Stage: The Magazine of After-Dark Entertainment -- January 1936 vol. 13 no. 4 [George M. Cohan -- Marx Brothers -- Hirschfeld -- Amateur Night at the Apollo -- Stepin Fetchit]
by MacLeish, Archibald; Meredith, Burgess
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New York: Stage Publishing Co, 1936. Paperback. Very Good -. Thurber, James. 100 p.: illustrations; 36 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Contents include: Laugh, Town, Laugh! by Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick [George Kaufman and Katharine Dayton's First Lady, and Bella and Sam Spewack's Boy Meets Girl] -- Playboys of the Western World by Stanley Walker [New York night club life] -- Preface to a Play to Come by George M. Cohan [Dear Old Darling] -- Starvation Amidst Plenty by Archibald MacLeish -- Goose Flesh and Brandy by Burgess Meredith [on first night jitters] -- A New High in Low Comedy by Clifton Fadiman with illustrations by William Auerbach-Levy [on the Marx Brothers] -- Nights of the Seven Stars by Irving Kolodin [Maurice Grau and the Metropolitan Opera House] -- Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman with color illustrations by Rex Whistler, set designer] -- Parts He's Liked to Play by Gene Lockhart [Joseph von Sternberg] -- costumes for Pride and Prejudice by James Thurber -- What's the Yangle? by Leonard Hall [movie publicity] -- Lay-dees 'nd Gen-ul-men! by Don Marquis [Billy Rose's Jumbo] -- Hey-Days of Malevolence by Katharine Best with caricatures by Hirschfeld -- High Hopes in Harlem by Vincent McHugh with illustrations by Alexander King [Amateur Night at the Apollo] -- Ho Hum! or Mistah Stepin Fetchit by Helen G. Thompson [Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry] -- Prime Ribs by Leonard Lyons [practical jokes on Broadway] -- Backstage with the Stage Hands by John Chapman -- Monsignor's Hour by Emmet Lavery with illustrations by Lyle Justis [a complete short play]. Photographs by Alfredo Valent of Adrianne Allen, and Joyce Arling; by Maurice Goldberg of Ethel Merman in Anything Goes; and performance photographs of Jumbo by Gray-O'Reilly. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; lower corner of front cover creased; less than 1-cm. tear from fore-edge of front cover, without loss; center leaf (pp. 49-52) detached but intact and present; cover is bright; some answers lightly written in on the I.Q. quiz for opera lovers; contents are otherwise clean.
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- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
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- 003668
- Title
- Stage: The Magazine of After-Dark Entertainment -- January 1936 vol. 13 no. 4 [George M. Cohan -- Marx Brothers -- Hirschfeld -- Amateur Night at the Apollo -- Stepin Fetchit]
- Author
- MacLeish, Archibald; Meredith, Burgess
- Illustrator
- Thurber, James
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Stage Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
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- Humor; Women Writers; Performing Arts;
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