This biography of vaudeville comedian Joe Frisco captures the world of show business in its transition from the heyday of vaudeville through film and radio to the early years of television.
As Paul M. Levitt tells us, Joe Frisco in his day was so famous for his jazz dance thatF. Scott Fitzgerald mentions him when describing one of Gatsby s parties: "Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform."
Seeking to reintroduce this spontaneous and original wit...
This biography of vaudeville comedian Joe Frisco captures the world of show business in its transition from the heyday of vaudeville through film a...
"Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry "contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (18961983). Although occasionally found in bits and pieces in anthologies and in some period dramatic comedies, vaudeville humor has never before been available in one collectionperformers rarely if ever kept a record of their jokes and routines. Fortunately, Ed Lowry was an inveterate collector. He kept copious notebooks of jokes and routines that he not only commissioned but also...
"Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry "contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades o...
Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (18961983). Although occasionally found in bits and pieces in anthologies and in some period dramatic comedies, vaudeville humor has never before been available in one collectionperformers rarely if ever kept a record of their jokes and routines. Fortunately, Ed Lowry was an inveterate collector. He kept copious notebooks of jokes and routines that he not only commissioned but...
Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three deca...
New York City in 1922 saw showpeople like Fanny Brice and Harry Houdini rubbing shoulders with confidence men and bootleggers like Arnold Rothstein, the gambler reputed to have fixed the 1919 World Series. Henrietta Fine, a precocious sixteen-year-old apprentice locksmith, weaves in and out of this world, living by her wits and the double-cross. Her safe cracking skills make her useful to both Houdini and to the wily Rothstein, who provides cover for her after the police implicate her in a diamond heist. Her picaresque adventures take her from the woods of New Jersey, whose secret Indian...
New York City in 1922 saw showpeople like Fanny Brice and Harry Houdini rubbing shoulders with confidence men and bootleggers like Arnold Rothstein, t...
Paul M. Levitt Elissa S. Guralnick Douglas A. Burger
This book, aims to help young readers to build their vocabularies and to help them to remember definitions by using mnemonic aids. Using 26 vocabulary words from aggrandizement to zany, it uses stories containing puns that help the young readers to retain the meanings of sometimes complex words.
This book, aims to help young readers to build their vocabularies and to help them to remember definitions by using mnemonic aids. Using 26 vocabulary...
Paul M. Levitt Douglas A. Burger Elissa S. Guralnick
This book helps young readers to improve their vocabulary by providing definitions for 26 more difficult words from 'abasement' to 'zealot'. Using amusing stories containing puns that provide mnemonic devices for remembering the definitions, the young readers can improve their word power while enjoying their reading.
This book helps young readers to improve their vocabulary by providing definitions for 26 more difficult words from 'abasement' to 'zealot'. Using amu...
An entertaining record of a life and a time Ed Lowry joined the vaudeville circuit in 1910 at the age of fourteen. He never achieved stardom equal to the likes of Fred Allen, Jack Benny, George Burns, Buster Keaton, or Eddie Cantor, and he never considered himself an artiste. Instead, he saw himself as a hoofer and comic simply trying to make a living on the vaude scene. "My Life in Vaudeville" recounts Lowry s long career in entertainment from the viewpoint of a foot soldier with a big dream. Lowry s story begins in the heyday of vaudeville in the early twentieth century and follows its...
An entertaining record of a life and a time Ed Lowry joined the vaudeville circuit in 1910 at the age of fourteen. He never achieved stardom equal...
When the classical scholar Phineas Ort, Bogus U.'s first choice for president, disappears, the search committee decides to recruit a hit man to keep the fractious faculty in line. Phineas has been abducted by the Robaccia gang, who aim to install their own candidate in the president's office to cash in on Bogus U.'s well-known corruption. Christy Mahon, a former member of the Robaccia gang, now on the lam for having crossed its boss, Brooklyn Benny, has landed a job at Bogus U. as a janitor. Listening through a heating vent, he overhears the search committee's deliberations and decides to...
When the classical scholar Phineas Ort, Bogus U.'s first choice for president, disappears, the search committee decides to recruit a hit man to keep t...
