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
Author(s): Harry Houdini “A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters,...
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
Author(s): James T. Lightwood This is a detailed exploration of the references to music in...
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