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Author: M. J. York
Publisher:
Published: 2024-07-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781645823254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Showcases the work and achievements of 12 of the world's most influential entertainers. Each spread contains fascinating facts about each entertainer and how their accomplishments helped change the world"--
Author: Margaret Talbot
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1594631883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the life and career of her father, writer Margaret Talbot tells the story of the rise of popular culture through a personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. In her impeccably researched narrative--a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood.--From publisher description.
Author: Steven Stolman
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2015-03-09
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 142363716X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMenus and anecdotes give away one man’s secrets for entertaining in style. Steven Stolman has a gregarious personality. He loves to entertain: cocktail parties in Palm Beach, football game-day gatherings in Wisconsin, family Passover Sedars in Connecticut, and dinner parties in his New York apartment. “Of all our friends, we have the smallest places, yet we seem to do more entertaining than anyone.” It’s about the people and the food, he says. He also loves old community and church cookbooks from the 1950s to the ’70s. And these are his inspirations for party food: dips and cheese spreads with crackers, family recipes for delicious roasts, breakfast casseroles, and desserts. What Stolman confesses is that he hates hostess gifts and isn’t afraid to say so. He advises women not to take a purse to a party and just “tuck it behind here” to avoid holding it—thanks for ruining my furniture arrangement! He advises about the importance of having silver serving pieces and how to dress for a cocktail party or a dinner party (at least try!). And he confesses that even when he has hired servers to pass hors d’oeuvres, he can’t help but carry a tray around himself! This book will give any novice party host ideas and confidence, and it will inspire seasoned hosts to simplify and enjoy the party. Steven Stolman is the author of 40 Years of Fabulous and Scalamandré: Haute Décor. He divides his time among homes in Palm Beach, New York, and Milwaukee.
Author: Richard Zoglin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-11-04
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1439140278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the life and career of comedian, actor, and entertainer Bob Hope.
Author: John Fricke
Publisher: M J F Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781567312041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe diminutive performer with the unique magical effect on audiences remains the stuff of legend more than twenty years after her death. Her magic is captured in this magnificent book, graced with 600 photographs, many never before seen.
Author: Klaus Hödl
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-09-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 178920030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city’s persistent bouts of antisemitism. This fascinating study explores how Jewish artists, performers, and impresarios reacted to prejudice, showing how they articulated identity through performative engagement rather than anchoring it in origin and descent. In this way, they attempted to transcend a racialized identity even as they indelibly inscribed their Jewish existence into the cultural history of the era.
Author: John Osborne
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
Published: 1998-12-31
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780573112065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis play about the life and work of a second-rate music hall comic (brilliantly created by Sir Laurence Olivier in the original production) and staged only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, secured John Osborne's reputation and has become a classic of 20th century drama.
Author: Alan Schroeder
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1438100868
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* Critically acclaimed biographies of history's most notable African-Americans * Straightforward and objective writing * Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia * Essential for multicultural studies
Author: Elsie M. Wilbor
Publisher:
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmund Morris
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-11-24
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 0307777812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.”—San Francisco Chronicle WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • “[Theodore Rex] is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams’s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.”—Times Literary Supplement Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy, and his monument millions of acres of protected parks and forest. Theodore Rex ends with TR leaving office, still only fifty years old, his future reputation secure as one of our greatest presidents.
