Art, Glitter, and Glitz Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America

Subjects:

• The Arts » Theater
• Literature » Drama
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• Large theater collections; upper-division undergraduates and above.
  —Choice May 2005

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb
• Mainstream Playwrights
• (Re)Claiming O'Neill's Strange Interlude As a Modernist Theatre Text by Thomas R. Adler
• Stillborn Future: Dead and Dying Infants and Children as a "Secondary Image" in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill: An Analysis of the Image in Desire Under the Elms by Linda L. Herr
• "De New Dat's Moiderin' de Old": Oedipal Struggle as Class Conflict in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape by Julia Walker
• Tempest in Black and White: The 1924 Staging of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings by Glenda Frank
• "Not Enough"?: The High Comedy of Philip Barry by Leonard Ashley
• Philip Barry's Holiday: High Comedy as Morality Play by Harry B. Parker
• The Subway: Sophie as Elmer Rice's Ms. Zero by Cynthia McCown
• "Without a Plot, Idea, Hero, or Heroine": The Unlikely Strategy of Sidney Howard's Lucky Sam McCarver by Cynthia McCown
• "Some Kind of Damned Religion": A Reading of What Price Glory? by Maxwell Andersen and Laurence Stallings by Stanley Brodwin
• Baker's "Boys": The Legacy of George Pierce Baker by Lue Morgan Douthit
• Broadway, The Elements of Success: An Analysis of Jed Harris's 1926 Production of the Play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott by E. James Zeiger
• Playwrights and Power: The Dramatists Guild's Struggle for the 1926 Minimum Basic Aggreement by T. J. Walsh
• Popular Theatre
• John Barrymore & Company, 1920-25: American Standard-Bearers of the Shakespeare Company by Michael A. Morrison
• When Actors Were Still Players by Ronald H. Wainscott
• No Sirree! A One Night Stand with the Algonquin's "Vicious Circle" by Jay Malarcher
• The Grand-Guignol in New York City: October-November, 1923: Violence Fails to Draw an Audience by John M. Callahan
• The Other Worlds of Ring Lardner: Popular Entertainment and the Legitimate Theatre by Richard Pioreck
• Feathers, Finals, and Frou-Frou: Florenz Ziegfeld's Exoticized Follies Girls by Ann Marie McEntee
• Gags, Girls, and Guffaws: Burlesque in Downtown New York in the 1920s by William Green
• Barbette: That Daring Young [Wo]Man on the Flying Trapeze by Joe E. Jeffreys
• A. H. Woods, Producer: A Thrill a Minute, a Laugh a Second! by Julian M. Kaufman
• The Girl Friends: Lew Fields and the Early Musicals of Rodgers, Hart, and Fields by Jason Rubin
• Bibliography
• Index