The Bandbox

The Bandbox

Author: Louis Joseph Vance

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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The present novel 'The Bandbox' was written by famous American novelist, short story writer and scholar Louis Joseph Vance. It was first published in the year 1912.


The Bandbox

The Bandbox

Author: Louis Joseph Vance

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Mystery, adventure, and romance surround the search for a missing pearl necklace.


Bandbox

Bandbox

Author: Thomas Mallon

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-08-08

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0307824314

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From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age. Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe” Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent who’s lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant. As the novel opens, the defection of Harris’s most ambitious protégé has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But there’s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriber’s kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosse’s Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge. Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poignant book that brilliantly portrays the gaudiest American decade of them all.


Radio News

Radio News

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13:

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Some issues, 1943-July 1948, include separately paged and numbered section called Radio-electronic engineering edition (called Radionics edition in 1943).


Wallpaper in America

Wallpaper in America

Author: Catherine Lynn

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9780393014488

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Drawing on the extensive collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, as well as from sources across America and Europe, the author documents the changing tastes in pattern and color preferences. Richly illustrated with 102 color plates and over 245 black and white photographs, this book is a stunning achievement.


Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein

Author: Michael Broyles

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2007-10-15

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0253028663

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Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, for a time Ornstein enjoyed a kind a celebrity granted few living musicians. And then he turned his back on it all. This first, full-length biographical study draws upon interviews, journals, and letters from a wide circle of Ornstein's friends and acquaintances to track the Ornstein family as it escaped the horrors of the Russian pogroms, and it situates the Russian-Jewish-American musician as he carved out an identity amidst World War I, the flu pandemic, and the Red Scare. While telling Leo Ornstein's story, the book also illuminates the stories of thousands of immigrants with similar harrowing experiences. It also explores the immeasurable impact of his unexpected marriage in 1918 to Pauline Mallet-Prevost, a Park Avenue debutante. Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices finds Ornstein at the center of several networks that included artists John Marin, William Zorach, Leon Kroll, writers and activists Paul Rosenfeld, Waldo Frank, Edmund Wilson, and Clair Reis, the Stieglitz Circle, and a group of English composers known as the Frankfurt Five. Ornstein's story challenges directly the traditional chronology and narrative regarding musical modernism in America and its close relation to the other arts.