Skinner, Edith

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found: Wikipedia, June 14, 2017(Edith Skinner; Edith Skinner (22 September 1902--25 July 1981) was a vocal coach and a consultant to actors; her book, Speak With Distinction, has been reprinted several times; Skinner was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, in eastern Canada, to Herbert Havelock Warman and Agnes Lynn Orr; she attended the Leland Powers School for the Spoken Word in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1923; there she met Margaret Prendergast McLean, and through her, William Tilly, whose assistant she became in 1926; she studied at Columbia University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 1930 and a master's in 1931; from 1937 to 1974, Skinner was on the faculty of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh; she also taught at the Juilliard Theater Center in New York, and at the University of Wisconsin; she died in Milwaukee on 25 July 1981) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Skinner