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Tent Show - Arthur Names and His ""Famous"" Players (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Tent Show - Arthur Names and His ""Famous"" Players (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: West Texas A&M University
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Discovery Miles 5 740
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Before movie screens filled the country and television screens
filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The
traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and variety
entertainment through much of the nineteenth and into the twentieth
century. One of the last of these shows belonged to Art Names and
His "Famous" Players, a show that played to venues in Kansas,
western Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, and West Texas from about 1920
to 1945. Tent Show captures the glamour the shows held for
audiences and the hard work and financial jeopardy faced by their
performers. Donald W. Whisenhunt, whose father was one of Names's
partners, draws on family papers, letters, original documents, and
interviews to shed light on this form of entertainment. Anyone
interested in the entertainment business--or curious about life
before television and movie theaters--will find Tent Show to be an
unaffected look at this fastpaced, often unglamorous business and
the people who chose this way of life.
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