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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Anna Alice Chapin<br />
| birthname = <br />
| image = Anna Alice Chapin.jpg<br />
| image_size = 190px<br />
| caption = [[New York Public Library]] Digital Gallery<ref>{{cite web |title=Anna Alice Chapin. |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-7e27-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 |website=NYPL Digital Collections |access-date=9 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1880|12|16|mf=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[New York City]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1920|2|26|1880|12|16|mf=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[New York City]]<br />
| spouse = Robert Peyton Carter<br />
| occupation = Author and Playwright<br />
}}<br />
[[File:RobertPeytonCarter.jpg|thumb|Robert Peyton Carter]]<br />
'''Anna Alice Chapin''' (December 16, 1880 &ndash; February 26, 1920) was an American author and playwright. She wrote novels, short stories, fairy tales and books on music, but is perhaps best remembered for her 1904 collaboration with [[Glen MacDonough]] on the child's book adaptation of the ''[[Babes in Toyland (operetta)|Babes in Toyland]]'' operetta.<ref name="NewYorkTribune">{{cite news |author1=[[Dodd, Mead & Co.|Fox, Duffield and Company]] (advertisement) |title=Babes in Toyland by Glen MacDonough and Anna Alice Chapin |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1904-10-30/ed-1/seq-60/#date1=1900&sort=date&date2=1922&words=Alice+Anna+Chapin&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=19&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Anna+Alice+Chapin%22&y=6&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 |access-date=9 December 2020 |work=[[The New York Tribune]] |date=30 October 1904 |location=New York, New York |page=10 |quote=[[Ethel Franklin Betts]], Illustrator (New-York tribune. 1866-1924, [[National Endowment for the Humanities]])}}</ref><ref name="christies">{{cite web |title="The Uniform Fitted Him Fairly Well", Ethel Franklin Betts (c. 1877-1956) - Sale 12162 - American Art Online; 14 - 23 March 2016 |url=https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/american-art/the-uniform-fitted-him-fairly-well-5/25281 |website=[[Christie’s]] |access-date=9 December 2020 |quote=... the Christmas-themed children’s book, Babes in Toyland. The book, based on the operetta of the same name, was written by lyricist Glen MacDonough and Anna Alice Chapin.}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Anna Alice Chapin was born in New York City, the daughter of Dr. Frederick Windle Chapin and the former Anna J. Hoppin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=John William |title=Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 |year=1914 |publisher=American Commonwealth Company |page=164 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHUEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Robert+Peyton+Carter%22&pg=PA164 |access-date=9 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Her father, a native of [[Providence, Rhode Island]], attended [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]], Hartford and received his medical degree from [[New York University]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aKmEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA266&dq= New York University, General Alumni Catalogue: Medical alumni, 1833-1907, 1908, p. 266] accessed 6.17.13</ref> Her mother was most likely a close relative of the architect [[Howard Hoppin]] (1854–1940), who designed several buildings in the [[Pomfret Street Historic District]], including the Chapin home.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zBIMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=%22howard+hoppin%22+dr+chapin+connecticut&hl=en ''American Architect and Architecture'', Volume 19, p. vii] accessed 6.17.13</ref> Chapin received a private education and studied music under [[Harry Rowe Shelley]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
Chapin published her first book, ''The Story of the Rhinegold'', when she was just 17 years old. Her other works would include: ''Wonder Tales from Wagner'' (1898); ''Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunhilde'' (1898); ''Masters of Music'' (1901); ''The True Story of Humpty Dumpty: How He Was Rescued by Three Mortal Children in Make Believe Land'', Illustrated & Decorated by Ethel Franklin Betts (1905); ''Discords'' (1905); ''The Heart of Music'' (1906); ''Königskinder'' (1911); ''The Nowadays Fairy Book'' (1911); ''The Street-Car Mystery'' (1911); ''The Spirit of the Sea'' (1912); ''The Topsy Turvy Fairy'' (1913); ''The Eagle's Mate'' (1914); ''The Every Day Fairy Book'' (1915); ''Mountain Madness'' (1917); and ''Jane'' (1920).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6xPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA296&dq= ''The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge'', Volume 6, 1918, p. 296] accessed 6.17.13</ref><br />
