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Author : Albert Edward Wilson
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book King Panto written by Albert Edward Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Anthony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714074
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The King's Jester written by Barry Anthony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was. They had seen him live on the music hall stage, listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics in some of the earliest moving pictures. Even King Edward VII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan Leno 'The King's Jester'. But his path to fame was a hard one: he journeyed from being a child performer in the London and Liverpool slums to a chaotic career in hard-bitten northern variety theatres. Dan became the nation's favourite comedian, but as one of the first mass media stars he suffered from this continual exposure and died at the early age of forty three. Drawing on many previously unused sources, this is first, authoritative, biography of Dan Leno. Only Charlie Chaplin, often compared to Dan in style and appearance, was to occupy a similar position in the hearts of the British public. In telling the full story of Dan's life and career on the stage and screen, Barry Anthony brings to life the everyday life of Victorian Britain, as well as Dan's unique brand of humour and its resonance with later comedians such as Spike Milligan and the Monty Python team.
Author : Clement Scott
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Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Theatre written by Clement Scott and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
Author : Maureen Hughes
Publisher : Remember When
ISBN 13 : 1844680770
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book A History of Pantomime written by Maureen Hughes and published by Remember When. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each Christmas entire families in the UK troop off to see, what one could almost say is 'the obligatory'. annual entertainment, known as Pantomime. It is a traditional, seasonal way of life for the British envied the world over, and one which only the British seem to understand! Pantomime serves both to entertain and to introduce each new generation to the joys of theatre in the most unique of ways, for this is not a type of theatre one merely watches, but one in which the audience participate often in the most seemingly boisterous and bizarre of ways. The whole experience is steeped in tradition, traditions which only the British seem to understand, which is probably why we are proud to call it a 'British Experience.'??In A History of Pantomime Maureen Hughes takes a brief look at the history of Pantomime as well as taking a humorous look at some of the above mentioned traditions; she also gives a synopsis of each of the well-known Pantomimes whilst exploring the eccentric world of the characters who appear in them. There is also a short piece on just some of the most well-known and loved of the actors who each Christmas take on the part of Pantomime Dames across the UK, as well as a look at others who have contributed to this magical world of fun and eccentricity. It is thought by some to be frivolous and pointless piece of theatre, but a browse through this informative book and you will soon find that Pantomime is an art form all of its own, requiring the most dedicated and talented of actors/actresses who are prepared to honour and perpetuate this wonderful tradition as it is passed down from one generation to the next.??As seen in The Telegraph and the Sunday Post (Glasgow).
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Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The ATO Palm written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book The Theater written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Royal Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Levi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391473
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The World of Lucha Libre written by Heather Levi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters, and reporters; she also apprenticed with a retired luchador (wrestler). Drawing on her insider’s perspective, she explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. Levi argues that the broad appeal of lucha libre lies in its capacity to stage contradictions at the heart of Mexican national identity: between the rural and the urban, tradition and modernity, ritual and parody, machismo and feminism, politics and spectacle. Levi considers lucha libre in light of scholarship about sport, modernization, and the formation of the Mexican nation-state, and in connection to professional wrestling in the United States. She examines the role of secrecy in wrestling, the relationship between wrestlers and the characters they embody, and the meanings of the masks worn by luchadors. She discusses male wrestlers who perform masculine roles, those who cross-dress and perform feminine roles, and female wrestlers who wrestle each other. Investigating the relationship between lucha libre and the mass media, she highlights the history of the sport’s engagement with television: it was televised briefly in the early 1950s, but not again until 1991. Finally, Levi traces the circulation of lucha libre symbols in avant-garde artistic movements and its appropriation in left-wing political discourse. The World of Lucha Libre shows how a sport imported from the United States in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican cultural authenticity.
Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223492
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Exiles in Hollywood written by Gene D. Phillips and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with five European film directors who were forced to remain in exile in the wake of the rise of Hitler and who subsequently enriched the American motion picture industry with a reservoir of new talent that had been nurtured in Europe. The directors treated are Fritz Lang, William Wyler, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder.
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Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Theatre World written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elaine C Smith
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1907195211
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Nothing Like a Dame written by Elaine C Smith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How did I end up here?' A question Elaine C. Smith asked herself when sitting in the dressing-room of a top theatre in London's West End, about to go on stage with one of the UK's most successful plays. In Nothing Like a Dame, Elaine reflects on a 50-year journey that took her to the peak of the entertainment world. She recounts her long struggle to make it in a male-dominated, working-class society when women were supposed to just shut up and stay thin, especially in the sexist world of theatre and television, where she was told, 'Look, women just aren't funny.' Despite many highs and lows, she proceeded to forge a stellar career in show business, hosting her own TV series and becoming a household name thanks to her comic portrayal of Mary Nesbitt, the long-suffering wife in the award-winning BBC comedy Rab C. Nesbitt. Nothing Like a Dame is a heart-warming memoir: candid, outspoken, hilarious and at times deeply sad.
Author : Jeff Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579255
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book King Twist written by Jeff Nuttall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Wigan in 1901 and a childhood friend of George Formby, who was later to become his chief rival, Frank Randle was one of the greatest music-hall comedians of all time. His theatre career started in 1916, when he appeared as an acrobatic artist under the name of Arthur Twist. It was not until the thirties, however, that he achieved his greatest popularity and notoriety as a comedian whose wild, manic temperament introduced a fresh note of invention into popular entertainment. For ten years he ran his own touring company, Randle’s Scandals, playing to enthusiastic audiences all over the country. He also made a number of shoe-string movies and was the star of Blackpool’s most distinguished summer-season show. During the early fifties his health declined and he died in Blackpool in 1957. Originally published in 1978, Jeff Nuttall’s account of Frank Randle is both a portrait of a ‘very, very, funny man’ and the story of his own search as he pieced that portrait together by talking to Randle’s acquaintances, friends, colleagues and relations. What emerges from his narrative is a beautifully recorded analysis of the ways in which working-class values are expressed in popular entertainment and are thus ritualised by it. The image Nuttall builds of Randle also allows him to explore the perennial theme of the clown as outsider and, with the passing of Randle, he acknowledges the passing of a certain naïve optimism which Randle so expressively embodied.
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Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Sphere written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Gillon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144565461X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh's Festival and King's Theatres Through Time written by Jack Gillon and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces the history of two of Edinburgh's best-loved theatres, the changes that have taken place inside and out, and many of the legendary acts that have appeared over the years.
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Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book London American written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Kester
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573690204
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Problem-projects in Acting written by Katharine Kester and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1937 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
