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Born Isidore Iskowitz in 1892, Eddie Cantor became one of the
greatest entertainers of Depression-era America. The star of such
films as Roman Scandals (1933) and Kid Millions (1934), he
symbolized the ordinary person who falls into extraordinary
circumstances. Off-screen or on, Cantor exuded a spirit of charity
and hopefulness. His life was marked by numerous humanitarian
achievements and a strong commitment to political and social
causes. On October 29, 1995, as part of a nationwide celebration of
the 75th anniversary of radio, he was posthumously inducted into
the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast
Communication. Despite his significant achievements and enormous
popularity with his public, Eddie Cantor is today among the most
overlooked performers of the golden age of American entertainment.
This reference book provides detailed information on his extensive
stage, film, radio, television, and musical work and includes an
extensive bibliography. The volume begins with a carefully
documented biography that discusses Cantor's upbringing, his rise
as a vaudeville star, his social and political activism, and his
success as a film, radio, and television personality. A chronology
then highlights the most memorable achievements in his remarkable
career. The chapters that follow are devoted to his stage, film,
radio, and television work. Each chapter lists Cantor's
performances in a particular medium and provides detailed material,
such as cast and credit information, plot synopses, review
excerpts, and a critical commentary. The volume also includes
entries for his various recordings and for sheet music bearing his
name or image. Appendices cite his newsreel appearances and
cartoons featuring his likeness. An extensive bibliography of works
by and about Cantor concludes the book.
From the early days of his stage career in the decades before World
War I through his unparalleled comeback after World War II, Al
Jolson was billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer." This book
provides an insightful sketch of Jolson's life and a comprehensive
record of his extensive career. The volume begins with a biography
which discusses the factors that shaped Jolson's development as a
performer. A chronology of the chief events in his life follows.
Chapters are then devoted to his stage, film, recording, and
broadcast career. Each of these chapters contains annotated entries
for Jolson's performances. A bibliography follows, with entries for
books, periodicals, and newspaper articles. Appendices list stage
shows based on Jolson's life, along with newsreels, cartoons,
awards, and endorsements related to his career. Name and title
indexes conclude the work and add to its reference value.
Often referred to as the actor's actor, Spencer Tracy's subtle
introspection and thoroughly naturalistic style continue to impress
actors and audiences alike. He began his career on the stage, and
then went on to attain considerable acclaim as a film star for Fox
Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won back-to-back Academy Awards
in 1937 and 1938, began a legendary personal and professional
relationship with Katharine Hepburn, and worked as an independent
film star in the 1950s and 1960s.
This volume provides detailed information for Tracy's many
performances in film, radio, television, and drama. The book begins
with a short biography that summarizes Tracy's professional
development. The chapters that follow chronicle his fascinating
career. Each chapter is devoted to his work in a particular medium
and provides entries for his individual performances. Entries
present cast and credit information, plot synopses, reviews, and
commentary. An annotated bibliography discusses sources of
additional information about Tracy, and photos illustrate his life
and work.
An original history of six generations of an African American
family living in Washington, DC Between Freedom and Equality begins
with the life of Capt. George Pointer, an enslaved African who
purchased his freedom in 1793 while working for George Washington's
Potomac Company. It follows the lives of six generations of his
descendants as they lived and worked on the banks of the Potomac,
in the port of Georgetown, and in a rural corner of the nation's
capital. By tracing the story of one family and their experiences,
Between Freedom and Equality offers a moving and inspiring look at
the challenges that free African Americans have faced in
Washington, DC, since the district's founding. The story begins
with an 1829 letter from Pointer that is preserved today in the
National Archives. Inspired by Pointer's letter, authors Barbara
Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green began researching this
remarkable man who was a boat captain and supervisory engineer for
the Potomac canal system. What they discovered about the lives of
Pointer and his family provides unique insight across two centuries
of Washington, DC, history. The Pointer family faced many
challenges-the fragility of freedom in a slaveholding society,
racism, wars, floods, and epidemics-but their refuge was the small
farm they purchased in what is now Chevy Chase. However, in the
early twentieth century, the DC government used eminent domain to
force the sale of their farm and replaced it with an all-white
school. Between Freedom and Equality grants Pointer and his
descendants their long-overdue place in American history. This book
includes a foreword by historian Maurice Jackson exploring the
significance of the Pointer family's unique history in the capital.
In another very personal foreword, James Fisher, an
eighth-generation descendant of George Pointer, shares his complex
emotions when he learned about his ancestors. Also featured in this
important history is a facsimile and transcription of George
Pointer's original letter and a family tree. Royalties from the
sale of the book will go to Historic Chevy Chase DC (HCCDC), which
has established a fund for promoting the legacy of George Pointer
and his descendants.
Vaudeville, as it is commonly known today, began as a response to
scandalous variety performances appealing mostly to adult, male
patrons. When former minstrel performer and balladeer Tony Pastor
opened the Fourteenth Street Theatre in New York in 1881, he was
guided by a mission to provide family-friendly variety shows in
hopes of drawing in that portion of the audience - women and
children - otherwise inherently excluded from variety bills prior
to 1881. There he perfected a framework for family-oriented
amusements of the highest obtainable quality and style. Historical
Dictionary of Vaudeville contains a chronology, an introduction, an
extensive bibliography, and the dictionary section has more than
1,000 cross-referenced entries on performing artists, managers and
agents, theatre facilities, and the terminology central to the
history of vaudeville. This book is an excellent resource for
students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
vaudeville.
