Our Theatres To-Day and Yesterday (Classic Reprint) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Theatres To-Day and Yesterday (Classic Reprint) write by Ruth Crosby Dimmick. This book was released on 2017-10-12. Our Theatres To-Day and Yesterday (Classic Reprint) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Our Theatres to-Day and Yesterday According to an account published by Lewis Hallam, when he reached New York the next year, Upton had quite neglected the business he was sent on from England. (it was generally suo posed that Hallam had supplied him with funds with which to build a theatre in New York) and had joined forces with a com pany of comedians from Philadelphia. During the season of 1751-2, Upton was seen in New York with the referred to company of comedians, and appeared as star in a number of Shakespearian plays, opening in Othello and offering Richard Provoked Husband, Venice Pre served, Lethe and Miller of Mansfield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Cinema Treasures
Cinema Treasures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinema Treasures write by Ross Melnick. This book was released on 2004. Cinema Treasures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than 100 years after the first movie delighted audiences, movie theaters remain the last great community centers and one of the few amusements any family can afford. While countless books have been devoted to films and their stars, none have attempted a truly definitive history of those magical venues that have transported moviegoers since the beginning of the last century. In this stunningly illustrated book, film industry insiders Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs take readers from the nickelodeon to the megaplex and show how changes in moviemaking and political, social, and technological forces (e.g., war, depression, the baby boom, the VCR) have influenced the way we see movies.Archival photographs from archives like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and movie theater ephemera (postcards, period ads, matchbooks, and even a "barf bag") sourced from private collections complement Melnick's informative and engaging history. Also included throughout the book are Fuchs' profiles detailing 25 classic movie theaters that have been restored and renovated and which continue to operate today. Each of these two-page spreads is illustrated with marvelous modern photographs, many taken by top architectural photographers. The result is a fabulous look at one way in which Americans continue to come together as a nation. A timeline throughout places the developments described in a broader historical context."We've had a number of beautiful books about the great movie palaces, and even some individual volumes that pay tribute to surviving theaters around the country. This is the first book I can recall that focuses on the survivors, from coast to coast, and puts them into historical context. Sumptuously produced in an oversized format, on heavy coated paper stock, this beautiful book offers a lively history of movie theaters in America , an impressive array of photos and memorabilia, and a heartening survey of the landmarks in our midst, from the majestic Fox Tucson Theatre in Tucson, Arizona to the charming jewel-box that is the Avon in Stamford, Connecticut. I don't know why, but I never tire of gazing at black & white photos of marquees from the past; they evoke the era of moviemaking (and moviegoing) I care about the most, and this book is packed with them. Cinema Treasures is indeed a treasure, and a perfect gift item for the holiday season. - Leonard Maltin"Humble or grandiose, stand-alone or strung together, movie theaters are places where dreams are born. Once upon a time, they were treated with the respect they deserve. In their heyday, historian Ross Melnick and exhibitor Andreas Fuchs write in Cinema Treasures, openings of new motion-picture pleasure palaces that would have dazzled Kubla Khan 'received enormous attention in newspapers around the country. On top of the publicity they generated, their debuts were treated like the gala openings of new operas or exhibits, with critics weighing in on everything from the interior and exterior design to the orchestra.' Handsomely produced and extensively illustrated, Cinema Treasures is detailed without being dull and thoroughly at home with this often neglected subject matter. Its title would have you believe it is a celebration of the golden age of movie theaters. But this book is something completely different: an examination of the history of movie exhibition, which the authors accurately call 'a vastly under-researched topic.'" - Los Angeles Times
Our Theatres to-Day and Yesterday
Our Theatres to-Day and Yesterday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Theatres to-Day and Yesterday write by Ruth Crosby Dimmick. This book was released on 2015-07-20. Our Theatres to-Day and Yesterday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Our Theatres to-Day and Yesterday New York is to-day, in the year nineteen hundred and eleven, the recognized centre of theatrical activities in America and has been for something over one hundred years. Although the first theatre to be erected in the city appeared in 1750 and performances were given here as early as 1732, it was not until the latter part of the eighteenth century that New York took its place at the head of the theatre in this country. Perhaps no other field of enterprise, standing for social good, has made such rapid progress in local history as has the theatrical business, and only a mental gymnast can appreciatingly comprehend in detail the marvelous growth that has taken place in the city's amusement sphere since the days when the only abode of entertainment was at best a mean wooden structure, and actors were frequently compelled to give performances in the upper story of a building, often as not, the home of a cheese or molasses store. To-day Manhattan Island boasts over forty legitimate theatres, a full half dozen first-class vaudeville houses, several burlesque and variety houses and more than four hundred moving picture theatres, many of the last named offering also a fair class of vaudeville. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Shakspere to Sheridan
Shakspere to Sheridan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakspere to Sheridan write by Alwin Thaler. This book was released on 2018-03-24. Shakspere to Sheridan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Shakspere to Sheridan: A Book About the Theatre of Yesterday and to-Day The stage direction (act 11, scene I) reads: The Scene opened, is represented the Prospect of a large River, with a glorious Fleet of Ships: supposed to be the Navy of Muley Hamet. See No. 28. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Second Nights
Second Nights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Second Nights write by Arthur Ruhl. This book was released on 2015-07-18. Second Nights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Second Nights: People and Ideas of the Theatre to-Day The first-nighter, as everybody knows, is a bored but witty person, with a black ribbon to his eye-glasses, who descends to his seat just before the curtain rises, and turns to survey the house ere he sits down. In New York, where theatres spring up overnight, he may be the large, red-necked man who supplied the concrete, but he is generally, at any rate, an insider, stirred by many things that pass the outsider by and inclined to be as concerned over the probable size of the audience on the third Tuesday as in the mere pleasure or nourishment to be had from the play. He is both spectator and participant, urging a new ship down the ways, and finds his interest divided perforce between the ship as a ship and the success of the launching. Author and players are waiting behind that closed curtain - be the play never so unimportant, there is mystery and excitement in the air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
