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Elizabeth Lay Green

1897–1989 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Paul and Elizabeth Green sell their village home and lay out a new house east of town Paul and Elizabeth Green sell their home in the Glen to Mr. and Mrs. J. Manson Valentine and, with advice from a landscape architect, site a family house, gardens and outbuildings on their tract east of the village, hoping to move in by September. People: Paul Green, Elizabeth Lay Green Place: Paul Green tract between the Durham and Raleigh roads, later 610 Greenwood Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. Manson ValentineSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1936, p. 1

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By Elizabeth Lay Green

A study course in modern drama

Green, Elizabeth Lay, 1897-1989; Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944 · 1927

A study course in modern drama prepared by Elizabeth Lay Green with Frederick H. Koch, issued in 1927 for the university extension program at Chapel Hill. Topics include the teaching of drama in continuing education. The material includes outlines and syllabi. Koch founded the Carolina Playmakers, which ties the syllabus to the university's theater work.

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A study course in modern drama : program for women's clubs

Green, Elizabeth Lay, 1897-1989 · 1921 · Published by the University

The 1921 version of Elizabeth Lay Green's modern drama course, published by the university at Chapel Hill as a program for women's clubs. Topics include drama in outline and syllabus form and its teaching through continuing education. The subtitle names the audience it was written for, the clubs that the extension division supplied with reading programs from the campus.

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About Elizabeth Lay Green

Elizabeth Lay Green

Green, Janet McNeill, 1931-2012 · 2002 · The Author

Janet McNeill Green's portrait of Elizabeth Lay Green, an American author and author's spouse who lived from 1897 to 1989. The booklet includes her piece on the baptism of Virginia Dare and an Eleanor Dare lullaby printed with music. Fifty nine unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits. Green was associated with Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Green, Elizabeth Lay, 1897-1989.

James R. Spence audio recordings relating to Paul Green, 1974-1979.

Spence, James R. · 1974

Twenty eight audio recordings made by James R. Spence between 1974 and 1979 concerning the playwright Paul Green, preserved as oral histories in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5170. Subjects include Green, Elizabeth Lay Green, American authors and their political and social views, intellectual life in North Carolina and the South, Harnett County, and social life in Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Green, Elizabeth Lay, 1897-1989.

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