Contributor
Gilder, Rosamond, ed.
Imprint:New York : Theatre Arts Books [1950]
Descriptionxvi, 687 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:The dwelling place of wonder / Robert E. Sherwood. - Success: the theatre's only problem / Louis Jouvet. - A letter to Jacques Copeau / Harley Granville-Barker. - Dramatic criticism-is it possible? / Ivor Brown. - How to see / William Saroyan. - New theatre freedoms / Arthur Hopkins. - Tragedy / Edith Hamilton. - Merriment from Megara / Rosamond Gilder. - Gilles de Raiz / Alvah Bessie. - Shakespeare and the Venetians / Stark Young. - Grimaldi: "Michelangelo of buffoonery" / Edward Reed. - Primitive stage setting / Mary Austin. - Horse opera house / Rollo Peters. - The theatre Mrs. Fiske knew / Walter Prichard Eaton. - The negro and the American stage / Alain Locke. - The magic theatre of Bali; plays and dances as exorcism / Miguel Covarrubias. - Federal theatre project / Hallie Flanagan. - American national theatre and academy / Rosamond Gilder. - Drama and the weather / Paul Green. - Letters from Sidney Howard / Barrett H. Clark. - Notes on playwriting / Howard Lindsay. - Journey through theatre / Ashley Dukes. - Forgers of myths; the young playwrights of France / Jean-Paul Sartre. - Poet's progress: W. B. Yeats in the theatre / Padraic Colum. - W. Somerset Maugham / Sewell Stokes. - George Kaufman: playmaker to Broadway / Carl Carmer. - Meet Eugene O'Neill / Edith J. R. Issacs. - The spirit of the classic dance / André Levinson. - The gloves of Isadora / Robert Edmond Jones. - My casanets / Argentina. - The new ballerina / Agnes De Mille. - Balanchine Musagète / Lincoln Kirstein. - The new theatre dance / George W. Beiswanger. - The maze of the heart / Cecil Smith. - Clorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk / Will Marion Cook. - How to write music in no easy lessons-a self interview / Richard Rodgers. - Folk songs; variations on a theme / Irving Kolodin. - The musician in the theatre / Lehman Engel.
Note:La nostalgilder: some letters of Eleonora Duse / Rosamond Gilder. - Dame Ellen Terry / Velona Pilcher. - A Doll's House and the open door / Ashley Dukes and George Bernard Shaw. - Kindling the divine spark / Otis Skinner. - The moribund craft of acting / Cedric Hardwicke. - The enchanter from the pear garden / Sergei Eisenstein. - I look at the audience / Sybil Thorndike. - On the road with the Lunts / Morton Eustis. - Strictly for "round" actors / Ray Bolger. - Fans, trains and stays; a series of letters on the art of "period acting" / Athene Seyler. - Natural speech / Marian Rich. - "I saw your father in Kismet" / Cornelia Otis Skinner. - Death of a critic / Dudley Nichols. - Walt Disney and the art-form / Christopher La Farge. - Films of fact and fiction / Paul Rotha. - People to people / Arthur L. Mayer. - Biographical films / Joseph Freeman. - Our Town-from stage to screen (a correspondence) / Thorton Wilder and Sol Lesser. - Gordon Craig: the theatre's chief revolutionary / Sheldon Cheney. - The new path of the theatre / Kenneth Macgowan. - The necessary illusion / Lee Simonson. - The mission of the stage setting / John Wenger. - Artificiality and reality in the future theatre / Hermann Rosse. - If I must / Rollo Peters. - Fashions in the theatre / Robert Edmond Jones. - Scene and action / Irving Pichel. - The new stage designing / C. Raymond Johnson. - The theatre of the future / Norman Bel Geddes. - The stage / Joseph Urban. - The camera and the scene / Francis Bruguière. - The designer sets the stage / Norris Houghton. - The craftsman / Aline Bernstein. - Let there be light / Donald Oenslager. - To architects: Stop! Look! Listen! / A symposium. - The new plant / Edith J. R. Isaacs. - Make the theatre building pay / Jo Mielziner.
Note:The soverign word; some notes on radio drama / Norman Corwin. - The actor and the broadcast play / Val Gielgud. - Good radio / Davidson Taylor. - Television backgrounds / Robert J. Wade. - Little theatre backgrounds / Kenneth Macgowan. - The four Georges; G. P. Baker at work / John Mason Brown. - Paul Green: a case in point / Edith J. R. Isaacs. - Teaching theatre / Edwin Duerr. - A credo for the tributary theatre / Lynn Riggs. - Producing Mr. Shakespeare / Margaret Webster. - High jinks at the music box; Noel Coward rehearses Beatrice Lillie in Set to Music / Morton Eustis. - The future of production / Adolphe Appia. - Granville-Barker's Shakespeare / John Gielgud. - The job of directing / John Van Druten. - First rehearsals; Elia Kazan directs a modern legend / Hermine Rich Isaacs. - Every day is Christmas / Oscar Serlin. - Hollywood's gift to Broadway / Otis Ferguson. - Hollywood comes of age / Morton Eustis. - Two English films / C. A. Lejeune. - A sight of paradise / Hermine Rich Isaacs. - A picture of our lives / Hermine Rich Isaacs. - When is a fiction a fact? / Hermine Rich Isaacs. - On with the new / Hermine Rich Isaacs. - The small screen / Arthur Knight. - Filming the subconscious / Siegfried Kracauer. - BROADWAY REVIEWS: by Kenneth Macgowan; - John Mason Brown; - John Hutchens; - Edith J. R. Isaacs; - Rosamond Gilder.
