The Players ̓book : a half-century of fact, feeling, fun and folklore / edited by Henry Wysham Lanier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lanier, Henry Wysham, 1873-1958.

Players (Club)

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Players (Club).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

380 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plan, portraits (1 color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Half-title: Players ̓book, 1888-1938

Place of Publication:

New York : Players, 1938.

Contents:

Fifty years isn't so much, with a docile diaphragm / Otis Skinner

A half century of fellowship / John S. Phillips

There were giants in those days / Clayton Hamilton

Edwin Booth, the poor tribute of a lonesome hermit / Poultney Bigelow

Memories / Frank Sullivan

Symposium, or, Conversational banquet at the Players / Plato, Jr.

The actor and the empress / Booth Tarkington

Let freedom ring / Henry Wysham Lanier

Weed / Don Marquis

The new tenants at no. 16 / Richardson Wright

The Players psychosis / Gelett Burgess

Historic moments

An asylum for the élite / Robert Cortes Holliday

The adventure of the missing hatrack / F.D.S

Air cooled / Frederic Dorr Steele

Up-state makes the heart grow fonder / Burges Johnson

Of ghosts and other things / Arthur Maurice

The Order of the Silver Collar Button / Don Marquis

Drink hearty / A.E. Thomas

Bacchic tales

The Players' library / Francis Wilson and H.W.L.

Music in the air / by Brian Hooker.

Notes:

"Printed from type 1,500 copies"--Colophon.

"A list of players, 1888-1938": p. 333-375.

OCLC:

2496803