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xvi, 687 pages ; 22 cm |
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I. The dwelling place of wonder -- The dwelling place of wonder / Robert E. Sherwood -- Success : the theatre's only problem / Louis Jouvet -- A letter to Jacques Copeau / Harley Granville-Barker -- Dramatic criticism -- is it possible? / Ivor Brown -- How to see / William Saroyan -- New theatre freedoms / Arthur Hopkins -- -- II. History. Tragedy / Edith Hamilton -- Merriment from Megara / Rosamond Gilder -- Gilles de Raiz / Alvah Bessie -- Shakespeare and the Venetians / Stark Young -- Grimaldi : Michelangelo of buffoonery / Edward Reed -- Primitive stage setting / Mary Austin -- Horse opera house / Rollo Peters -- The theatre Mrs. Fiske knew / Walter Prichard Eaton -- The negro and the American stage / Alain Locke -- The magic theatre of Bali : plays and dances as exorcism / Miguel Covarrubias -- Federal Theatre Project / Hallie Flanagan -- American National Theatre and Academy / Rosamond Gilder -- -- III. Playwrights and playwriting. Drama and the weather / Paul Green -- Letters from Sidney Howard / Barrett H. Clark -- Notes on playwriting / Howard Lindsay -- Journey through theatre / Ashley Dukes -- Forgers of myths : the young playwrights of France / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Poet's progress : W. B. Yeats in the theatre / Padraic Colum -- W. Somerset Maugham / Sewell Stokes -- George Kaufman : playmaker on Broadway / Carl Carmer -- Meet Eugene O'Neill / Edith J. R. Isaacs -- -- IV. Music and the dance. The spirit of the classic dance / André Levinson -- The gloves of Isadora / Robert Edmond Jones -- My castanets / Argentina -- The new ballerina / Agnes De Mille -- Balanchine musagète / Lincoln Kirstein -- The new theatre dance / George W. Beiswanger -- The maze of the heart / Cecil Smith -- Clorindy : the origin of the cakewalk / Will Marion Cook -- How to write music in no easy lessons : a self interview / Richard Rodgers -- Folk songs : variations on a theme / Irving Kolodin -- The musician in the theatre / Lehman Engel -- -- V. Actors and acting. La Nostalgilder : some letters of Eleonora Duse / Rosamond Gilder -- Dame Ellen Terry / Velona Pilcher -- A doll's house and the open door / Ashley Dukes and George Bernard Shaw -- Kindling the divine spark / Otis Skinner -- The moribund craft of acting / Cedric Hardwicke -- The enchanter from the Pear Garden / Sergei Eisenstein -- I look at the audience / Sybil Thorndike -- On the road with the Lunts / Morton Eustis -- Strictly for round actors / Ray Bolger -- Fans, trains and stays : a series of letters on the art of period acting / Athene Seyler -- Natural speech / Marian Rich -- "I saw your father in Kismet" / Cornelia Otis Skinner -- -- VI. The film. Death of a critic / Dudley Nichols -- Walt Disney and the art-form / Christopher La Farge -- Films of fact and fiction / Paul Rotha -- People to people / Arthur L. Mayer -- Biographical films / Joseph Freeman -- Our town : from stage to screen : a correspondence / Thornton Wilder and Sol Lesser -- -- VII. Scene and costume design. Gordon Craig : the theatre's chief revolutionary / Sheldon Cheney -- The new path of the theatre / Kenneth Macgowan -- The necessary illusion / Lee Simonson -- The mission of the stage setting / John Wenger -- Artificiality and reality in the future theatre / Hermann Rosse -- If I must / Rollo Peters -- Fashions in the theatre / Robert Edmond Jones -- Scene and action / Irving Pichel -- The new stage designing / C. Raymond Johnson -- The theatre of the future / Norman Bel Geddes -- The stage / Joseph Urban -- The camera and the scene / Francis Bruguière -- The designer sets the stage / Norris Houghton -- The craftsmen / Aline Bernstein -- Let there be light / Donald Oenslager -- -- VIII. Architecture. A symposium : to architects: Stop! Look! Listen! -- The new plant / Edith J. R. Isaacs -- Make the theatre building pay / Jo Mielziner -- -- IX. Radio and television. The sovereign word : some notes on radio drama / Norman Corwin -- The actor and the broadcast play / Val Gielgud -- Good radio / Davidson Taylor -- Television backgrounds / Robert J. Wade -- -- X. Tributary theatre. Little theatre backgrounds / Kenneth Macgowan -- The four Georges : G. P. Baker at work / John Mason Brown -- Paul Green : a case in point / Edith J. R. Isaacs -- Teaching theatre / Edwin Duerr -- A credo for the tributary theatre / Lynn Riggs -- -- XI. Directing and producing. Producing Mr. Shakespeare / Margaret Webster -- High jinks at the Music Box : Noel Coward rehearses Beatrice Lillie in Set to music / Morton Eustis -- The future of production / Adolphe Appia -- Granville-Barker's Shakespeare / John Gielgud -- The job of directing / John Van Druten -- First rehearsals : Elia Kazan directs a modern legend / Hermine Rich Isaacs -- Every day is Christmas / Oscar Serlin -- -- XII. The films in review. Hollywood's gift to Broadway / Otis Ferguson -- Hollywood comes of age / Morton Eustis -- Two English films / C. A. Lejeune -- A sight of paradise ; A picture of our lives ; When is a fiction a fact? ; On with the new / Hermine Rich Isaacs -- The small screen / Arthur Knight -- Filming the subconscious / Siegfried Kracauer -- -- XIII. Broadway in review. The jest [and] John Ferguson ; The Emperor Jones ; The Moscow Art Theatre [and] Barrymore's Hamlet ; Duse in repertory ; The miracle / Kenneth Macgowan -- The dybbuk ; Escape [and] Coquette ; Danton's Tod [and] The Irish Players / John Mason Brown -- The green pastures ; Romeo and Juliet ; The house of Connelly ; Mourning becomes Electra / John Hutchens -- Tobacco Road ; Four saints in three acts ; Roll, sweet chariot ; Within the gates ; Winterset ; Paradise lost [and] Nazimova in Ghosts ; Saint Joan ; Hamlet ; Of mice and men / Edith J. R. Isaacs -- Leave it to me! ; War plays : There shall be no night [and] Watch on the Rhine ; Broadway blackout ; The skin of our teeth ; Oklahoma! ; The glass menagerie [and] Carousel ; V-J Day ; The iceman cometh ; The importance of being Earnest [and] Love for love [and] Sweethearts ; Medea / Rosamond Gilder |
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Theater.
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Theater. |
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Gilder, Rosamond.
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Theatre arts (New York, N.Y.)
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