Art, glitter, and glitz : mainstream playwrights and popular theatre in 1920s America

Introduction by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. KolbMainstream Playwrights(Re)Claiming O'Neill's Strange Interlude As a Modernist Theatre Text by Thomas R. AdlerStillborn Future: Dead and Dying Infants and Children as a "Secondary Image" in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill: An Analysis of the Image in Desire Under the Elms by Linda L. Herr"De New Dat's Moiderin' de Old": Oedipal Struggle as Class Conflict in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape by Julia WalkerTempest in Black and White: The 1924 Staging of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings by Glenda Frank"Not Enough"?: The High Comedy of Philip Barry by Leonard AshleyPhilip Barry's Holiday: High Comedy as Morality Play by Harry B. ParkerThe Subway: Sophie as Elmer Rice's Ms. Zero by Cynthia McCown"Without a Plot, Idea, Hero, or Heroine": The Unlikely Strategy of Sidney Howard's Lucky Sam McCarver by Cynthia McCown"Some Kind of Damned Religion": A Reading of What Price Glory? by Maxwell Andersen and Laurence Stallings by Stanley BrodwinBaker's "Boys": The Legacy of George Pierce Baker by Lue Morgan DouthitBroadway, The Elements of Success: An Analysis of Jed Harris's 1926 Production of the Play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott by E. James ZeigerPlaywrights and Power: The Dramatists Guild's Struggle for the 1926 Minimum Basic Aggreement by T. J. WalshPopular TheatreJohn Barrymore & Company, 1920-25: American Standard-Bearers of the Shakespeare Company by Michael A. MorrisonWhen Actors Were Still Players by Ronald H. WainscottNo Sirree! A One Night Stand with the Algonquin's "Vicious Circle" by Jay MalarcherThe Grand-Guignol in New York City: October-November, 1923: Violence Fails to Draw an Audience by John M. CallahanThe Other Worlds of Ring Lardner: Popular Entertainment and the Legitimate Theatre by Richard PioreckFeathers, Finals, and Frou-Frou: Florenz Ziegfeld's Exoticized Follies Girls by Ann Marie McEnteeGags, Girls, and Guffaws: Burlesque in Downtown New York in the 1920s by William GreenBarbette: That Daring Young [Wo]Man on the Flying Trapeze by Joe E. JeffreysA. H. Woods, Producer: A Thrill a Minute, a Laugh a Second! by Julian M. KaufmanThe Girl Friends: Lew Fields and the Early Musicals of Rodgers, Hart, and Fields by Jason RubinBibliographyIndex