Author: Alan Sharpe
Publisher: Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd
ISBN: 0908272596
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Pictorial History Eastern Suburbs
Author: Alan Sharpe
Publisher: Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd
ISBN: 0908272596
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd
ISBN: 0908272596
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
My Life's Story
Author: Nellie Stewart
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Guide to the Collections
Author: National Library of Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Melba
Author: Therese Radic
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349086703
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A biography of the world-famous opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, this book provides fresh insights into her character and motivations. It describes her childhood in Australia, her studies in Paris, her rise to fame and the fascination which she inspired up to the time of the mysterious illness which caused her death. Melba is presented as a shrewd, self-made woman, financially and personally independent. She managed her greatest asset - her voice - and her earnings cleverly so that the voice lasted the distance of a long and strenuous career, and her investments enabled her to enjoy life on a grand scale. She dictated the terms of her own life and rose to unsurpassed heights in her chosen profession. The book's large format enables the main text to be supplemented by lengthy footnotes running down the outside margins, providing additional historical and anecdotal information.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349086703
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A biography of the world-famous opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, this book provides fresh insights into her character and motivations. It describes her childhood in Australia, her studies in Paris, her rise to fame and the fascination which she inspired up to the time of the mysterious illness which caused her death. Melba is presented as a shrewd, self-made woman, financially and personally independent. She managed her greatest asset - her voice - and her earnings cleverly so that the voice lasted the distance of a long and strenuous career, and her investments enabled her to enjoy life on a grand scale. She dictated the terms of her own life and rose to unsurpassed heights in her chosen profession. The book's large format enables the main text to be supplemented by lengthy footnotes running down the outside margins, providing additional historical and anecdotal information.
All That Glittered
Author: Ethan Mordden
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 146689329X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
From the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took the form of literature, music, and theatre. During this golden age of Broadway, actors and actresses became legends and starred in now classic plays. Laurence Olivier, Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontaine were names to remember, etching plays into memory as they brought the words of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill to life. Joseph Cotton romanced Katherine Hepburn in Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story while Laurette Taylor became The Glass Menagerie's Amanda Wingfield. Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, Jason Robards Jr. and Bradford Dillman showed us life among the ruins in Long Day's Journey Into Night. In All That Glittered, Ethan Mordden, long one of Broadway's best chroniclers, recreates the fascinating lost world of its golden age.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 146689329X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
From the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took the form of literature, music, and theatre. During this golden age of Broadway, actors and actresses became legends and starred in now classic plays. Laurence Olivier, Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontaine were names to remember, etching plays into memory as they brought the words of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill to life. Joseph Cotton romanced Katherine Hepburn in Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story while Laurette Taylor became The Glass Menagerie's Amanda Wingfield. Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, Jason Robards Jr. and Bradford Dillman showed us life among the ruins in Long Day's Journey Into Night. In All That Glittered, Ethan Mordden, long one of Broadway's best chroniclers, recreates the fascinating lost world of its golden age.
The New York Dramatic Mirror
Author:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Sport in Australian Drama
Author: Richard Fotheringham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521401562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521401562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.
Claude Rains
Author: John T. Soister
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476612781
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the careers of the ever-popular Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney and Rathbone, but few can dispute that he was truly one of the world's foremost character actors. The Invisible Man, ironically, made him quite the visible star. In his own inimitable way, Rains later became John Jasper (in Mystery of Edwin Drood), Louis Renault (Casablanca), Julius Caesar (Caesar and Cleopatra), and Mr. Dryden (Lawrence of Arabia). While concentrating on Rains' more than fifty films, this book also comprehensively examines his work in other media: the stage, radio, television and recordings. His only child, Jessica, in the foreword, provides a brief biography of her father. There are many rare photographs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476612781
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the careers of the ever-popular Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney and Rathbone, but few can dispute that he was truly one of the world's foremost character actors. The Invisible Man, ironically, made him quite the visible star. In his own inimitable way, Rains later became John Jasper (in Mystery of Edwin Drood), Louis Renault (Casablanca), Julius Caesar (Caesar and Cleopatra), and Mr. Dryden (Lawrence of Arabia). While concentrating on Rains' more than fifty films, this book also comprehensively examines his work in other media: the stage, radio, television and recordings. His only child, Jessica, in the foreword, provides a brief biography of her father. There are many rare photographs.
The Pastoral Review
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Margaret Anglin
Author: John LeVay
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0889242062
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
From Margaret Anglin's birth in 1876 in the Speaker's suite of the Canadian House of Commons, to her death in Toronto in 1958, Margaret Anglin: A Stage Life is a lively biography researched from personal sources and theatre periodicals of the times. Author John Le Vay gives us glimpses of the rich and colourful personal life behind the stage persona. Called ""Canada's greatest actress"" by Herbert Whittaker, Margaret Anglin succeeded in winning critical acclaim for her sensitive portrayals in Shakespearean comedy and Greek tragedy. In more contemporary productions she was praised for her work with actor-managers James O'Neill, E.H. Sothern, Richard Mansfield, and Henry Miller, and playwrights Somerset Maugham, H.A. Jones, and Paul Kester.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0889242062
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
From Margaret Anglin's birth in 1876 in the Speaker's suite of the Canadian House of Commons, to her death in Toronto in 1958, Margaret Anglin: A Stage Life is a lively biography researched from personal sources and theatre periodicals of the times. Author John Le Vay gives us glimpses of the rich and colourful personal life behind the stage persona. Called ""Canada's greatest actress"" by Herbert Whittaker, Margaret Anglin succeeded in winning critical acclaim for her sensitive portrayals in Shakespearean comedy and Greek tragedy. In more contemporary productions she was praised for her work with actor-managers James O'Neill, E.H. Sothern, Richard Mansfield, and Henry Miller, and playwrights Somerset Maugham, H.A. Jones, and Paul Kester.