Description: Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping.We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. Some great books and Magazines on Vaudeville, Burlesque, Music Hall and the FolliesClick on this link for more Theater and Vaudeville Books!Click on this link for more Radio Television and Broadcasting Magazines and Books!FDR's New Deal Work Projects Administration created a massive reaseach volume of San Francisco Theatre Research as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP)comprising 21 Volumes of the History of the San Francisco Theatre.compiled by the Northern California Writers' Project. These volumes had an exceedingly low print run (less than 150 copies) with art print photo documents lovingly mounted on tan card stock in the books. These volumes were mainly inteded for libraries and not available for public sale.Check my other listings for additional volumes of the seriesClick on this link for more San Francisco Theatre Research!THIS SALESan Francisco Theatre ResearchSan Francisco Theatre Research Vol. 14 SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE RESEARCH SERIES A Monograph History of the San Francisco Stage And Its People from 1849 to the Present DayEdited by LAWRENCE ESTAVAN Volume XIV A HISTORY OF BURLESQUE By ETTORE RELLA Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Northern California Sponsored by the City and County of San Francisco 1940CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONOfficial sponsor of the Northern California Writers' ProjectFEDERAL WORKS AGENCYJohn M. Carmody, AdministratorWORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATIONHoward O. Hunter, CommissionerFlorence Kerr, Assistant CommissionerWilliam R. Lawson, Administrator for Northern CaliforniaOriginal Edition 1940 by Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration Softcover 11x8.5" tan covers with original Linoleum cut, single sided mimeographed with art print b/w photo plates inserted 343 pagesCONDITION VERY GOODBook in very clean condition. "Marysville City Library" embossed on title page. Interior clean, no markings, no odor or animal hairs, paper great, binding and covers great, spine mended/ label attached with clear tape ABOUT US: 15 years of experience in online selling with high customer satisfaction . BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - If you don't like the item, just return it in the way you received it and we will gladly return the purchase price. San Francisco Theatre Research Vol. 14 SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE RESEARCH SERIES A Monograph History of the San Francisco Stage And Its People from 1849 to the Present Day Edited by LAWRENCE ESTAVAN Volume XIV A HISTORY OF BURLESQUE By ETTORE RELLA 1940 San Francisco Sponsored by the City and County of San Francisco Project 10677, O.P. 665-08-5-167 Work Projects Administration William R. Lawson, State Administrator TABLE OF CONTENTS BURLESQUE PART ONE (1850 - 1870) 1-130 I In the Beginning 1 II Gilbert and Planche 2 III Take-offs and Pirns 4 IV Box and Cox 7 V Doctor Collyer 10 VI Lola's Pas Seul 12 VII Blackface Burlesque 15 VIII Arrival of the English 20 IX The Rise of the Melodeons 23 X New Piornittire for an Old Hang-Out 31 XI A Burlesque Tempest 34 XII Melodeon Undercurrent 37 XIII Greek Myth Through London Fog 40 XIV A Miner Sees a Burlesque Faust 44 XV Inside a Melodeon 46 XVI Three Fast Men for Ten Nights 50 XVII The Marsh Juvenile Comedians 52 XVIII Maguire and the Seven Sisters 54 XIX A Free Ride for the State Senate 56 XX Mazeppa Comes to Town 61 XXI Boucicault's Arrah-na-Pogue 63 XXII Lady Don 70 XXIII The Elfin Star 76 XXIV The Black Crook 78 XXV Under the Gaslight - After Dark 90 XXVI Commedia dell'Arte and the Martinettis 96 XXVII Elise Holt 109 XXVIII Blondes Invade Classical Ballet 116 XXIX Lydia Thompson 121 PART TWO (1870 - 1900) 131-269 XXX Humpty Dumpty and the Lone Fisherman 131 XXXI Prophecy of the Bella Union 135 XXXII The Zavistowskis 137 XXXIII Tony Denier as Humpty Dumpty 140 XXXIV Blanche and Ella Chapman 142 XXXV Dark Times for Burlesque 145 XXXVI The Forrolls 152 XXXVII Jack