Category Archives: Performing Arts
There’s Laughter in the Air! Radio’s Top Comedians and Their Best Shows
Author(s): Jack GaverDave Stanley There’s Laughter in the Air takes readers on a sidesplitting romp...
Screen Acting
Author(s): Mae Marsh Silent film star, Mae Marsh, recounts her life as an actress in...
Studies in Stagecraft
Author(s): Clayton Hamilton A companion piece to Hamilton’s earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre....
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
Long before modern skepticism became an organized field of study, history’s most celebrated escape artist...
Shadowland: September, 1919
Author(s): Various Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from...
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Author(s): Harry Houdini This work is by Harry Houdini, and was an attempt, by him,...
The Speaking Voice
Author(s): Katherine Jewell Everts From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified...
Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1
Author(s): Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35...
Seen on the Stage
Author(s): Clayton Hamilton A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton,...
The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism
Author(s): Clayton Hamilton A collection of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton concerning theatre &...
The True History of The Ghost; And All About Metempsychosis
Author(s): John Henry Pepper This work portrays the true history of the illusionary tactic known...
Shadowland: November, 1919
Author(s): Various Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from...
The Seven Lively Arts
Author(s): Gilbert Seldes “… But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of...
Shadowland: October, 1919
Author(s): Various Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from...
Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609
Author(s): Bernard Beckerman One of the most important pieces of Shakespearian scholarship to appear in...
Coffee Break Collection 012 – The Performing Arts
Author(s): Various This is the twelfth collection of our “coffee break” series, involving public domain...
Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves
Author(s): Lillian Shearon Reading the Cup is essentially a domestic form of Fortune-telling to be...
Sawdust and Spangles
Author(s): William Cameron Coup Subtitled “Stories and Secrets of the Circus”, this book tells some...
The Cinema of Orson Welles
Author(s): Peter Bogdanovich Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) was, early...
The Art of Stage Dancing
Author(s): Ned Wayburn Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900’s, writes...
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace
Author(s): John M. Burke William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody is one of the legends of...
Herrmann’s Book of Magic
Author(s): Alexander Herrmann Black Art Fully Exposed.A complete and practical guide to drawing-room and stage...
My Actor-Husband
Author(s): Anonymous In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon...
Maccabe’s Art of Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions
Author(s): Frederic Maccabe This manual offers instructions on how to become a ventriloquist. Starting out...
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin
Author(s): Francois-Joseph Fetis Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist,...
Life and Lillian Gish
Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star...
Problems of the Playwright
Author(s): Clayton Hamilton A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as...
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
Author(s): Publius Cornelius Tacitus The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is...
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars
Author(s): Edward Weitzel A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims...
Charles Dickens and Music
When modern readers conjure images of Victorian London through the lens of Charles Dickens, foggy...
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