraries
referencedIn	Huntington, Catharine Sargent, 1886-1987. Papers, 1913-1987 (inclusive).	Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn	Huntington, Catharine Sargent, 1886-1987. Papers, 1919-1973	Houghton Library
referencedIn	Huntington, Catharine Sargent, 1887-1987. Papers, 1913-1987	Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn	John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.	Houghton Library

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associatedWith	Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935
associatedWith	Benney, Robert, 1904-2001
correspondedWith	Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969
associatedWith	CATHARINE SARGENT HUNTINGTON, 1886-1987
associatedWith	Huntington, Catharine Sargent, 1886-1987.
associatedWith	Lortel, Lucille
associatedWith	Radcliffe College Class of 1915
associatedWith	Radcliffe College. Class of 1915.
associatedWith	Rapport, Will.
associatedWith	Saddler, Donald