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Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The Linking Ring
Author: A Collection of the most favorite Comic Songs sung at the Theatres Royal and Public Meetings by Messrs. Johnstone, Fawcett, Emery, Matthews, etc
Author: The Young Man's Own Book
Author: The Jealous Husband
Author: Gustav KobbéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A System of Etiquette with Maxims of Prudence, and Some Observation on Duelling
Author: John TruslerClown Scenes
Author: Tristan RemyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493082078
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The intimacy of the one-ring circus produced the classic clown routines that flourished until the mid-twentieth century and then disappeared with the rise of the grand circus. They have been lost until now. By seeking out the little band of surviving clowns who worked in the old tradition and setting down their scenes, Tristan Rémy, the eminent circus historian, has rescued a theatrical treasure. Thanks to Rémy's persistence, the forty-eight scenes presented here contain not only the spoken words but the manner of line delivery and the physical turns. So they remain superbly suitable for performance. Most of them are written for just three actors—the white-faced clown, August the stooge, and the supercilious ringmaster. Sets are unnecessary. And their combination of the verbal with the physical has timeless appeal. Bernard Sahlins's translation is masterfully attuned to present-day audiences. In his foreword, Mr. Sahlins notes that these scenes have been continually remounted in Europe, attesting to their fundamental vitality and universality. “Clearly there is a debt, witting and unwitting, owed to the clown of the ring by the great comedians of our century. With this book these scenes and the clowns who invented and played them now take their honored place in our theatrical legacy.”
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
The Chronicle of Hats in Enjoyable Quotes
Author: Ida TomshinskyPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479799092
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
This is a standard reference for anyone who is interested in the history of essential fashion accessory – the hat. The hats always were used to protect, to express identity, to express identity, and to attract or to influence others. Main developments in the timeline of hats from ancient past to modern present, including the phenomenon of the must-have accessory covering the top of the head.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: USA Patent OfficeThe Radetzky March
Author: Joseph RothPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590208447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is “full of psychological penetration and tragic force” (The New Yorker). The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows three generations of the privileged von Trotta family as Europe advances inexorably toward World War I. With a breadth and richness that draws comparison to Tolstoy, it encompasses the entire social fabric of Austro-Hungarian society. Shot through with dark humor and tragic irony, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times. “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.” —Nadine Gordimer