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The Seven Lively Arts (Book)
Author: Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970
LoC No.: 24009374
Title: The Seven Lively Arts
Alternate Title: The 7 Lively Arts
Contents: The keystone the builders rejected -- "I am here to-day": Charlie Chaplin -- Say it with music -- Tearing a passion to ragtime -- Toujours jazz -- Mr. Dooley, meet Mr. Lardner -- A tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld -- The Darktown Strutters on Broadway -- Plan for a lyric theatre in America -- The one-man show -- The dæmonic in the American theatre -- These, too -- The "vulgar" comic strip -- The Krazy Kat that walks by himself -- The damned effrontery of the two-a-day -- They call it dancing -- St. Simeon stylites -- Burlesque, circus, clowns, and acrobats -- The true and inimitable kings of laughter -- The great god bogus -- An open letter to the movie magnates -- Before a picture by Picasso -- Appendices: Appendix to "I am here today". "Bananas" and other songs. Appendix to These, too..." The Krazy Kat ballet. Further note on the Fratellini. The cinema novel. Acknowledgments.
Language: English
LoC Class: PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject: American wit and humor
Subject: Motion pictures
Subject: Music -- History and criticism
Subject: Theater -- United States
Subject: Dance
Subject: Journalism
Subject: American wit and humor, Pictorial
Subject: Circus
Release Date: Sep 13, 2021
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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