Title: The seven lively arts.
Authors: Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970.
Publisher: A.S. Barnes
Year: 1962
Subjects: Theater United States.; Motion pictures; Music History and criticism; American wit and humor.; American wit and humor, Pictorial.; Dance; Journalism.; Circus.
Contents: The keystone the builders rejected -- "I am here to-day": Charlie Chaplin -- Say it with music -- Tearing a passion to ragtime -- Toujours jazz -- Mr. Dooley, meet Mr. Lardner -- A tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld -- The Darktown Strutters on Broadway -- Plan for a Lyric Theatre in America -- The one-man show -- The Daemonic in the American theatre -- These, too -- The "vulgar" comic strip -- The krazy kat that walks by himself -- The damned effrontery of the two-a-day -- They call it dancing -- St. Simeon stylites -- Burlesque, circus, clowns, and acrobats -- The true and inimitable kings of laughter -- The great god bogus -- An open letter to the movie magnates -- Before a picture by Picasso.