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xii, 424 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 21 cm. |
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Illustrated lining-papers. |
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"Almost all of the reviews and essays in this volume have previously been printed in newspaper or magazines, the majority of them being part of a weekly record of the New York stage, contributed during the past six years to the daily press." |
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Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Playing the Piper -- "Kindling" -- An Honest Play -- Warfield in the Spirit World -- As Augustus Thomas Thinks -- Broadway Discovers the Arabian Nights -- Chewing Gum and Reform -- A Quaint Tale from the Orient -- Belasco and Hypnotism -- What Bishops Do in Their Youth -- Adventures of a Soul at the Winter Garden -- Holding the Mirror Up to Art -- Mr. Cohan's Belief in Miracles -- A Victory of Unpretentiousness -- The Song of Songs, Which is Sheldon's -- The Poor Working Girl Suffers Again -- "The Unchastened Woman," a Real Character Study -- The Easy Lot of the Stage Hero -- Don Juan Redivivus -- Mrs. Fiske Among the Mennonites -- A Little Side-Street in Arcady -- A Little Flyer in Joy -- An Intimate Theater and an Unusual Play -- Bernstein and Belasco at their Best -- Maude Adams as a Murderess -- "The Phantom Rival" and Miss Crews -- Barker Brings the New Stage-Craft -- A Few Moralizings from "The Weavers" -- A Twentieth-Century Tragedy .... -- On Finding the Joke in "Othello" -- Miss Anglin and the Bard -- Do You Believe in Gold Fairies? -- "The Tempest" without Scenery -- Our Comedy of Bad Manners -- The Real Foes of the Serious Drama -- George Arliss -- A Study in Acting -- What is a Good Play? --The Man of Letters and the New Art of the Theater -- What is Entertainment? -- A Quiet Evening in the Theater -- Middle-Aged Moralizing for Yeasty Youngsters -- On Letting the Players Alone -- The Teaching of Shakespeare in the Schools -- The Vexed Question of Personality -- The Lesson of the Washington Square Players. |
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Theater -- United States.
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Actors -- United States.
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Actresses -- United States.
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Actresses. (OCoLC)fst00796328
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Actors. (OCoLC)fst00796296
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Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957. Plays and players. Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd Co., 1916 (OCoLC)575680445 |
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