Cochran c b charles blake (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Landscape 12mo: 1 p. Headed 'Stage and Film Decor.' He thanks her for her letter of 4 November. 'I eagerly await book. If you could spare me more than one [last three words underlined] I should be appreciative.'.

First Edition. Good copy in the original green paper-covered boards, backed in gilt-blocked orange cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Front hinge cracked, with mull holding entirely secure. Faint foxing to the preliminary and final leaves. Plates (some colour and some mounted) remain in very good condition; a well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; 94 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm. Notes; Edited by C. B. Cochran. Cover title: Review of revues. "A calendar for theatergoers." Contents: Those theatrical theories / Ashley Dukes A chorus girl under George Edwardes / Constance Collier Twenty years ago / Sidney Dark Collaboration in playwriting / 'John Protheroe' Critics' dreams: A letter from Charles Morgan; another letter from W. A. Darlington; yet another from St. John Ervine; a fourth from Joseph Thorp; a further letter from Ivor Brown; a plan from W. J. Turner; a final letter from James Agate A children's theatre / Netta Syrett Glossary of terms / Ronald Jeans The dream and the business / Edward Carrick Tendencies in the German theatre / Ernst Stern Mise en scène and action / Theodore Komisarjevsky Why? Why not? / H. F. Rubinstein A long run / Robert Speaight Some gossip / Quex The amateur theatre / Geoffrey Whitworth Modes and manners for the theatre / Junius A calendar for theatregoers. Subjects; Cochran, C. B. (Charles Blake) 1872-1951. Theater Great Britain History 20th century. Revues Great Britain. Theater programs. Bitter Sweet (Coward, Noël) Anniversaries. Woodcuts, British 20th century. Engravings, British 20th century. 1 Kg.…

1p., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged. He begins by thanking Macqueen-Pope for a 'kindly reference' to him in his 'admirable book about The Gaiety'. He has noted a reference to 'Henly' in the index, and identifies this figure as Edward John Henley, brother of William Ernest Henley, whose poem 'Ballade of Dead Actors' he transcribes. He explains that Henley stayed some time in America after going there with a production of 'Deacon Brodie', a play by his brother and R. L. Stevenson, 'and, in 1897, I made my first production, "John Gabriel Borkman," in New York, with E. J. Henley in the title role'. He ends with a reference to 'Henley's magnificent imitation of Henry Irving in a Gaiety burlesque', the cause of 'a rumpus created by the great actor'.…