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Author : Harry Lee Newton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Some Vaudeville Monologues written by Harry Lee Newton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : HARRY L. NEWTON
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book SOME VAUDEVILLE MONOLOGUES written by HARRY L. NEWTON and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887488
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book From Traveling Show to Vaudeville written by Robert M. Lewis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes—all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.
Author : George De Lawrence
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Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Impromptu Magic, with Patter written by George De Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Green Johnson
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Gimme Them Papers! written by Frederick Green Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Schell
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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Monologues of Today written by Stanley Schell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Armond Fields
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786450223
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book James J. Corbett written by Armond Fields and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distinguished groups of people: the professional boxing public, who celebrated him as America's greatest boxing champion, and the world of popular theater admirers, who revered him as one of Broadway's top vaudeville headliners. Corbett was uniquely instrumental in making boxing and popular theater both justifiable commercial enterprises, to be enjoyed by all classes of people. He became America's first national sports hero and went on to formulate the theater world's star system. This is the first definitive biography of the man who knocked out heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, and who also knocked out audiences who flocked to see him in vaudeville and silent pictures. The focus herein is on the real man, the influences on his life, and the social and commercial environment within which he functioned. The author reveals that Corbett was a complex, driven, enigmatic man whose dedicated participation in popular entertainment changed American social values and mores, and at the same time reinvented the notion of a national hero.
Author : Brett Page
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writing for Vaudeville written by Brett Page and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago Public Library
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Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Kavanaugh
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Queen of Diamonds ... written by Katharine Kavanaugh and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628467266
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Ain't That a Knee-Slapper written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors. In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century, author Tim Hollis traces the evolution of this classic American form of humor in the mass media, beginning with the golden age of radio, when such comedians as Bob Burns, Judy Canova, and Lum and Abner kept listeners laughing. The book then moves into the motion pictures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, when the established radio stars enjoyed second careers on the silver screen and were joined by live-action renditions of the comic strip characters Li'l Abner and Snuffy Smith, along with the much-loved Ma and Pa Kettle series of films. Hollis explores such rural sitcoms as The Real McCoys in the late 1950s and from the 1960s, The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Hee Haw, and many others. Along the way, readers are taken on side trips into the world of animated cartoons and television commercials that succeeded through a distinctly rural sense of fun. While rural comedy fell out of vogue and networks sacked shows in the early 1970s, the emergence of such hits as The Dukes of Hazzard brought the genre whooping back to the mainstream. Hollis concludes with a brief look at the current state of rural humor, which manifests itself in a more suburban, redneck brand of standup comedy.
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Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Plays of the 19th and 20th Centuries written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert F. McLeanJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184797
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book American Vaudeville as Ritual written by Albert F. McLeanJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers—which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.
Author : Armond Fields
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786407026
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Eddie Foy written by Armond Fields and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just a century ago Eddie Foy was the consummate stage comedian. A versatile performer, Foy contributed to the development of popular theater from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, from poverty-inspired Irish two-acts to lavish musical comedies. This first-ever biography of Foy tells the story of his indigent childhood in New York's Bowery and in Chicago, his tough uphill climb as a variety artist at Western outposts, his success in vaudeville and Broadway, and his arrival as a national icon with the Seven Little Foys. Foy's career mirrored the growth of popular theater entertainment in America. Exhaustively researched, this work contains many rare personal photographs from the Foy family archives.
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Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Writer's Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000815986
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism written by Catherine Burroughs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women’s consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artistry. The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural History, while adding new dimensions to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
