

Besides Directing 100 Plays At Karamu From 1920-46, She Sometimes Wrote Plays For The Children And Once Completed A Play By Langston Hughes When The Final Act Failed To Arrive In Time. Jelliffe At The School Of Theater And Dance In New York. A Permanent Theater Was Opened In 1927, After 2 Summers' Study By Mrs. An Adult Dramatic Group, The Gilpin Players, Was Organized In The Couple's Living Room In 1920. Jelliffe Began Producing Children's Plays With Interracial Casting. To Help Draw Their Largely African American Constituency Into The Settlement's Program, Mrs. After A Year Spent Jointly As Graduate Students At The University Of Chicago, Rowena And Russell Were Married And Came To Cleveland To Establish The East Side Settlement House That Eventually Became Karamu. Born And Raised In New Albion, Ill., She Came To Ohio In 1910 To Enter Oberlin College, Where She Served As President Of The Oberlin Women's Suffrage League And Met Her Future Husband, Russell W. Ownership Signature, Dated 1921, Of Rowena Woodham-Jelliffe (1892- 1992), Who Became A Pioneer In The Field Of Interracial Theater As An Outgrowth Of Her Career As A Social Worker And Co-Founder Of Karamu House In Cleveland. Light Wear, A Few Pin-Point Frays At Corners.

By Knut Hamsun, Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Literature, 1920.
