Who s Who on the Stage 1908

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Who s Who on the Stage 1908 The Dramatic Reference Book and Biographical Dictionary of the Theatre

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Author: Browne Walter

Publisher: Wentworth Press

ISBN: 0526801387

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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The Papers of Will Rogers From vaudeville to Broadway September 1908 August 1915

The Green Room Book or Who's Who on the Stage . Edited by John Parker . 3 vols . ... Who's Who in Hollywood : The Largest Cast of International Personalities Ever Assembled . ... New York : B. W. Dodge , 1908 . Who's Who in the Theatre ...

Author: Will Rogers

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN: 0806133155

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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This 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.
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Who s Who on the Stage 1908 The Dramatic Reference Book and Biographical Dictionary of the Theatre

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Author: Walter Browne

Publisher: Palala Press

ISBN: 1356234631

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Who s Who on the Stage 1908

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Author: Walter Browne

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ISBN: 1331077583

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Excerpt from Who's Who on the Stage 1908: The Dramatic Reference Book and Biographical Dictionary of the Theatre Adams, Miss Maude (Kiskadden): Actress, was born in Salt Lake City November 11, 1872. Her father was James Kiskadden, a business man. Her mother, a well-known actress, Mrs. Annie Adams, the daughter of a Utah pioneer who claimed to come from John Quincy Adams stock, is still playing. When Maude was born, Annie Adams was leading woman at the Salt Lake Theatre, which enjoyed the special patronage of Brigham Young. Phil Margetts, an Englishman, now the proprietor of a liquor store in Salt Lake City, but formerly a popular comedian, claims the distinction of first putting Miss Maude Adams on the stage, or, rather, of carrying her there. The future star was just nine months old when a play called "The Lost Child" was being produced at the Salt Lake Theatre. She had been taken to the theatre by a nurse. Margetts was cast for the father of the lost child. At the last moment he found he was expected to fondle a rag doll. While he was lamenting this, Mrs. Kiskadden went to the wings with Maude in her arms. Margetts snatched the baby from her and dashed on to the stage. When she was five years old, in 1877, Miss Maude Adams played her first speaking part, Little Schneider, at the old Bush Theatre, San Francisco, with J. K. Emmet in one of his "Fritz" plays. She also played Chrystal in "Chums," by David Belasco, who had just risen from call boy to stage manager at the Baldwin Theatre. In the cast were James O'Neill, Lewis Morrison and the late James A. Herne. When she was six years old she was sent to school, where she remained until she was sixteen. Immediately on leaving school Miss Adams played the part of a schoolmistress in Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell," produced at the Madison Square Theatre, New York, in 1888. She afterward played in "Men and Women" and created the part of the crippled girl in "The Lost Paradise," which first attracted attention to her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

GRB NEB NotNat NYTheRe NYTheRel OCF OF REAI WhMuDr The Green Room Book or Who's Who on the Stage . Edited by John Parker . 3 vols . London : T. Sealey Clark , 1907-9 . The New Encyclopaedia Britannica , Micropaedia . 15th ed . 29 vols .

Author: Richard Irving Dodge

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN: 0806132671

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 486

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"These journals also provide insight into Dodge's character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne R. Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Green Room Book Or Who s who on the Stage

... c . , 1908 718 Benevolent Funds ( London ) 659 ( New York ) 670 Berlin , New Plays ' in , 1908 630 Theatres 709 ... 655 Incorporated Stage Society ( Lon . don ) 666 Index to Biographies xxix Institutes , Miscellaneous Halls , & c .

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ISBN: UCAL:B3569438

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Who's Who on the Stage 1908. New York: B. W. Dodge, 1908. Bryan, George B. American Theatrical Regulation 1607–1900: Conspectus and Texts. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. ———. Stage Deaths: A Biographical Guide to International ...

Author: James Fisher

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781538107867

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 808

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, and notable plays.
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The A to Z of American Theater

Who's Who on the Stage 1908. New York: B. W. Dodge, 1908. Bryan, George B. American Theatrical Regulation 1607–1900: Conspectus and Texts. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1993. . Stage Deaths: A Biographical Guide to International ...

Author: James Fisher

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

ISBN: 9780810870475

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 616

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The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by European modernism and as impacted by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays; music; playwrights; great performers like Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, Julia Marlowe, and E.H. Sothern; producers like David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, and Florenz Ziegfeld; critics; architects; designers; and costumes.
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Ruritania

See the entry for Hackett in Dumas Malone, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's, 1943), volume 8; and Walter Browne and E. De Roy Koch, eds., Who's Who on the Stage 1908 (New York: B. W. Dodge, 1908).

