The theatre through its stage door / by David Belasco; edited by Louis V. Defoe, illustrated from photographs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belasco, David, 1853-1931.

Contributor:

De Foe, Louis Vincent, 1869-1922.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States.

Theater.

United States.

Acting.

Penn Provenance:

Harriman, Karl Edwin, 1875-1935 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Belasco, David, 1853-1931 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered pages, 245 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, MCMXIX [1919]

Contents:

The theatre through its stage door.

The evolution of a play.

Developing the best in the actor.

The problem of the child actor.

Important aids to the actor's art.

The drama's flickering bogy-the movies.

Holding the mirror up to nature.

Notes:

Reprinted in part from various periodicals.

"Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers."

"Published September 1919 I-T"

"I have attempted to epitomize my theories, views, and practices in the making of my dramatic productions, in the training and development of my actors, and in the regulation and direction of the manifold elements which enter into the mounting and unfolding of every work of dramatic art, not as a treatise on these different subjects, but as information for the many who, I know by experience, are curious to learn of the work of the theatre through other sources than the proscenium opening."--A Foreword.

Red decorative cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Karl E. Harriman by David Belasco, June 20th, 1922

Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.

OCLC:

1477069