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Chapin also wrote many short stories for magazines and newspaper syndication.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}<br />
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==''The Deserters''==<br />
Chapin wrote a play, produced in New York City in 1910, entitled ''The Deserters'',<ref>{{cite news |title=Page 4 |url=https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071730712/310 |work=Michigan Daily |issue=(vol. 21, iss. 75) |date=January 14, 1911 |page=4 |language=en |quote="The Deserters,"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Fine Arts Quartet Records, 1910-2016 |url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-mil-uwmmss0030;focusrgn=C01;cc=wiarchives;byte=306655210 |website=Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids |publisher=University of Wisconsin Digital Collections |access-date=9 December 2020 |quote=The Deserters, by Robert Peyton Carter and Anna Alice Chapin - Hudson (Reel 4 Frame 954 Volume 29, 1911 )}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=HUDSON THEATER, 139-141 West 44th Street, Manhattan. architects J.B. McElfatrick & Son and Israels & Harder. Landmark Site: Built 1902-04; Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 997, Lot 15. |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1340.pdf |website=Designation List 196 LP-1340 |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission |access-date=9 December 2020 |date=November 17, 1987 |quote=THE DESERTERS 9/20/10 (63 perfs.) by Robert Peyton Carter and Anna Alice Chapin; with Frederick Truesdell and James J. Ryan.}}</ref> written with her husband, Robert Peyton Carter, a stage actor who often worked with [[Maude Adams]].<ref name= "NYT">Anna Alice Chapin Dead. ''The New York Times,'' February 27, 1920, p. 13</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Carter |first1=Robert Peyton |last2=Chapin |first2=Anna Alice |title="The Deserters," |date=1910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YVTyQEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jenks |first1=George C. |last2=Chapin |first2=Anna Alice |title=The Deserters |date=1911 |publisher=H.K. Fly Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBI7AQAAMAAJ |access-date=9 December 2020 |language=en |quote=Free eBook}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Guide to the Belknap Playbills and Programs Collection |url=https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/belknap/ufplaybills4.htm |website=University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries |access-date=9 December 2020 |quote=Peter Pan (By J.M. Barrie - Original Adaptation) : or "the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J.M. Barrie. Various productions (1905 - 90) starring Maude Adams, Robert Peyton Carter, Marion Abbott, Ernest Lawford, Grace Henderson, Lula Peck, R.P. Carter, Byron Silvers, Pauline Chase, Marilyn Miller (Portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1945 biopic, "Till the Clouds Roll By" and by June Haver in the 1949 biopic, "Look for the Silver Lining"), J. Edward Bromberg, Josephine Hutchinson, Eva Le Gallienne, Howard da Silva, Charles Walters, Richard Waring, Nina Boucicault, Arthur Lupino, Sydney Harcourt, Violet Kemble Cooper, Leslie Banks, Jane Wren, Unity More, Dot Temple, Hilda Blake, Mark Buffery, Richard Huw, Simon Slater, Ian Bolt, Susan Hampshire, Michael Denison, etc. Originally produced (1905) by Charles Frohman.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Warde |first1=Frederick |title=The Fools of Shakespeare |date=1915 |publisher=McBride, Nast & Company |location=London |url=http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/characters/merchantgobbo.html |access-date=9 December 2020 |chapter=A Merry Devil - Launcelot Gobbo in the Merchant of Venice |quote=A most interesting and unique performance of Launcelot Gobbo was given some years ago by that sterling character actor, Mr. Robert Peyton Carter, so long associated with Miss Maude Adams. I was the Shylock of the performance to which I refer.}}</ref> In 1919 ''The Deserters'' was released as the film ''Sacred Silence'', with [[William Russell (American actor)|William Russell]] and [[Agnes Ayres]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fox Film Corporation |title=Sacred Silence |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010651/ |website=iMdb |date=12 October 1919}}</ref><br />
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==Film==<br />
