Author: George Randolph ChesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Get-rich-quick Wallingford
Author: George Randolph ChesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Author: George ChesterPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040495897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Cosmopolitan
Author: Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Author: George R. ChesterPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511412513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Get Rich Quick Wallingford" from George Randolph Chester. American writer (1869-1824).
Get-rich-quick-Wallingford
Author: Silent Serial Sensations
Author: Barbara Tepa LupackPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501748203
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, Silent Serial Sensations offers a fascinating account of the dynamic early film industry. As Barbara Tepa Lupack demonstrates, the Wharton brothers were behind some of the most profitable and influential productions of the era, including The Exploits of Elaine and The Mysteries of Myra, which starred such popular performers as Pearl White, Irene Castle, Francis X. Bushman, and Lionel Barrymore. Working from the independent film studio they established in Ithaca, New York, Ted and Leo turned their adopted town into "Hollywood on Cayuga." By interweaving contemporary events and incorporating technological and scientific innovations, the Whartons expanded the possibilities of the popular serial motion picture and defined many of its conventions. A number of the sensational techniques and character types they introduced are still being employed by directors and producers a century later.
Supplement, 1953
Author: Isabel S. MonroPublisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Author: Elizabeth T. CraftPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197550401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor George M. Cohan (1878-1942) definitively shaped the burgeoning genre of musical comedy and the institution of Broadway in the early twentieth century. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy" and is memorialized with a statue in Times Square. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. His songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. This book, the first on Cohan in fifty years and the first scholarly study on the subject, is not a biography but rather situates Cohan as a central figure of his day, placing his multifaceted contributions within overlapping historical and cultural contextual webs to examine his wide-ranging cultural impact. Chapters interweave discussion of his songs and shows with explorations of the roles he played in public life-entertainer, Broadway magnate, Irish American, celebrity, and, above all, emblem of patriotism. This approach offers not only a fuller understanding of his shows and career but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States"--
Author: Frank Crane
Author: