Author: Harry Lee NewtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monologues
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Some Vaudeville Monologues
Author: Harry Lee NewtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monologues
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Author: Robert M. LewisPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
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.
SOME VAUDEVILLE MONOLOGUES
Author: HARRY L. NEWTONImpromptu Magic, with Patter
Author: George De LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic shows
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Gimme Them Papers!
Author: Frederick Green JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Monologues of Today
Author: Stanley SchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monologues
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
James J. Corbett
Author: Armond FieldsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786450223
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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.
Writing for Vaudeville
Author: Brett PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comedy sketches
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Author: Katharine Kavanaugh