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Frederic Chapin
Frederic Chapin (December 1, 1873 – December 27, 1947) was an American screenwriter and composer. His name was also written as Frederick Chapin. He wrote the theatre music, scores for several Broadway musicals. In addition he worked writing screenplays during the silent era, silent and early sound eras. Biography Chapin was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1873. His popular work ''The Storks (musical), The Storks'' (1902) with Guy F. Steeley led to his work with L. Frank Baum, as he was recommended by Tams-Witmark, M. Witmark & Sons, the publisher. Chapin is best known for his work with Baum on ''The Woggle-Bug (musical), The Woggle-Bug'', a 1905 Musical theatre, musical based on Baum's novel, ''The Marvelous Land of Oz''. He also wrote songs with lyricist Arthur Gillespie, two of which appeared, credited to Baum, in ''The Woggle-Bug''. His other stage works include ''Pussy in a Corner'' (1904), ''The Forbidden Land'' (1904), ''The American Girl (play), The American Girl'' (1906), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television commercials, video games, and the growing area of online web series. Terminology In the silent era, screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist, and screen playwright.Maras, Steven. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice'', Wallflower Press, 2009, pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown, and argues that they could not be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "Film scenario, scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a contra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Girl (play)
''The American Girl'' () is a 2005 novel by author Monika Fagerholm. It won the August Prize The August Prize () is an annual Swedish literary prize awarded each year since 1989 by the Swedish Publishers' Association. The prize is awarded to the best Swedish book of the year, in three categories. The Swedish Publishers' Association also ... in 2005. Plot References {{DEFAULTSORT:American Girl, The 2005 novels Swedish-language novels August Prize–winning works 21st-century Finnish novels Albert Bonniers Förlag books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hughie Mack
Hughie Mack (November 26, 1884 – October 13, 1927) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1910 and 1928. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was working as a mortician when he paid a casual visit to the Vitagraph studio in Brooklyn. His large frame and comical facial expression made Vitagraph's star comedian John Bunny laugh. As ''Picture Play'' Magazine reported, "The Vitagraph people decided that, if he was funny enough to amuse their star, he could also entertain the public. So he was hired."''Picture Play'', Jan. 1928, p. 26. He later became a prolific character comedian in feature films. In late 1927 he suffered heart failure and died in his sleep at his home in Santa Monica, California. Partial filmography * ''As You Like It'' (1912) * '' C.O.D.'' (1914) *'' Too Many Husbands'' (1914) * ''Bringing Up Father'' (1915) * '' Are Waitresses Safe?'' (1917) * '' A Woman's Faith'' (1920) * '' Trifling Women'' (1922) * '' Goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Davenport (actor)
Harold George Bryant Davenport (January 19, 1866August 9, 1949) was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers. His roles include Dr. Meade in ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939) and Grandpa in '' Meet Me in St. Louis'' (1944). Bette Davis once called Davenport "without a doubt . .the greatest character actor of all time." Early life Harry Davenport was born January 19, 1866, in Boston. Harry came from a long line of stage actors; his father was thespian Edward Loomis Davenport and his mother, Fanny Vining Davenport, was an English actress and a descendant of the renowned 18th-century Irish stage actor Jack Johnson. His sister was actress Fanny Davenport. Career He made his stage debut - at the third Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia - at the age of five in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tefft Johnson
William Tefft Johnson, Jr. (September 23, 1883 – October 15, 1956), better known as Tefft Johnson, was an American stage and film actor, and film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 131 films between 1909 in film, 1909 and 1926 in film, 1926. Biography Johnson was born in Washington, D.C., on September 23, 1883, to William Tefft Johnson and his wife, Anne Wheeler Johnson. He had two sisters and a brother. His father was a soldier and chaplain who was born in Cooperstown, New York in 1834. His father served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Discharged because of his wounds, his father sought and won recommission in the army. After the war, his father studied law and was admitted to practice before the D.C. and federal bar. Johnson was already an actor, traveling across the United States, at the age of 15. His father died in 1898, and his mother in 1926. His mother largely disinherited him, leaving her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun (New York)
