Ruth Chorpenning
Ruth Barrows Chorpenning Norris (born February 11, 1898 – died after 1977) was an American stage actress and monologuist. She originated the character "Ado Annie" in Green Grow the Lilacs. Early life and education Chorpenning was born in Springfield, Ohio and raised in Colorado and Minnesota, the daughter of John C. Chorpenning and Charlotte Barrows Chorpenning. Her mother was a teacher, poet, and playwright. She survived spinal meningitis as a baby, and her father died of tuberculosis when she was a teen. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1920, and from the School of the Theatre in 1922. Career Chorpenning appeared on Broadway in the shows The Jolly Roger (1923), Cyrano de Bergerac (1923, 1926), Charley's Aunt (1925), Sam Abramovitch (1927), Hot Pan (1928), Him (1928), Dorian Gray (1928), The International (1928), Fiesta (1929), Red Rust (1929), The Garrick Gaieties (1930), Green Grow the Lilacs (1931), Lost Boy (1932), Jamboree (1932), Marathon (1933), Ah, Wilderness! (1933), The Puritan (1936), Swing Your Lady (1936), Sun Kissed (1937), Love in My Fashion (1937), Family Portrait (1939), and Ring Around Elizabeth (1941). Caricature artist Al Hirschfeld sketched Chorpenning with other cast members of The Garrick Gaieties in 1930. Beyond her Broadway career, Chorpenning