Author: Cerf, Bennett & Cartmell, Van H., compilers Title: S.R. O. ; the Most Successful Plays in the History of the American Stage, Compiled by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell; Introduction by John Chapman
Description: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1944. Hardcover. xvii, 920 p. 22 cm. Good condition, spine darkened Contents: The old-timers: Uncle Tom's cabin, by Harriet B. Stowe (revised version by A. E. Thomas) East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood. The two orphans, by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon.--Starring vehicles: The old homestead, by Denman Thompson. Rip Van Winkle, as played by Joseph Jefferson. The man from home, by Booth Tarkington and H. L. Wilson.--Not so long ago: Peg o' my heart, by J. H. Manners. Lightnin', by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. The bat, by Mary R. Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.--You can't laugh them off: Abie's Irish Rose, by Anne Nichols. Tobacco road, by Erskine Caldwell.--Today and forever: Life with father, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Arsenic and old lace, by Joseph Kesselring. Oklahoma! By Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II.--Bibliographical notes.
Keywords: American Drama Fiction Literature Short Stories
Price: US$ 13.00 Seller: Brookline Village Books
- Book number: 46413
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