From the Bowery to Broadway:
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. first edition. hardcover. 4to 552pp. with a foreword by Helen Hayes. from front flap: "From the Bowery to Broadway offers a panoramic view of the early history of the American popular theater through the career of a consummate showman. In the half-century between his stage debut--a bumbling youngster in a Bowery amateur show--and his farewell appearance on the opening night bill at Radio City Music Hall, Lew Fields was involved in almost every form of popular entertainment, from the dime museum, circus, the minstrel show and vaudeville, to revues, "book musicals," and operettas, as well as recordings, silent films, radio, and talkies. Here are the triumphs and disasters of a singular life in show biz." Book VG+: mild foxing to endpapers, mild shelf wear, else clean, square, unmarked, tight. / DJ VG: sunned, offset, clipped. Item #2453
ISBN: 0195053818
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