{"id":909,"date":"2012-10-23T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=909"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:17:10","slug":"campbell-c-lawton-1896-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"CAMPBELL, CHARLES LAWTON, 1896-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playwright and advertising writer. Born&#8211;April 17, 1896, Montgomery. Parents&#8211; Charles L. and Myrtle (Booth) Campbell. Grew up on Sayre Street in Montgomery. Education&#8211; Attended Lanier High School; Princeton University, 1916. Worked as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce; served in the U.S. Army during both World Wars, holding the rank of colonel in World War II; worked for a New York advertising agency; advertising director for U.S. Rubber Company; advertising director of General Foods Corporation. Charter member and \u00a0chairman of the Board of the American National Theater and Academy. Died 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Birmingham Public Library and at Alabama Department of Archives and History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bachelor Queen (a play). 1927.<\/p>\n<p>Foolish Sunset (a play). S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Gestures; a Comedy in One Act. New York; s.n., 1925.<\/p>\n<p>The Girl Who Slipped (a play). S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Malissa (a play). S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Isabella (a play). S.l.; s.n., 1927.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare Smiles, a Comedy in One Act. New York; D. Appleton and Co., 1924.<\/p>\n<p>Solid South, a Play in Three Acts. New York; S. French, 1931.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of Charles Lawton Campbell are held by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Playwright and advertising writer. Born&#8211;April 17, 1896, Montgomery. Parents&#8211; Charles L. and Myrtle (Booth) Campbell. Grew up on Sayre Street in Montgomery. Education&#8211; Attended Lanier High School; Princeton University, 1916. Worked as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce; served in the U.S. Army during both World Wars, holding the rank of colonel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6807,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}