Review of revues & other matters
1930, First Edition. London : Jonathan Cape. Good copy in the original green paper-covered boards, backed in gilt-blocked orange cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Front hinge cracked, with mull holding entirely secure. Faint foxing to the preliminary and final leaves. Plates (some colour and some mounted) remain in very good condition; a well-preserved copy overall. Item #460806
Physical description; 94 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm. Notes; Edited by C. B. Cochran. Cover title: Review of revues. "A calendar for theatergoers." Contents: Those theatrical theories / Ashley Dukes — A chorus girl under George Edwardes / Constance Collier — Twenty years ago / Sidney Dark — Collaboration in playwriting / 'John Protheroe' — Critics' dreams: A letter from Charles Morgan; another letter from W. A. Darlington; yet another from St. John Ervine; a fourth from Joseph Thorp; a further letter from Ivor Brown; a plan from W. J. Turner; a final letter from James Agate — A children's theatre / Netta Syrett — Glossary of terms / Ronald Jeans — The dream and the business / Edward Carrick — Tendencies in the German theatre / Ernst Stern — Mise en scène and action / Theodore Komisarjevsky — Why? Why not? / H. F. Rubinstein — A long run / Robert Speaight — Some gossip / Quex — The amateur theatre / Geoffrey Whitworth — Modes and manners for the theatre / Junius — A calendar for theatregoers. Subjects; Cochran, C. B. (Charles Blake) 1872-1951. Theater Great Britain History 20th century. Revues Great Britain. Theater programs. Bitter Sweet (Coward, Noël) Anniversaries. Woodcuts, British 20th century. Engravings, British 20th century.
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