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Congai programs.

Title
Congai programs.
Publication
1928-1929.

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Additional Authors
  • Hervey, Harry, 1900-1951.
  • Hildreth, Carleton
  • Ross, Betty
  • Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981.
  • Zimel, Heyman
Description
1 bound volume : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
Programs for Congai (1928 - 1929) by Harry Hervey and Carleton Hildreth documenting the original Broadway production. Includes programs for a pre-Broadway engagement at The Majestic Theatre (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and a post-Broadway engagement at the Windsor Theatre (Bronx, N.Y.).
Donor/Sponsor
In honor of George Freedley
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Theater programs.
  • Playbills.
Note
  • Item 7, a program for the Sam H. Harris Theatre (N.Y.), contains an article by Heyman Zimel entitled The changing lyric, on contemporary novelty and Broadway song writing. Among the lyricists mentioned are Irving Berlin, Buddy de Sylva, Lorenz Hart, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, and Dorothy Fields. The piece is illustrated with a racist caricature of a minstrel performer meant to suggest Eddie Cantor in blackface.
  • Item 9, a program for the Sam H. Harris Theatre (N.Y.), contains an article by Betty Ross entitled The theatre in Moscow: an intimate view of the Soviet stage, with a mention of the Moscow Art Theatre's production of Vsevolod Ivanov's The armoured train.
  • Item 12, a program for the Windsor Theatre (Bronx, N.Y.), contains Alec Waugh's London letter, on the current theatrical season.
  • Compiled and bound by The New York Public Library.
Call Number
MWEZ+ n.c. 5641
OCLC
1050449688
Title
Congai programs.
Publisher
1928-1929.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
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Added Author
Hervey, Harry, 1900-1951. Congai.
Hildreth, Carleton. Congai.
Ross, Betty. Theatre in Moscow: an intimate view of the Soviet stage.
Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981. London letter.
Zimel, Heyman. Changing lyric.
Research Call Number
MWEZ+ n.c. 5641
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