Author: Lillian Malcolm LarkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Won't You Come to My Tea Party?
Author: Lillian Malcolm LarkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Passing Performances
Author: Robert A. SchankePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Passing Performances gathers a range of critical and biographical essays on notable personalities whose major contributions to the stage occurred before 1969, the year of the Stonewall riots that kicked off the gay rights movement in the United States. How these theater practitioners variously "passed"-- i.e., managed unconventional sexual inclinations both on- and offstage--significantly determined the course of their personal and professional lives and thus the course of U.S. theater history. The actors, directors, producers, and agents examined here include Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, and Adah Isaacs Menken, whose personal lives and careers traded on the same-sex erotics of "true love" in the antebellum period; Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Elsie Janis, Nance O'Neil, and Alla Nazimova, whose intimate female liaisons were variously interpreted around the turn of the century; the "lavender marriages" of Alfred Lunt to Lynne Fontanne and Guthrie McClintic to Katharine Cornell; the lesbian collaborations of Margaret Webster and Cheryl Crawford; the comic antics of Monty Woolley, which negotiated codified constructions of homosexual perversion in the post-Freudian interwar years; and the on- and offstage performances of Mary Martin and Joe Cino, which resisted the paranoid enforcements of heterosexual normality in the McCarthy era. Central to these investigations are the complex connections of performances of sexuality and gender and their different implications for men and women practitioners working under pervasive sexism and homophobia. The volume also includes striking archival photographs of the performers and their performances, and an index to facilitate the cross-referencing of subjects' intersecting careers. Passing Performances will engage both general and academic readers interested in theater, gay and lesbian history, American studies, and biography. Robert A. Schanke is Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Division of Fine Arts, Central College, Iowa. Kim Marra is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Iowa.
High Performance
Author: The Alaskan Way
Author: Marilou FlinkmanPublisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 1630587753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
When Lori Wilson agreed to leave the Lower Forty and teach at a remote Alaskan logging camp, she did not realize that it would mean leaving behind televison, telephones, and grocery stores. Monk Island is surrouded by miles and miles of raw nature-including bears! Its people come from a variety of backgrounds but they have all adjusted well to the primitive living conditions. Lori, though, is clueless about wilderness survival and food preservation. She is not sure if she will last the summer, let alone the winter to come. But Alaskan people work together. And soon Lori has good friends who offer valuable tips and who welcome her loving way with their children. The only thing that bothers her now is her neighbor: cold, unfriendly Greg Jensen and his aloof cat, Marmalade. Lori may be able to tame the beast, but will she break the ice surrounding Greg's frigid heart? The challenge could cost both of their lives.
The Little White Horse
Author: Elizabeth GoudgePublisher: Lion Children's Books
ISBN: 0745967019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
'The Little White Horse was my favourite childhood book. I absolutely adored it. It had a cracking plot. It was scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine.' - JK Rowling - The Bookseller In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather travels to her family's ancestral home, Moonacre Manor, to live with her uncle Sir Benjamin. She immediately feels right at home with her kind and funny uncle and meets a wonderful set of new friends â but she quickly learns that beneath all this beauty and comfort, a past feud haunts Moonacre Manor and itâs her destiny to right the wrongs of her ancestors and restore the peace to Moonacre Valley. A beautifully written fantasy story filled with magic, a Moon Princess, and a mysterious white horse. Little White Horse and the delightful heroine, Maria Merryweather, are sure to be loved by all children.
The Saturday Evening Post
Author: Woman's Home Companion
Author: Everybody's
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Tragic Endings
Author: Brenda StrauchPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456741764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Eleven year old Gia turns to writing to help her deal with the loss of her parents, but she soon discovers that her biggest passion wields great power. Grasping the fact that her writing abilities are more than she expected, her life takes an unexpected turn which sets her and her best friend Kacie on a journey that they did not see coming. They soon find themselves in a whole Other World, and that Other World turns out to be both, the scariest time of their lives and the biggest adventure they could've ever imagined possible.
Mission Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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