fiction.wikisort.org - Writer

Search / Calendar

Merrill Denison (23 June 1893 — 13 June 1975) was a Canadian playwright.[1] He created many dramas which were broadcast during the early days of radio, and was the art director of Hart House Theatre, Toronto, Ontario.

Merrill Denison
Merrill Denison
Born(1893-06-23)June 23, 1893
Detroit, Michigan
DiedJune 12, 1975(1975-06-12) (aged 81)
San Diego, California
OccupationPlaywright
Spouse(s)Jessie Muriel Goggin (1885-1954)
Parent(s)Howard Denison (1858-1941) Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921)

Early life


Denison was born in Detroit and raised in Ontario,[2] the son of Canadian author, dressmaker, theosophist, Whitmanite, and feminist Flora MacDonald (Merrill) Denison and American garment salesman Howard Denison.[3][4] He studied architecture at Columbia University, then at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and finally at the University of Toronto.[5]


Career


Instead of making a career as an architect, Denison began working as the art director of Hart House Theatre in Toronto. In 1926 he married Jessie Muriel Goggin. Denison soon began to write comedies, some of which were conceived at his summer home in what would later become Bon Echo and performed in the Tweed Playhouse in Tweed, Ontario.

The Romance of Canada, a series of historical plays written by Denison, were broadcast as radio dramas in 1931 and 1932 by CNRV.[6] During the decades that followed he prepared many plays for broadcast in the United States.

Increasingly interested in business history, during the 1950s and 1960s Denison wrote several histories of Canadian corporations, including Harvest Triumphant: The Story of Massey-Harris and The People's Power: the History of Ontario Hydro (1960)[7]

In 1959 Denison donated his family property to the Province of Ontario for development into Bon Echo Provincial Park.[8]


Plays



Books and papers



References


  1. Mel Atkey. Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre. Dundurn; 30 October 2006. ISBN 978-1-4597-2120-3. p. 45–.
  2. Dick MacDonald. The Media Game. Content; 1972. p. 11.
  3. Dictionary of Canadian Biography: MERRILL, FLORA MacDonald (Denison)
  4. That Inferiority Complex: An Address by Merrill Denison, F.R.S.A.
  5. John Campbell. The Mazinaw Experience: Bon Echo and Beyond. Dundurn; 15 July 2000. ISBN 978-1-55488-337-0. p. 93–.
  6. William H. New. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press; 2002. ISBN 978-0-8020-0761-2. p. 306, 930.
  7. Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire. Between The Lines; 2004. ISBN 978-1-896357-88-1. p. 9–.
  8. Cynthia Sugars. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press; 1 December 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-049400-1. p. 571–.




Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2024
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии