AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE

AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE by Stein, Charles. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780394537436.

A compellation of articles, excerpts from books, etc. that refer to the Golden Age of Vaudeville by the people who were there, wrote the reviews, and quite a lot of the ones who made it great. Divided into five sections: Beginnings. The Golden Years, Some of the Great Ones, Impact on American Life, and Decline, its the last that will break your heart. Have tissues handy. Contents: In the days of variety / Bert Lowry -- Lillian Russells reminiscences -- The vogue of the vaudeville / B.F. Keith -- The vaudeville theatre / Edwin Milton Royle -- The life of a vaudeville artiste / Norman Hapgood -- A vaudeville turn / Cyrus Townsend Brady -- A week of "one night stands" / Bennet Musson -- The decay of vaudeville -- On vaudeville / William Dean Howells -- Vaudeville versus musical comedy / William Gould -- What I dont know about vaudeville / Acton Davies -- Two great ladies of the theatre play vaudeville / Ethel Barrymore, Mrs. Patrick Campbell -- Twenty-six weeks in vaudeville: learning things I have never forgotten / Alfred Lunt -- In vaudeville / Hartley Davis -- The golden age of vaudeville / Ludwig Lewisohn -- The business side of vaudeville / Hartley Davis -- The facts of vaudeville / Alfred L. Bernheim -- The original eight / George Fuller Golden -- Vaudeville is reconstructed and establishes its own supreme court / Walter J. Kingsley -- Children of the stage / Elbridge T. Gerry -- Buster Keaton and Elsie Janis clash with the Gerry Society / Buster Keaton, Elsie Janis -- You ought to go on the stage / Edward F. Albee -- Browsing for vaudeville talent -- Tryout nights for aspirants to Broadways favor -- The mechanics of vaudeville / Marian Spitzer -- Psychology of the American vaudeville show from the managers point of view / George Gottlieb -- The two-act as seen in typical vaudeville skits / Brett Page, Milton Berle -- A potpourri of vaudeville jokes / I. and M. Ottenheimer -- The wow finish / Walter De Leon -- Vaudeville music / Caroline Caffin -- Twenty years of vaudeville / Edward F. Albee -- The people of vaudeville / Marian Spitzer -- A pair of hoofers / Fred Astaire, James Cagney -- The original and the echo / Bert Williams, Eddie Leonard -- Two jugglers turned comedians / W.C. Fields, Fred Allen -- A pair of famous acrobats / Fred Stone, Joe E. Brown -- Two who sang for their supper / Norma Bayes, Harry Richman -- A funny lady and a sex symbol / Fanny Brice, Mae West -- Two brothers who made their marks / Groucho and Harpo Marx -- Making it to the follies / Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor -- Legit and vaude / George M. Cohan, Eddie Foy -- A trio of immortals / George Burns, Bob Hope, Milton Berle -- Social welfare as vaudeville -- Child labor in the nickel theater / Maurice Willows -- Morals in the two-a-day / Marian Spitzer -- The vaudeville philosopher / Marshall D. Beuick -- The menace of the movies / Harold Edwards -- Marvels of the future / Robert Grau -- The motion picture and vaudeville / Marcus Loew -- The passing of vaudeville / W.A.S. Douglas -- Wheres vaudeville at? / Nick Grinde -- The end of the two-a-day / Sarah Addington -- Critics analyze vaudevilles chances / Brooks Atkinson, Robert Sylvester, Ashton Stevens -- Three intellectuals plead for vaudeville / Alexander Bakshy, Mary Cass Canfield, Edward Reed -- Two superstars lament the passing of vaudeville / Fred Allen, Alfred Lunt.