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[1st ed.] |
| Description |
576 pages ; 20 cm. |
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Doubleday anchor books
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Doubleday anchor books.
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| Contents |
"On this site will be erected" -- The people against Dorothy Perkins -- "It's great to be a New Yorker!" -- Night clubs -- Alice Lloyd and Farfariello -- The greatest show on earth -- The finale at the follies -- on and off Broadway -- Shakespeare by Arthur Hopkins -- The Moscow Art Theater -- The follies as an institution -- An early theater guild production -- A Greenwich Village production -- Guitry without the Guitrys -- Late Pinero and early Cornell -- Philip Barry and Clyde Fitch -- Animals at the circus -- Herbert Williams -- Bert Savoy and Eddie Cantor of the follies -- Why not restoration comedy? -- Henri Becque as Good-Will Ambassador -- J. P. McEvoy in the Ziegfeld follies -- Can New York stage a serious play? -- American jazz ballet -- The New Jersey ferry -- The new Chaplin comedy -- An American Caligari -- Enlightenment through the films -- Current fashions -- Chaplin and his comic rivals -- A German director in Hollywood -- The follies in new quarters -- Book galleries and book shops -- Broadway in August -- Vantine's in five floors -- "Broadway" -- The Ziegfeld Theater -- The Lexicon of prohibition -- Emil Jannings' American film -- The crushing of Washington Square -- George Bellows -- The Stieglitz Exhibition -- Stravinsky -- The problem of the higher jazz -- Moscow, Athens and Paris -- Thoughts on leaving New York for New Orleans -- All God's chillun -- The old Conviviality and the new -- Return from Louisiana -- After the game -- Reunion -- The men from Rumpelmayer's -- Judd Gray and Mrs. Snyder -- The age of pericles -- Dwight Morrow in New Jersey -- Political headquarters -- Foster and fish -- Aladdin's lecture palace -- The bank of United States -- The Metropolitan Opera House -- Communists and cops -- Detroit Motors -- Red Cross and County agent -- Senator and Engineer -- "Still" -: Meditations of a progressive -- A bad day in Brooklyn -- May first: The Empire State Building; Life on the Passiac River -- Two protests -- Frank Keeney's coal diggers -- Tennessee Agrarians -- The Scottsboro freight-car case -- The enchanted forest -- Indian corn dance -- Fourth of July celebration -- Hoover Dam -- The city of our lady the Queen of the Angels -- Eisenstein in Hollywood -- The jumping-off place -- Back East: October again: A strike in Lawrence, Mass. -- Mr. and Mrs. X -- A man in the street -- Election night -- Hull-house in 1932 -- Illinois household -- A great dream come true -- Washington: Inaugural parade -- Sunshine Charley -- Bernard Shaw a t the Metropolitan -- The old stone house -- The second battle of Oriskany -- Saving the right people and their butlers -- What to do till the doctor comes -- Washington: Glimpses of the New Deal -- Japanese Cherry Blossoms -- The old brick and marble shell -- Mss Barrows and Dr. Wirt -- Reinstating the red man -- The delegates from Duquesne -- Madam Secretary -- The zero hour -- |
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United States -- Civilization.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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United States -- Description and travel.
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