Several of Chapin's stories were adapted for film between 1914 and 1961. ''[[The Eagle's Mate]]'' was produced by Famous Players in 1914<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ0sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA491&dq=pilot.films+1913&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU37L7wo2MAxVISTABHYEsIaoQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=snippet&q="pilot"&f=false</ref> with [[Mary Pickford]] and [[James Kirkwood, Sr.]] in the starring roles. In 1920 ''Mountain Madness'' came out with a cast led by [[Mignon Anderson]], Harold Miller (1894-1972) and [[Ora Carew]]. ''The Girl of Gold'' written with [[Cleveland Moffett]] first appeared in the magazine ''Snappy Stories'' as a serial running from December, 1919 to March, 1920 and was produced as a film with [[Florence Vidor]], [[Malcolm McGregor]] and [[Alan Roscoe]] in 1925. The libretto ''Babes in Toyland'' was first seen on film in [[Babes in Toyland (1934 film)|1934]] as a vehicle for [[Laurel and Hardy]] and again in [[Babes in Toyland (1961 film)|1961]] with [[Ray Bolger]], [[Tommy Sands (entertainer)|Tommy Sands]] and [[Annette Funicello]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&pg=PA293&dq= ''The American Film Institute Catalog'', (Kenneth White Munden, editor), 1997, p. 283] accessed 6.17.13</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152156/ Anna Alice Chapin] - Internet Movie Database accessed 6.17.13</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Chapin, Anna Alice (1897), ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73548 The story of the Rhinegold (Der Ring des Nibelungen) told for young people]'', New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, pubdate 1900<br />
[[File:Babes in Toyland - Glen MacDonough, Anna Alice Chapin.JPG|right|thumb|200px|'''Babes in Toyland''', 1904]]<br />
* {{cite book |last1=MacDonough |first1=Glen |last2=Chapin |first2=Anna Alice |last3=Betts |first3=Ethel Franklin |author1-link=Glen MacDonough |author2-link=Anna Alice Chapin |author3-link=Ethel Franklin Betts |title=Babes in Toyland |date=1904 |publisher=[[Dodd, Mead & Co.|Fox, Duffield and Company]] |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Babes_in_Toyland.html?id=xRtUAAAAYAAJ <!-- |access-date=9 December 2020 --> |language=en |format=octavo}}<ref name="christies" /><ref name="NewYorkTribune" /><br />
* {{cite book |last1=Chapin |first1=Anna Alice |title=The heart of music: the story of the violin |date=1907 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co. |location=New York |oclc=1045975184}}<ref>{{cite news |title=STORY OF THE VIOLIN.; THE HEART OF MUSIC. The Story of the Violin. By Anna Alice Chapin, author of "Masters of Song," &c. Pp. 299. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.60. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/01/26/archives/story-of-the-violin-the-heart-of-music-the-story-of-the-violin-by.html |work=The New York Times |date=26 January 1907}}</ref><br />
* {{cite book |last1=Carter |first1=Robert Peyton |last2=Chapin |first2=Anna Alice |title="The Deserters," |date=1910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YVTyQEACAAJ |language=en}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Chapin |first1=Anna Alice |title=The Everyday Fairy Book |date=1915 |publisher=Dodd, Mead |location=NYC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16GkswEACAAJ |language=en |quote=Illustrated by [[Jessie Willcox Smith]]}}<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Chapin |first1=Anna Alice |title=Greenwich Village |date=1917 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co. |location=New York City |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16907 |language=English |quote=Illustrator : [[Allen Gilbert Cram]]}}<ref>{{cite web |title=1916: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Sheridan Square, Part I |url=http://hatchingcatnyc.com/2016/05/07/crazy-cat-sheridan-square-greenwich-village/ |website=The Hatching Cat |date=7 May 2016 |quote=As Anna Alice Chapin wrote in her book Greenwich Village (1920):}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Chapin married Robert Peyton Carter, a stage actor who often worked with Maude Adams, in 1906.<br />
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Chapin, aged 39, died after a short illness at her residence on West Thirteenth Street, New York City.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary for Anna Alice Chapin Chapin (Aged 40) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56167498/obituary-for-anna-alice-chapin-chapin/ |work=Chicago Tribune |date=27 February 1920 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=13}}</ref> She was preceded in death, on June 8, 1918, in Monrovia, California, by her husband, Robert Peyton Carter,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Aushenker |first1=Michael |title=Historical Museum Explores Miramar's Past |url=https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2011/August-2011/08_02_2011_Historical_Museum_Explores_Miramars_Past.html |website=The Lookout |access-date=9 December 2020 |location=Santa Monica |date=August 2, 2011 |quote=Among the visitors of yesteryear: John Muir, Mark Twain, and Robert fPeyton Carter, an entertainment figure who handwrote in ink a lengthy, nostalgic poem about the Miramar.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Peyton Carter |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141904/ |website=IMDb}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Peyton Carter |url=https://www.playbill.com/person/robert-peyton-carter-vault-0000027300 |website=Playbill |access-date=9 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Special to The New York Times |title=New Fitch Play In Boston. