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Tony Pastor, Father of Vaudeville
ISBN: 9780786464241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Apprenticed at 14 to life in the circus, Tony Pastor seemed destined for a career in show business. Indeed, true to his desire and his rigorous training, Pastor spent his life within the theater milieu. He made significant contributions to both variety and vaudeville as a songwriter, performer and theater owner. With a head for business, a knack for discovering new talent, and a sharp understanding of popular taste, Pastor initiated new business practices in theater and gave audiences what they sought in entertainment.
Apprenticed at 14 to life in the circus, Tony Pastor seemed destined for a career in show business. Indeed, true to his desire and his rigorous traini...
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189,01 zł |
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Katharine Dexter McCormick: Pioneer for Women's Rights
ISBN: 9780275980047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The issues for which Katharine Dexter McCormick (1874-1967) fought are as important today as they were seventy-five years ago: birth control, sex education, abortion, equal pay for equal work, and freedom from sexual harassment. She was a driving force in the battle for the women's vote, the formation of the Women's League of Voters, the creation of Planned Parenthood, and the development of the birth control pill. McCormick stepped forward when others were afraid to act, and her unflagging fidelity to the cause made possible the social, political, and scientific achievements that today mark...
The issues for which Katharine Dexter McCormick (1874-1967) fought are as important today as they were seventy-five years ago: birth control, sex educ...
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404,82 zł |
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Fred Stone: Circus Performer and Musical Comedy Star
ISBN: 9780786411610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented entertainers. It seemed as if he could do anything and everything, from tightrope walking and acrobatics to song-and-dance, musical comedies, and straight drama. This work chronicles his extraordinary life and career. He was born in a log cabin August 19 1873, in Valmont, Colorado, to a family that was part of the covered-wagon migration into the virtually unknown West. He joined a traveling circus at age 11 and two years later, joined a different one as a self-taught tightrope walker. During his teens. Stone performed on the variety...
Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented entertainers. It seemed as if he could do anything and everything, from tightrope walking ...
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311,02 zł |
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Eddie Foy: A Biography of the Early Popular Stage Comedian
ISBN: 9780786443284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A versatile performer, Eddie Foy contributed to the development of popular theater from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, from poverty-inspired Irish two-acts to lavish musical comedies. This biography of Foy tells the story of his indigent childhood in New York's Bowery and in Chicago.
A versatile performer, Eddie Foy contributed to the development of popular theater from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, from poverty-inspired I...
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250,02 zł |
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Women Vaudeville Stars
ISBN: 9780786469161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mae West, Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Barrymore and Helen Keller are perhaps among the best known women to appear on vaudeville stages. Each came to vaudeville by a different path and with a different offering: Mae West entered vaudeville with a song and dance routine when she was 13 years old. Ethel Barrymore dropped in on the Palace Theater to present one-act plays. Sarah Bernhardt was being celebrated by the British for her fifty years on the dramatic stage when she agreed to appear in the U.S. Helen Keller appeared on the stages of first-class vaudeville houses with her teacher, Anne Sullivan,...
Mae West, Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Barrymore and Helen Keller are perhaps among the best known women to appear on vaudeville stages. Each came to vaudev...
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250,02 zł |
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James J. Corbett: A Biography of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Popular Theater Headliner
ISBN: 9780786409099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distinguished groups of people: the professional boxing public, who celebrated him as America's greatest boxing champion, and the world of popular theater admirers, who revered him as one of Broadway's top vaudeville headliners. Corbett was uniquely instrumental in making boxing and popular theater both justifiable commercial enterprises, to be enjoyed by all classes of people. He became America's first national sports hero and went on to formulate the theater worlds star system. This is the first definitive biography...
When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distinguished groups of people: the professional boxing public, who celebrat...
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219,82 zł |
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Lillian Russell: A Biography of America's Beauty
ISBN: 9780786438686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At a time when serious plays dominated the stages, Lillian Russell was one of the first to popularize musical theater. With her beauty, voice, and grace, she became the symbol of the new American woman. She used those attributes to attain power, social status and wealth, and then went on to become one of the earliest champions of womens equality. Her life and career are covered here in-depth.
At a time when serious plays dominated the stages, Lillian Russell was one of the first to popularize musical theater. With her beauty, voice, and gra...
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250,02 zł |
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