Author: (Belasco, David)
Title: The First Night in David Belasco's Stuyvesant Theatre / MCMVII. (Program)
Description: (Stuyvesant Theatre, 1907). 1907). (Stuyvesant Theatre, 1907). 1907). Very good. - Octavo, brown paper covered boards titled in black with decorations in black & with a brown & white illustration mounted on the front board. The covers are bumped & rubbed with the paper chipped at the corners & along the front edges. The spine is perished with the remnants of the backstrip nearly detached. Title & [25] pages. Illustrated in brown & white with 2 portrait plates & textual illustrations. The booklet is partially cracked at the mid-point & there is occasional light soiling. A complete copy.

Belasco's Stuyvesant Theatre was inaugurated with the opening night of "A Grand Army Man" by Belasco, Pauline Phelps and Marion Short, starring David Warfield. The program text is largely devoted to an illustrated description of the theater's interior decoration, designed by Wilfred Buckland, and the painted panels executed by Everett Shinn. Very good .

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; THEATER MANAGER; IMPRESARIO; PLAYWRIGHT; DAVID BELASCO; STUYVESANT THEATRE; INAUGURATION; FIRST NIGHT; PROGRAM; ILLUSTRATIONS; A GRAND ARMY MAN; EVERETT SHIN.

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