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Life among the playwrights : being mostly the story of the Playwrights' Producing Company, inc. / John F. Wharton ; photos. selected by Betty A. Wharton.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, John F. (John Franklin), 1894-1977.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Playwrights' Producing Company.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., [1974]
- Contents:
- Background for an experiment
- The experiment begins
- The experiment proves workable
- Business by correspondence
- Sidney Howard
- A little trouble now and then
- Mixing pleasure with business
- Somewhat more than a little trouble
- Anderson to the rescue
- Hard times
- Ups and down
- more down than up
- More Ups and downs
- Prestige without profits
- Touching bottom and an unexpected rescue
- Riptide
- The second blooming
- The sixth playwright
- A Broadway Gotterdammerung
- Epilogue: What of the future?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wharton, John Franklin, 1894- Life among the playwrights.
- ISBN:
- 0812904427
- 9780812904420
- OCLC:
- 1175750
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