''The Sun'' was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets, ''The New York Times'' and the ''New York Herald Tribune''. ''The Sun'' was the first successful penny daily newspaper in the United States, and was for a time, the most successful newspaper in America. The paper had a central focus on crime news, in which it was a pioneer, and was the first journal to hire a police reporter. Its audience was primarily working class readers. ''The Sun'' is well-known for publishing the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, as well as Francis Pharcellus Church's 1897 editorial containing the line "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus". It merged with the ''New York World-Telegram'' in 1950. History ''The Sun'' began publication in New York on September 3, 1833, as a morning newspaper edited by Benjamin Day (1810–1889), with the slogan "It Shines for All". It cost only one penny (equivalent to ¢ i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embassy Five Theatre
The Embassy Five Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 1547 Broadway in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City from 1909 until 1982, when it was torn down. It was originally known as the Gaiety Theatre, becoming the Victoria Theatre in 1943; the theater was known as the Embassy Five Theatre for the last two years of its existence. The office building that housed the theatre, the Gaiety Building, has been called the Black Tin Pan Alley for the number of African-American songwriters who rented office space there. It was designed by Herts & Tallant and owned by George M. Cohan. The theatre introduced revolutionary concepts of a sunken orchestra (the previous configuration had the orchestra on the same level as the seats in front of the stage) and also not having pillars obstructing sight lines for the balcony. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farce
Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical comedy, physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense; satire, parody, and mockery of real-life situations, people, events, and interactions; unlikely and humorous instances of miscommunication; ludicrous, improbable, and exaggerated characters; and broadly stylized performances. Genre Despite involving absurd situations and characters, the genre generally maintains at least a slight degree of realism and narrative continuity within the context of the irrational or ludicrous situations, often distinguishing it from completely absurdist or fantastical genres. Farces are often episodic or short in duration, often being set in one specific location where all events occur. Farces have historically been performed for the theatre, stage and film. Historical context T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle De Vore Johnson
Merle may refer to: People and fictional characters *Merle (given name), a list of men, women and fictional characters *Merle (surname), a list of people Others *Merle (dog coat), a pattern in dogs’ coats *Merle (grape), another name for the wine grape Merlot *Akaflieg München Mü17 Merle, a German glider originally built in 1938 for the 1940 Olympics gliding competition * MS ''Phocine'', a ferry formerly named MS ''Merle'' *A Crusader fort near Tantura on the coast of Israel *The French name for the common blackbird See also *Merl (other) Merl or MERL may refer to: Merl * Merl (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Merl, Luxembourg, a quarter of Luxembourg City * Merl (Buffyverse), a fictional character in the television series ''Angel'' MERL * Mechanical E ... * Merles, a commune in southern France {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinkey And The Plumed Knight
Pinky may refer to: * Pinky finger, the smallest finger on the human hand People * Pinky Amador (born 1966), Filipina actress * Pinky Lee (1907–1993), television personality born Pincus Leff, host of ''The Pinky Lee Show'' * Pinky Maidasani, first female folk rapper and Indian playback singer * Pinky Webb (born 1970), Filipina broadcast journalist ;Stage name/nickname * Pinky (nickname), a list * Stage name of Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese K-pop singer * "La Pinky", stage name of Dominican Republic children's entertainer Nuryn Sanlley Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Pinky, played by Harpo Marx in the movies ''Horse Feathers'' and ''Duck Soup'' * Pinky, a pig in the 1950s British television program ''Pinky and Perky'' * Pinky Tuscadero, a recurring character in the television series ''Happy Days'' * Pinky, a pink koala in the 1984 Japanese anime ''Noozles'' * Pinky, a panther in the 1980s animated television series '' Pink Panther and Sons'' * Pinky, a lab mouse in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