Author: Nicholas Daly

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780192573667

Category: Literary Criticism

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This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, but faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope's novel inspired stage and screen adaptations, place names, and even a board game, but it also launched a whole new subgenre, the "Ruritanian romance". The new form offered swordplay, royal romance, and splendid uniforms and gowns in such settings as Alasia, Balaria, and Cadonia. This study explores both the original appeal of The Prisoner of Zenda, and the extraordinary longevity and adaptability of the Ruritanian formula, which, it is argued, has been rooted in a lingering fascination with royalty, and the pocket kingdom's capacity to hold a looking glass up to Britain and later the United States. Individual chapters look at Hope's novel and its stage and film adaptations; at the forgotten American versions of Ruritania; at the chocolate-box principalities of the musical stage; at Cold War reworkings of the formula; and at Ruritania's recent reappearance in young adult fiction and made-for-television Christmas movies. The adventures of Ruritania have involved a diverse list of contributors, including John Buchan, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ian Fleming among the writers; Sigmund Romberg and Ivor Novello among the composers; Erich Von Stroheim and David O. Selznick among the film-makers; and Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, and Anne Hathaway among the performers.
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Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre

See Browne and Koch, Who's Who on Stage, 1908, 132; NYT, December 10, 1931, 23. 22. New York Morning Telegraph, January 22, 1901, 4. 23. Fitch, Clyde, Toddles, London script, 1906, property plot. 24. Times of London, September 5, 1906, ...

Author: Kevin Lane Dearinger

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781611479485

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 606

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Clyde Fitch was a major figure in the American theatre, influential in his time and to the playwrights who followed. A collection of Fitch’s letters published in 1924 provided a sanitized record of his life, but no major biography has since appeared. Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre: An Olive in the Cocktail is the missing piece in the study of this important playwright and his contributions to gay history in a way that gives his plays the reconsideration and revival deserved.
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Lusitania

Who's Who on the Stage, 1908: The Dramatic Reference Book and Biographical Dictionary of the Theatre, Containing Careers of Actors, Actresses, Managers and Playwrights of the American Stage. New York: B.W. Dodge, 1908. Burke, Billie.

Author: Greg King

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

ISBN: 9781466876378

Category: History

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On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I. Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes – a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her – and her gilded passengers – to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea; those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt. Now, authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania's passengers. Rarely was an era so glamorous; rarely was a ship so magnificent; and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats.
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A History of African American Theatre

Lacking proof of a stage production for The South in Slavery , it must be assumed that the author converted the script into his new passion play The ... According to Miss Irwin's capsule biography in Who's Who on the Stage 1908 ( ed .

Author: Errol Hill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521624436

Category: Drama

Page: 608

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Vaudeville old new

Wilmut, Roger, Kindly Leave the Stage!: The Story of Variety, 1919–1960, London, Methuen, 1985. ... Browne, Walter, and Koch, E. De Roy, eds., Who's Who on the Stage, 1908, New York City, Dodge, 1908. Chartier, JoAnn, and Enss, Chris, ...

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Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780415938532

Category: Entertainers

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Last of the Rinkrats and Other Stories

Brown, Walter and Koch E. De Roy , editors, Who's Who on The Stage 1908, B. W. Dodge Co. New York, 1908. Burroughs, Marie, The Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio of Stage Celebrities A.N. Marques and Company, Chicago, 1894 Ganzl, Kurt, ...

Author: Donald A. McKellar

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

ISBN: 9781426942778

Category: Fiction

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Do you consider yourself well-versed in Canadas history? Ever heard of Domagaya, the Laurentian Iroquois who saved Jacques Cartiers expedition to the New World by teaching him the cure for scurvy? Or Charles Lennox, the Governor-General who died from the bite of a pet fox? Theres the Chief Justice of Upper Canada kept a pet alligator in his historic home, and Constable Pedley of the Mounties, who transported a sick missionary hundreds of miles through the Northern Alberta wilderness to get medical help while putting his own life at risk. Learn about the American bankers yacht, the S.S. Ramona, which faithfully served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic and ended her days plying the South Seas as a shrimp boat. All of these were true heroes of Canada. A collection of little-known tales of heroism from Canadas history, Last of the Rinkrats and Other Stories tells twenty-three unforgettable true stories of Canadas unsung heroes and forgotten characters.
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Opera for the People

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (ODNB). New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. www.oxforddnb.com. Who's Who on the Stage, 1908. (WWoS). Edited by Walter Browne and E. de Roy Koch. New York: B. W. Dodge, 1908.

Author: Katherine K. Preston

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190690113

Category: Music

Page: 544

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Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.
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The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

Who's Who on the Stage, 1908. New York: B. W. Dodge, 1909. Burton, Jack. In Memoriam—Oldtime Show Biz. New York: Vantage Press, 1965. Busby, Roy. British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's Who from 1850 to the Present.

Author: Anthony Slide

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

ISBN: 9781617032509

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 630

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The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America’s preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D’Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography. Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as “The I Don’t Care Girl,” male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of “freak” acts.
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