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1905/09/15/archives/new-fitch-play-in-boston.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=9 December 2020 |date=15 September 1905}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Peyton Carter |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/robert-peyton-carter-8407 |website=IBDB.com |access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=R.P. Carter |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/rp-carter-91607 |website=IBDB.com |access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref> who had appeared on stage as recently as March 1918 supporting [[Maude Adams]] in ''A Kiss for Cinderella''.<ref name= "NYT" /><ref>Maude Adams. ''Syracuse Herald,'' March 12, 1918, p. 8</ref> and often together in ''[[Peter Pan]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=March 3rd, 1913 playbill from the National Tour engagement of James M. Barrie's 'PETER PAN' at the Illinois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. |url=https://www.sportscards.com/item/maude-adams-peter-pan-james-m-barrie-billie-burke-1913-chicago-program/401553074564 |website=SportsCards.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209062136/https://www.sportscards.com/item/maude-adams-peter-pan-james-m-barrie-billie-burke-1913-chicago-program/401553074564 |archive-date=9 December 2020 |date=9 December 2020 |quote=The play starred MAUDE ADAMS (who originated the role of "Peter Pan") and featured ROBERT PEYTON CARTER as "Captain Hook" and "Mr. Darling". Others in the cast included MARION ABBOTT, DOROTHY DUNN, EDWIN WILSON, ANN PITTWOOD, BYRON SILVERS, JANE WREN, LOLA CLIFTON, DOROTHY CHESMAN, GEORGE DRISCOLL, MARGARET GORDON, DOROTHY TUREAK, ANNA READER, FRED TYLER, WALLACE JACKSON, ALLEN FAWCETT, JAMES L. CARHART, GUSTAVE STROWIG, STEPHEN WITTMAN, AUGUST KRAEMER, STAFFORD WINDSOR, DILLON DEASY, MADGE TREADWELL and HELEN McDONALD ..... CREDITS: Book by J. M. BARRIE; Sets designed by J. M. HEWLETT, A. T. HEWLWTT and CHARLES BASING; Produced by CHARLES FROHMAN}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=programs: 100 Years of Peter Pan |url=http://www.normanmoore.com/pan/programs.htm |website=Norman F. Moore Collection |access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Maude Adams In Famous Barnyard Play "Chantecler" Opens at Mason; "Madame X" Continues at the Burbank |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19120504.2.250&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=9 December 2020 |work=Los Angeles Herald |volume=XXXVIII|issue=190 |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection |date=4 May 1912 |quote=Miss Adams plays the cock and delivers the prologue George Henry Trader is cast as the dog. Others in the cast include William Lewers, Robert Peyton Carter, Ernest Rowan, A Lionel Hogarth, E. W. Morrison, Josephine Victor, Marlon Abbot. Margaret Gordon. Lucy Prendergast, Ada Loshell and Allen Fawcett.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Brien |first1=Mique |title=Stage Jottings |url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DT19141208.1.8&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |access-date=9 December 2020 |work=Daily Tribune |issue=8 December 1914 |publisher=Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program |location=[[Terre Haute]], [[Vigo County, Indiana]] |quote=Percy Hammond, dramatic critic of the Chicago Tribune, has not heretofore Been a very ardent admirer of Maude Adams' art, but the actress apipeaxs to have WOn him. completely by her performance in "The Legend of Leonora," which will be the piece de resistance oh tonight's double bill at the Grand. Of a rccent performance Mr. Hammond wrote: "Nothing more improbable was ever Written by a dramatist nothing more probable was ever acted by an actress. That, to me, was an important item in the enjoyment Of 'The Legend of Leonora.' Everything1 Was so possibly impossible. Miss Adartis' company had a great share In this1—Mr. Arthur Elliott as the. magistrate being particularly fine. So, indeed, was Mr. Charles Hammond in A conventional environment, and Mr. Robert Peyton Carter as an amusing Interloper excusing his intrusions by the skill of his playing.}}</ref><br />
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* {{Gutenberg author | id=7010| name=Anna Alice Chapin}}<br />
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* [https://www.google.com/search?q=inauthor:%22Anna+Alice+Chapin%22&tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r Anna Alice Chapin] - free eBooks at Google Books<br />
* {{cite web |title=Portrait of Anna Alice Chapin |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-portrait-of-anna-alice-chapin-163322526.html |website=Alamy |language=en}}<br />
* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137896032/anna-alice-chapin_carter Anna Alice Chapin Carter] at [[findagrave]]<br />
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