Author: Mimi Pockross
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538131692
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Talk about working from home. . . . Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat chronicles the story of how Mary Chase—a housewife with three children from a working-class Irish community in Denver, Colorado—became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright for Harvey, a Broadway comedy about a gentle soul and his invisible six-foot-and-one-half-inch-tall rabbit friend. This entertaining and inspiring account traces how Chase achieved her dream of becoming a famous playwright while remaining in Denver—where she worked for the Rocky Mountain News, married an editor, and raised a family. Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat includes many vignettes and unforgettable stories about the theater industry. It brings to life the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Theatre Project; provides readers with an insider’s view of the Broadway scene in the 1940s; and highlights the importance of theater personalities, including Brock Pemberton (Harvey’s producer), Antoinette Perry (Harvey’s director and namesake for the Tony Awards), and Frank Fay and Jimmy Stewart (actors who played Elwood Dowd, the amiable, slightly tipsy gentleman lead character). The author of fourteen plays, three screenplays, and two award-winning children’s books, Mary Chase created Harvey to counter sadness during the height of World War II. It would win the 1945 Pulitzer Prize (beating out Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and remain to this day one of the most beloved and underappreciated works of the twentieth century.
Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase
Author: Mimi Pockross
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538131692
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Talk about working from home. . . . Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat chronicles the story of how Mary Chase—a housewife with three children from a working-class Irish community in Denver, Colorado—became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright for Harvey, a Broadway comedy about a gentle soul and his invisible six-foot-and-one-half-inch-tall rabbit friend. This entertaining and inspiring account traces how Chase achieved her dream of becoming a famous playwright while remaining in Denver—where she worked for the Rocky Mountain News, married an editor, and raised a family. Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat includes many vignettes and unforgettable stories about the theater industry. It brings to life the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Theatre Project; provides readers with an insider’s view of the Broadway scene in the 1940s; and highlights the importance of theater personalities, including Brock Pemberton (Harvey’s producer), Antoinette Perry (Harvey’s director and namesake for the Tony Awards), and Frank Fay and Jimmy Stewart (actors who played Elwood Dowd, the amiable, slightly tipsy gentleman lead character). The author of fourteen plays, three screenplays, and two award-winning children’s books, Mary Chase created Harvey to counter sadness during the height of World War II. It would win the 1945 Pulitzer Prize (beating out Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and remain to this day one of the most beloved and underappreciated works of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538131692
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Talk about working from home. . . . Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat chronicles the story of how Mary Chase—a housewife with three children from a working-class Irish community in Denver, Colorado—became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright for Harvey, a Broadway comedy about a gentle soul and his invisible six-foot-and-one-half-inch-tall rabbit friend. This entertaining and inspiring account traces how Chase achieved her dream of becoming a famous playwright while remaining in Denver—where she worked for the Rocky Mountain News, married an editor, and raised a family. Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat includes many vignettes and unforgettable stories about the theater industry. It brings to life the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Theatre Project; provides readers with an insider’s view of the Broadway scene in the 1940s; and highlights the importance of theater personalities, including Brock Pemberton (Harvey’s producer), Antoinette Perry (Harvey’s director and namesake for the Tony Awards), and Frank Fay and Jimmy Stewart (actors who played Elwood Dowd, the amiable, slightly tipsy gentleman lead character). The author of fourteen plays, three screenplays, and two award-winning children’s books, Mary Chase created Harvey to counter sadness during the height of World War II. It would win the 1945 Pulitzer Prize (beating out Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and remain to this day one of the most beloved and underappreciated works of the twentieth century.
Smile When the Raindrops Fall
Author: Brian Anthony
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461734185
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Details the life of Charley Chase—a major force in the shaping of motion picture comedy.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461734185
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Details the life of Charley Chase—a major force in the shaping of motion picture comedy.
Dicing with Di
Author: Mark Saunders
Publisher: Blake Pub
ISBN: 9781857821604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mark Saunders and Glenn Harvey are celebrated paparazzi photographers, onlyhotographing members of the royal family, especially Princess Diana. In thisook they publish the most controversial photographs of their careers.tarting with the night Princess Diana retired from public life in December993, they reveal the background to some of the most famous royal photographs,ncluding: Diana sneaking the married Oliver Hoare into Kensington Palaceor a nightcap after a candlelit meal; Diana with Will Carling during aecret visit to Twickenham; and, the truth behind the infamous royalellulite photographs.;They also tell us how they climbed mountains tohotograph Diana on her skiing holidays; about the day Diana asked buildingite labourers to get rid of them; about their travels in pursuit of therincess to the West Indies, New York, Washington, Colorado, Martha'sineyard, Paris and Florida; and, how their work sometimes results in head-ononfrontations with her.
Publisher: Blake Pub
ISBN: 9781857821604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mark Saunders and Glenn Harvey are celebrated paparazzi photographers, onlyhotographing members of the royal family, especially Princess Diana. In thisook they publish the most controversial photographs of their careers.tarting with the night Princess Diana retired from public life in December993, they reveal the background to some of the most famous royal photographs,ncluding: Diana sneaking the married Oliver Hoare into Kensington Palaceor a nightcap after a candlelit meal; Diana with Will Carling during aecret visit to Twickenham; and, the truth behind the infamous royalellulite photographs.;They also tell us how they climbed mountains tohotograph Diana on her skiing holidays; about the day Diana asked buildingite labourers to get rid of them; about their travels in pursuit of therincess to the West Indies, New York, Washington, Colorado, Martha'sineyard, Paris and Florida; and, how their work sometimes results in head-ononfrontations with her.
The Talent Code
Author: Daniel Coyle
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906496
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. • Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development. • Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906496
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. • Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development. • Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.
Mrs. McThing
Author: Mary Chase
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207870
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
THE STORY: As told by Kerr, all happens very logically. A little girl has slipped past the gatekeeper and over the garden wall to play with a lonely and put-upon lad. She is quickly shooed out by his mother as 'trash.' It just so happens that the
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207870
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
THE STORY: As told by Kerr, all happens very logically. A little girl has slipped past the gatekeeper and over the garden wall to play with a lonely and put-upon lad. She is quickly shooed out by his mother as 'trash.' It just so happens that the
Harvey
Author: Mary Chase
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822205005
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him c
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822205005
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him c
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Origin of Washington Geographic Names
Author: Edmond Stephen Meany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Charlestown Navy Yard, Historic Resource Study, Volume 3 of 3, 2010
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women
Author: Frederic Rowland Marvin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women by Frederic Rowland Marvin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women by Frederic Rowland Marvin