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The Hanlon Brothers

Author : Mark Cosdon
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386585
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Hanlon Brothers written by Mark Cosdon and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hanlons—a family of six brothers from Manchester, England—were one of the world’s premiere performing troupes in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet their legacy has been mostly forgotten. In The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833–1931, Mark Cosdon carefully documents the careers of this talented family and enumerates their many contributions to modern popular entertainment. As young men, the Hanlons stunned audiences all over the world with their daring acrobatic feats. After a tragic accident severely injured one brother (and indirectly led to his suicide in a manner achievable only by someone with considerable acrobatic talents), they moved into the safer arena of spectacle pantomime, where they became the rage of Parisian popular theatre. They achieved fame with their uproariously funny and technically astonishing production of Le Voyage en Suisse. After settling permanently in the northeastern United States, they developed two more full-length pantomimes, Fantasma and Superba. The three shows toured for more than thirty years, a testament to their popularity and to the Hanlons’ impressive business acumen. The book’s illustrations—including sketches of their performances, studio photographs of the Hanlons, and posters for all three of their major pantomimes—are essential to the understanding of their work. The Hanlon Brothers is painstakingly researched yet accessible and engaging. Cosdon has managed to provide a thorough and engrossing account of the Hanlons’ lives and careers, which will no doubt help to reestablish their legacy in the world of popular entertainment.

The Hanlon Brothers

Author : John Alexander McKinven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hanlon Brothers written by John Alexander McKinven and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vaudeville old & new

Author : Frank Cullen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415938538
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Vaudeville old & new written by Frank Cullen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conscience

Author : Louisa Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101515309
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Conscience written by Louisa Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Thomas and his brothers' upbringing prepared them for a life of service-but their calls to conscience threatened to tear them apart Conscience is Louisa Thomas's beautifully written account of the remarkable Thomas brothers at the turn of the twentieth century. At a time of trial, each brother struggled to understand his obligation to his country, family, and faith. Centered around the story of the eldest, Norman Thomas (later the six-time Socialist candidate for president), the book explores the difficult decisions the four brothers faced with the advent of World War I. Sons of a Presbyterian minister and grandsons of missionaries, they shared a rigorous moral upbringing, a Princeton education, and a faith in the era's spirit of hope. Two became soldiers. Ralph enlisted right away, heeding President Woodrow Wilson's call to fight for freedom. A captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, he was ultimately wounded in France. Arthur, the youngest, was less certain about the righteousness of the cause but sensitive to his obligation as a citizen-and like so many men eager to have a chance to prove himself. The other two were pacifists. Evan became a conscientious objector, protesting conscription; when the truce was signed on November 11, 1918, he was in solitary confinement. Norman left his ministry in the tenements of East Harlem, New York, and began down the course he would follow for the rest of his life, fighting for civil liberties, social justice, and greater equality, and against violence as a method of change. Conscience reveals the tension among responsibilities, beliefs, and desires, between ideas and actions-and, sometimes, between brothers. Conscience moves from the gothic buildings of Princeton to the tenements of New York City, from the West Wing of the White House to the battlefields of France, tracking how four young men navigated a period of great uncertainty and upheaval. A Thomas family member herself (Norman was Louisa's great grandfather), Thomas proposes that there is something we might recover from the brothers' debates about conscience: a way of talking about personal liberty and social obligation, about being true to oneself and to one another.

Munsey's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Munsey's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Munsey's Magazine for ...

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Munsey's Magazine for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Circus Bodies

Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134331215
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Circus Bodies written by Peta Tait and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.

The Law Journal Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law Journal Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Olympians of the Sawdust Circle

Author : William L. Slout
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809513102
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Olympians of the Sawdust Circle written by William L. Slout and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.

How Boston Played

Author : Stephen Hardy
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332188
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book How Boston Played written by Stephen Hardy and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether consciously molding the city through the construction of public spaces or developing social ties through organizations such as athletic clubs, Bostonians of all classes participated in recreation-based community building, often at cross-purposes. Elite Bostonians, for instance, promoted the establishment of parks as a healthy alternative to unsavory activities, such as drinking and gambling, that they associated with the city's vast new pool of immigrants. They were soon forced to compromise, however, with citizens who were less interested in the rhetoric of moral uplift than in using the parks for competitive athletics and commercial amusements."--BOOK JACKET.

Black Cyclists

Author : Robert J. Turpin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056612
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Black Cyclists written by Robert J. Turpin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against white competitors. Robert J. Turpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport’s early days through the cementing of Jim Crow laws during the Progressive Era. As Turpin shows, Black cyclists used the bicycle not only as a vehicle but as a means of social mobility--a mobility that attracted white ire. Prominent Black cyclists like Marshall “Major” Taylor and Kitty Knox fought for equality amidst racist and increasingly pervasive restrictions. But Turpin also tells the stories of lesser-known athletes like Melvin Dove, whose actions spoke volumes about his opposition to the color line, and Hardy Jackson, a skilled racer forced to turn to stunt riding in vaudeville after Taylor became the only non-white permitted to race professionally in the United States. Eye-opening and long overdue, Black Cyclists uses race, technology, and mobility to explore a forgotten chapter in cycling history.

Crocker-Langley San Francisco Business Directory ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Crocker-Langley San Francisco Business Directory ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 2156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081087833X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.

Dory Fantasmagory: The Real True Friend

Author : Abby Hanlon
Publisher : Dial Books
ISBN 13 : 0525428666
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Dory Fantasmagory: The Real True Friend written by Abby Hanlon and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dory, a highly imaginative youngest child, makes a new friend at school but her brother and sister are sure Rosabelle is imaginary, just like all of Dory's other friends.

The Edison Kinetogram

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Edison Kinetogram written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Motion Picture Series and Sequels

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928946
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Motion Picture Series and Sequels written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order, lists some 906 English Language motion pictures, from 1899 to 1990, when the book was initially published. A brief plot description is given for each series entry, followed by the individual film titles with corresponding years, directors and performers. Animated pictures, documentaries and concert films are not included but movies released direct to video are.

Certain Artists

Author : J.-K. Huysmans
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1912868679
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Certain Artists written by J.-K. Huysmans and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain Artists makes for compelling reading. Huysmans’ idiosyncratic assessments throw light on his aesthetic preoccupations, past and present, and hint at the spiritual journey he was about to undertake. It includes over 140 black and white illustrations, as well as an introduction, setting the book in the context of its time, comprehensive notes, and a glossary of the artists mentioned. First published in 1889, but never before translated into English, this second collection of J.-K. Huysmans’ art criticism serves as a companion to the author’s iconoclastic Modern Art (L’Art moderne) of 1883. Unlike the earlier volume, Huysmans wastes little time lambasting the art of the establishment, the Academic painters whose work had lined the annual Salon for years. Instead, he concentrates on a series of his own artistic enthusiasms, which he explores with his trademark spleen and invective. There are extended analyses of Edgar Degas’s controversial portraits of women at their toilette; of Odilon Redon’s monstrous and disturbing engravings, of Gustave Moreau’s heiratic paintings that had such a powerful influence on Against Nature; and of Félicien Rops, whose Satanic engravings, particularly his images of women as agents of the devil, would haunt Huysmans’ subsequent novel, Là-bas, of 1891.