This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature
of America from 1880-1930. The years covered by this volume
features the rise of the popular stage in America from the years
following the end of the Civil War to the Golden Age of Broadway,
with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such diverse
figures as William Gillette, Mrs. Fiske, George M. Cohan, Maude
Adams, David Belasco, George Abbott, Clyde Fitch, Eugene O'Neill,
Texas Guinan, Robert Edmond Jones, Jeanne Eagels, Susan Glaspell,
The Adlers and the Barrymores, Tallulah Bankhead, Philip Barry,
Maxwell Anderson, Mae West, Elmer Rice, Laurette Taylor, Eva Le
Gallienne, and a score of others. Entries abound on plays of all
kinds, from melodrama to the newly-embraced realistic style, ethnic
works (Irish, Yiddish, etc.), and such diverse forms as vaudeville,
circus, minstrel shows, temperance plays, etc. This second edition
of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the
history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an
introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary
section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and
actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays
and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the American
Theater in its greatest era.
The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the
forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright,
screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political
activist. Following an introduction examining the influences of
Kushner's development as an artist, this updated second edition
features individual chapters on his major plays, including A Bright
Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels
in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of
Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The
Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a
Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner's
adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two
Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln. A book for
anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in
which the past informs the present, this second edition of The
Theater of Tony Kushner explores how his writings reflect key
elements of American society, from politics and economics to race,
gender, and spirituality, all with the hope of inspiring America to
live up to its ideals.
The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the
forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright,
screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political
activist. Following an introduction examining the influences of
Kushner's development as an artist, this updated second edition
features individual chapters on his major plays, including A Bright
Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels
in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of
Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The
Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a
Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner's
adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two
Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln. A book for
anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in
which the past informs the present, this second edition of The
Theater of Tony Kushner explores how his writings reflect key
elements of American society, from politics and economics to race,
gender, and spirituality, all with the hope of inspiring America to
live up to its ideals.
Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the
history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538
to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the
popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first
century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its
practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David
Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman,
Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and
many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater:
Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a
chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography.
The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on
actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres,
notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point
for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about
the early American Theater.
Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary American Theater, Second
Edition covers theatrical practice and practitioners as well as the
dramatic literature of the United States of America from 1930 to
the present. The 90 years covered by this volume features the
triumph of Broadway as the center of American drama from 1930 to
the early 1960s through a Golden Age exemplified by the plays of
Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman,
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine
Hansberry, and Edward Albee, among others. The impact of the
previous modernist era contributed greatly to this period of
prodigious creativity on American stages. This volume will continue
through an exploration of the decline of Broadway as the center of
U.S. theater in the 1960s and the evolution of regional theaters,
as well as fringe and university theaters that spawned a second
Golden Age at the millennium that produced another - and
significantly more diverse - generation of significant dramatists
including such figures as Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Maria Irene
Fornes, Beth Henley, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel,
Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and numerous others.
The impact of the Great Depression and World War II profoundly
influenced the development of the American stage, as did the
conformist 1950s and the revolutionary 1960s on in to the complex
times in which we currently live. Historical Dictionary of the
Contemporary American Theater, Second Edition contains a
chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on
plays, playwrights, directors, designers, actors, critics,
producers, theaters, and terminology. This book is an excellent
resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more
about American theater.
In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces
affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track,
particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays
explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic
issues. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the text moves
from Marx's theories to Wall Street speculation, nineteenth century
immigration issues, the excesses of the Gilded Age and the 1920s,
the Great Depression, World War II and millennial economic
challenges.
The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater
in American history, certainly in the great number of plays
produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the
centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of
European modernism began to gradually seep into American theater
during the 1880s and quite importantly in the 1890s, more
traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism,
surrealism, and expressionism. American playwrights like Eugene
O'Neill, George Kelly, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry, and George S.
Kaufman ushered in the Golden Age of American drama. 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.
This book contains a dozen essays by a range of established
scholars and performing artists on issues in post-1969 American gay
and lesbian theatre and drama, the period after a raid at the
Stonewall Inn helped spawn a 'gay revolution'. The collection
covers playwrights, millennial dramatists, and actors while
exploring the history of gay-themed theatre and drama, the breadth
of stage roles, and the dramatic representation of homosexual
characters from various perspectives. These include the impact of
AIDS, contemporary American politics, images of homophobia,
gay-themed plays aimed at Theatre for Youth audiences, and other
topics.
A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which
covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any
psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, or adults.
It addresses an issue which lies at the heart of human
relationships, that of intimacy.
From the thousands of matches ever played by Aston Villa,
stretching from the club's Victorian foundation across more than
140 years to the Premier League era, here are 50 of the club's most
glorious, epochal and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented in
evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident in
atmospheric detail, Aston Villa Greatest Games offers a terrace
ticket back in time, taking in their 19th-century dominance of club
football, the ignominy of relegation to the Third Division, and
then lifting Europe's biggest trophy just a decade later. An
irresistible cast list of club legends - Pongo Waring and Peter
Withe; Charlie Aitken, Paul McGrath and Peter McParland - springs
to life in these thrilling tales of goalscoring feats, great
comebacks, Wembley glory and the odd glorious yet crushing
disappointment. In all, a journey through the highlights of Villa
history which is guaranteed to make any fan's heart swell with
pride.
Fully updated for its second edition, Pass the PSA is written
specifically for the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) exam, with
one chapter dedicated to each PSA exam section.This latest edition:
Introduces a simple, memorable and failsafe approach to prescribing
(the 'PReSCRIBER' mnemonic) Specifies the universal basic
principles of prescribing for all sections Examines each section's
question structure and how to approach it questions (structured
identically to the exam) that conclude each chapter Covers all
scenarios suggested for questioning in the PSA blueprint Highlights
common traps throughout Contains two mock exams Includes
finals-level sections on data interpretation and management
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