Death Of A Showman

Author : Mariah Fredericks
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250210913

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Death of a Showman by Mariah Fredericks Pdf

In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady’s maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. “A lively upstairs/downstairs mystery.”—New York Times Book Review on A Death of No Importance It is the summer of 1914 and lady’s maid Jane Prescott is back in New York with the Tylers after a glittering society wedding in Europe. On their return, Jane learns another wedding has taken place. Her old dancing partner, Leo Hirschfeld, has married a chorus girl in his new Broadway musical. Jane and Louise Tyler are pulled into the sparkling and scandalous world of Broadway, as a star struck Louise invests in Leo's show, and Jane chaperones her at rehearsals. But behind the glittering facade of the theater, there are rivalries, secret romances, and some very dodgy business practices. When the show's abusive producer, Sidney Warburton, is murdered, the list of suspects is long. Was it the comedic star or her gambler boyfriend? The disgruntled costume designer? The beautiful, blond dancer, her jealous husband? Or was it Leo himself, who had more reason than anyone to hate Sidney Warburton? As the First World war looms in the distance, Jane and tabloid reporter Michael Behan must strip back the masks of these consummate performers before one of them kills again.

Author : Benjamin Reiss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674042650

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The Showman and the Slave by Benjamin Reiss Pdf

In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman who was said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. In piecing together the fragmentary and conflicting evidence of the event, Reiss paints a picture of people looking at history, at the human body, at social class, at slavery, at performance, at death, and always--if obliquely--at themselves. At the same time, he reveals how deeply an obsession with race penetrated different facets of American life, from public memory to private fantasy. Concluding the book is a piece of historical detective work in which Reiss attempts to solve the puzzle of Heth's real identity before she met Barnum. His search yields a tantalizing connection between early mass culture and a slave's subtle mockery of her master.

Author : National Museum of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015014267192

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Victoria Memorial Museum Bulletin by National Museum of Canada Pdf

Author : Larry J. Hoefling
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455997

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Nils Thor Granlund by Larry J. Hoefling Pdf

Nils T. Granlund (1882–1957) created the first movie preview, filmed the first commercial, was the first to broadcast a live sports event, and, as a popular radio personality, introduced the Jazz Age to America via his broadcasts from Harlem’s Cotton Club. He is also acknowledged as the creator of the modern nightclub, introducing the high-kicking chorus line to the stages of Las Vegas. But though he was among the highest-grossing entertainers of the World War II era—famous enough to star as “himself” in several Hollywood films—he died virtually penniless, and today is all but forgotten. This work is a comprehensive biography of the man known as NTG, from his herding reindeer in Sweden to shepherding the most beautiful chorus girls on Broadway.

Author : John Arthur Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American drama
ISBN : UCD:31175035142564

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The Showman's Ward by John Arthur Fraser Pdf

Author : Ross Melnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231159050

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American Showman by Ross Melnick Pdf

Samuel ÒRoxyÓ Rothafel (1882Ð1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in silent film exhibition; scored early Fox Movietone films such as Sunrise (1927); pioneered the convergence of film, broadcasting, and music publishing and recording in the 1920s; and helped movies and moviegoing become the dominant form of mass entertainment between the world wars. The first book devoted to RothafelÕs multifaceted career, American Showman examines his role as the key purveyor of a new film exhibition aesthetic that appropriated legitimate theater, opera, ballet, and classical music to attract multi-class audiences. Roxy scored motion pictures, produced enormous stage shows, managed many of New YorkÕs most important movie houses, directed and/or edited propaganda films for the American war effort, produced short and feature-length films, exhibited foreign, documentary, independent, and avant-garde motion pictures, and expanded the conception of mainstream, commercial cinema. He was also one of the chief creators of the radio variety program, pioneering radio broadcasting, promotions, and tours. The producers and promoters of distinct themes and styles, showmen like Roxy profoundly remade the moviegoing experience, turning the deluxe motion picture theater into a venue for exhibiting and producing live and recorded entertainment. RoxyÕs interest in media convergence also reflects a larger moment in which the entertainment industry began to create brands and franchises, exploit them through content release Òevents,Ó and give rise to feature films, soundtracks, broadcasts, live performances, and related consumer products. Regularly cited as one of the twelve most important figures in the film and radio industries, Roxy was instrumental to the development of film exhibition and commercial broadcasting, musical accompaniment, and a new, convergent entertainment industry.

Author : A. H. Saxon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231056877

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P.T. Barnum by A. H. Saxon Pdf

I believe hugely in advertising and blowing my own trumpet, beating the gongs, drums, to attract attention to a show, Phineas Taylor Barnum wrote to a publisher in 1860. "I don't believe in 'duping the public,' but I believe in first attracting and then pleasing them." The name P.T. Barnum is virtually synonymous with the fine art of self-advertisement and the apocryphal statement, "There's a sucker born every minute." Nearly a century after his death, Barnum remains one of America's most celebrated figures. In the Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum, A.H. Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes. Always the king of showmen, Barnum considered himself a museum man first and was forever on the lookout for "curiosities," whether animate or inanimate. His early career included such outright frauds as Joice Heth, the "161-year-old nurse of George Washington," and the Fejee Mermaid-the desiccated head and torso of a monkey sewn to the body of a fish. Although in later years he projected a more solid, respectable image-managing the irreproachable "legitimate" attraction Jenny Lind, becoming a leading light in the temperance crusade, founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus-much of his daily existence continued to be unabashedly devoted to manipulating public opinion so as to acquire for himself and his enterprises what he delightedly termed "notoriety." His famous autobiography, The Life of P.T. Barnum, which he regularly augmented during the last quarter century of his life, was itself a masterpiece of self-promotion. "Will you have the kindness to announce that I am writing my life & that fifty-seven different publishers have applied for the chance of publishing it," he wrote to a newspaper editor, adding, "Such is the fact-and if it wasn't, why still it ain't a bad announcement." The Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum captures the magic of this consummate showman's life, truly his own "greatest show on earth."

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89097465009

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Science and Crime by Andrew Wilson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3068780

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Pamphlets on Biology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089230791

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The Humboldt Library of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : England, North East
ISBN : UOM:39015102633628

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Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Northumberland (England)
ISBN : NYPL:33433075875330

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The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rita Thievon Mullin
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402732627

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Harry Houdini by Rita Thievon Mullin Pdf

A biography of Harry Houdini, who became famous as America's most famous escape artist and magician.

Author : William Lonsdale Watkinson,William Theophilus Davison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067864986

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The London Quarterly Review by William Lonsdale Watkinson,William Theophilus Davison Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119103690

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London Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf