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This book provides an expert view into the current technologies
that are revolutionizing the field of solid organ transplantation.
This unique book provides insight into progress made in areas
spanning robotic surgery to tissue engineering and also gives a
glimpse into what may lie ahead for this innovative specialty.
Topics covered include nanotherapy, machine perfusion, artificial
organ development, robotics in transplant surgery, mobile health
technology, stem cell therapy, and ex vivo repair of organs. This
is an ideal book for biomedical engineers, physicians and surgeons,
general and transplant surgeons, medical students, medical and
surgical trainees, and transplant procurement technicians.
W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius,
legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter
to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his
little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a
major influence on his comedy and screen presence.
"Vaudeville Wars" illuminates the exciting and intriguing story
about how the tycoons of the two most powerful circuits,
Keith-Albee in the East and the Orpheum in the West, conspired to
control the big time. To create their national network of hundreds
of vaudeville theaters, B. F. Keith and Edward Albee and the
Orpheum's Morris Meyerfeld and Martin Beck, used cutthroat tactics
to suppress rival owners and to squash performers' rights and the
White Rats union through strikebreaking and blacklisting. After the
two circuits merged, Joseph P. Kennedy masterminded its takover
through clever stock transactions and then linked the company to
RCA to form Radio Keith Orpheum. When the big-time venues,
including the famous Palace, became RKO sound movie theaters, the
curtain descended on the vaudeville wars. Overall, the big time's
heyday from 1890 to 1920 was a trade off--a legacy mixed with
delights and duplicity, high points of artistic creation and low
points of unending strife. Daring, ingenious impresarios left their
mark on the history of show business by developing a coast-to-coast
chain of luxurious theaters that presented an exhilarating popular
amusement that appealed to a broad range of Americans. At their
theaters thousands of talented vaudevillians were given the
opportunity to appear on stage before crowds of adoring fans.
Despite the battles between the performers and the circuit moguls,
the vaudeville wars forged an electrifying entertainment that at
its zenith brought joy to millions. For more information
visit http: //www.vaudevillewars.com
"Vaudeville Wars" illuminates the exciting and intriguing story
about how the tycoons of the two most powerful circuits,
Keith-Albee in the East and the Orpheum in the West, conspired to
control the big time. To create their national network of hundreds
of vaudeville theaters, B. F. Keith and Edward Albee and the
Orpheum's Morris Meyerfeld and Martin Beck, used cutthroat tactics
to suppress rival owners and to squash performers' rights and the
White Rats union through strikebreaking and blacklisting. After the
two circuits merged, Joseph P. Kennedy masterminded its takover
through clever stock transactions and then linked the company to
RCA to form Radio Keith Orpheum. When the big-time venues,
including the famous Palace, became RKO sound movie theaters, the
curtain descended on the vaudeville wars. Overall, the big time's
heyday from 1890 to 1920 was a trade off--a legacy mixed with
delights and duplicity, high points of artistic creation and low
points of unending strife. Daring, ingenious impresarios left their
mark on the history of show business by developing a coast-to-coast
chain of luxurious theaters that presented an exhilarating popular
amusement that appealed to a broad range of Americans. At their
theaters thousands of talented vaudevillians were given the
opportunity to appear on stage before crowds of adoring fans.
Despite the battles between the performers and the circuit moguls,
the vaudeville wars forged an electrifying entertainment that at
its zenith brought joy to millions. For more information visit
http: //www.vaudevillewars.com
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