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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The New York Clipper Almanac
Author: The New York Clipper Annual
Author: The New York Clipper Annual ... Containing Theatrical, Musical and Sporting Chronologies ...
Author: Puck
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Bibliographer
Author: Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville
Author: Anthony SlidePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496801083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography. Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as “The I Don't Care Girl,” male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of “freak” acts.
Author: Fred. W. Foster