| Author |
Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970 |
| LoC No. |
24009374
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| Title |
The Seven Lively Arts
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| Alternate Title |
The 7 Lively Arts
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| Contents |
The keystone the builders rejected -- "I am here to-day": Charlie Chaplin -- Say it with music -- Tearing a passion to ragtime -- Toujours jazz -- Mr. Dooley, meet Mr. Lardner -- A tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld -- The Darktown Strutters on Broadway -- Plan for a lyric theatre in America -- The one-man show -- The dæmonic in the American theatre -- These, too -- The "vulgar" comic strip -- The Krazy Kat that walks by himself -- The damned effrontery of the two-a-day -- They call it dancing -- St. Simeon stylites -- Burlesque, circus, clowns, and acrobats -- The true and inimitable kings of laughter -- The great god bogus -- An open letter to the movie magnates -- Before a picture by Picasso -- Appendices: Appendix to "I am here today". "Bananas" and other songs. Appendix to These, too..." The Krazy Kat ballet. Further note on the Fratellini. The cinema novel. Acknowledgments.
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| Credits |
Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
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| Subject |
American wit and humor
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| Subject |
Motion pictures
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| Subject |
Music -- History and criticism
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| Subject |
Theater -- United States
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| Subject |
Dance
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| Subject |
Journalism
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| Subject |
American wit and humor, Pictorial
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| Subject |
Circus
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
66294 |
| Release Date |
Sep 13, 2021 |
| Most Recently Updated |
Oct 13, 2022 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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