The Vaudeville Theatre, Building, Operation, Management
Author: Edward Renton
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 320
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Architecture and Building
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 566
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Show Starts on the Sidewalk
Author: Maggie Valentine
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780300066470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocumenting the evolution of the American movie theatre and exploring its role in American culture and architecture, this work focuses on the career of S. Charles Lee, who designed more than 300 theatres between 1920 and 1950, buildings that became prototypes for the whole country.
The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915
Author: Will Rogers
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2001-05-01
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780806133157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third volume of The Papers of Will Rogers documents the evolution of Rogers's vaudeville career as well as the newlywed life of Will and Betty Blake Rogers and the birth of their children. During these years, the Rogerses moved to New York City, and after many years of performing with Buck McKee and horse Teddy, Rogers began a solo act in vaudeville as a talking, roping cowboy. He appeared on the same playbill with such performers as Fred Stone, Eddie Cantor, and Houdini, and his stage career expanded to include an appearance in the Broadway musical comedy "The Wall Street Girl." Volume Three ends with Rogers's successful transition from vaudeville to Broadway, on the brink of his breakthrough as a star of the Ziegfeld Follies.
On the Edge of Your Seat
Author: Patricia McDonnell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0300092407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, On the edge of your seat : Popular theater and film in early-twentieth century American art, organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
T.O.B.A. Time
Author: Michelle R. Scott
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0252054032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for “tough on black artists.” But the Theater Owner’s Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott’s institutional history details T.O.B.A.’s origins and practices while telling the little-known stories of the managers, producers, performers, and audience members involved in the circuit. Looking at the organization over its eleven-year existence (1920–1931), Scott places T.O.B.A. against the backdrop of what entrepreneurship and business development meant in black America at the time. Scott also highlights how intellectuals debated the social, economic, and political significance of black entertainment from the early 1900s through T.O.B.A.’s decline during the Great Depression. Clear-eyed and comprehensive, T.O.B.A. Time is a fascinating account of black entertainment and black business during a formative era.
Coal and Culture
Author: William Faricy Condee
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2004-12-31
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0821415883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical appreciation of the opera house in the coal-mining region of Appalachia from the mid 1860s to the early 1930s, Coal and Culture demonstrates that these were multipurpose facilities that were used for traveling theater, concerts, religious events, lectures, commencements, boxing matches, benefits, union meetings, and - if the auditorium had a flat floor - skating and basketball.
Going Out
Author: David Nasaw
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999-04-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0674417593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.
The Economics of the British Stage 1800-1914
Author: Tracy C. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-06-21
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780521036856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study of economic theory in relation to the development of nineteenth-century British theatre.
Jeanne Devereaux, Prima Ballerina of Vaudeville and Broadway
Author: Kathleen Menzie Lesko
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1476627495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational vaudeville star and Broadway prima ballerina Jeanne Devereaux performed for millions across America and Europe from age eleven until her retirement at forty. A headliner at Radio City Music Hall, she led a large group of performers on one of the first USO Camp Shows tours to Japan. Born Jean Helman, she entered showbiz as a dancing trouper performing in palatial theaters and was one of the last vaudevillians surviving into the 2010s. In her later years living in Pasadena, California, Devereaux indulged her passion for research and writing in the Huntington Library's Rothenberg Reading Room, losing none of her intelligence and wit despite a fading memory. Drawing on personal interviews, theatrical programs, and her diary and letters, this biography illuminates the life and career of one of vaudeville's stars of stage, film, and television.
