The Theatre Handbook (1940)

912 Pages·2006·59.79 MB·English

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THE THEATRE HANDBOOK

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Edited
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Preface by George Freedley
CROWN PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
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Fourth Printing, March, IQ45
This book is manufactured under wartime condi
tions in conformity with all government regulations
controlling the use of paper and other materials.
PRINTED IN -tHB UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editor offers his thanks for help in the preparation of this volume:!
First to George Freed!ey who has given his scholarship and continuous
cooperation.
To Kenyon Nicholson, who went over the first script.
To Silas Seadler, who sat in on the original plan.
To Barrett H. Clark, whose experience and advice were of immeas
urable value.
To John Mason Brown, the first to discuss the contents.
To John Adams Reeves for his tireless industry and patience.
To S. Frank Plasmati and Younghill Kang for the sections on the
Oriental theatre.
To W. C. Zellars for the entries on the Spanish theatre.
To Alfred J. McCosker, E. Lawrence Goodman, John Sellman, Leigh-
ton Brill, James E. Phillips, Jr., John Hastings, Cleon Throckmorton,
Oliver M. Saylor; to the staffs of the Theatre Collection and the
Fifty-Eighth Street Branch of the New York Public Library, and to all
the many others who have assisted.