and Jill 155 XXXVIII Desperate Revivals 158 XXXIX A Trip to the Moon 163 XL Grimaldi and the Decline of Pantomime 168 XLI Edward "Everlasting" Rice 171 XLII Struggle for Survival 185 XLIII More Revivals 192 XLIV Willie Edouin and the Emerson Minstrels 196 XLV Burlesque in Pantomime 199 XLVI Botticelli and Big Bertha 208 XLVII Provincial Consciousness 214 XLVIII Harry Dixey 217 XLIX Two Long, Profitless Trips 221 L Fay Templeton 225 LI The Black Crook Resuscitated 230 LII Lydia Thompson's Farewell Tour 231 LIII The Kiralfy Ballet 234 LIV David Henderson 237 LV Extravaganza at the Tivoli 247 LVI Beginnings of Ragtime 251 LVII The Ten Gay Years 253 PART THREE (1900 - 1906) 270-295 LVIII Weber and Fields 270 LIX Kolb and Dill 275 LX Local Writers of Burlesque 281 LXI The Burlesque Wheel at the California 286 LXII Shifting Background 289 PART FOUR (1907 - 1940) 296-316 LXIII The Big Shows 296 LXIV Theatrical Background for the Big Shows 304 LXV Visible Signposts 312 BIBLIOGRAPHY 317-319 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 320 INDEX 321-341 PROJECT EDITORIAL STAFF 342 EDITOR'S NOTE As in the case of Minstrelsy, which has not yet achieved the distinction of separate historical treatment in the literature of the stage, the growth and development of that familiar, unrefined entertainment called Burlesque has not attracted a historian. This monograph, of commercial book length, should prove a fair first step toward remedying the situation. Although the locale is San Francisco, the national and even international aspects of burlesque have not been deprived of brief notice. Similarly, the outstanding burlesques performed in San Francisco were performed in New York and other centers throughout the country, often with the same stars or casts. Public reaction, too, was similar, so this history may be said to be a representative one, at least as far as the general may be inferred from the particular. The monograph takes up burlesque in its earliest aspects, though the form is not ancient — even as a literary appellation — and certainly the character of performance so designated on the modern American stage is quite young. John Hollingshead, writing in 1898, pointed out that the very word "burlesque" was unknown in France or England before 1640 or 1650. Historically, we have burlesque that was, as this monograph explains, "an unceremonious take-off on a staid original," composed progressively in rhymed verse, partly in prose dialogue, and finally in prose. Today, a development of the nineteenth century, we have an extension of all these forms, and especially of the era of the sixties and seventies, with the "maud and plumed nudity," the smutty double entendre, the obscene gesture, and the radicalism of its runway over the seats and heads of the audience to the final anarchism of the strip tease. This monograph has carefully and authentically woven into a significant narrative the story of burlesque in all its varied forms and colors. CLICK HERE FOR MORE Vintage Record Catalogs and Booklets! Please check my other listings for some great vintage Turntable and Phonograph items, Phonograph and Music books! 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Author: Northern California Writers' Project, Federal Theatre Project, Lawrence Estavan, Katherine Justice, ETTORE RELLA
Book Title: History of the San Francisco Theatre, Volume XIV History o
Language: English
Topic: Classical Music, Collectibles, Artists, Comedies, Cult Movies, Cultural History, Documentaries, Dramas, Music, Art & Culture, Entertainment, Historic Figures, Hobbies, Musical Instruments, Musicals, Performing Arts, Pop Music, Popular Culture, Popular Media, Satire, Screenplays, Script/Play, Soundtracks, Television, Theater
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Publishing
Genre: Antiquarian & Collectible, Art & Culture, Business, Economics & Industry, Music, Film/TV Adaptation, History, Leisure, Hobbies & Lifestyle
Book Series: SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE RESEARCH
Publication Year: 1941
Features: Illustrated, 1st Edition
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
