Filling leisure hours
Subtitle: essays from the Missouri historical review, 1906-2006
By: edited with an introduction by Alan R. Havig
Series: Century of Missouri history scholarship series
Publisher: State Historical Society of Missouri
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780962289187
Subjects: Social life and customs; Amusements; Leisure; History
Other titles: Missouri historical review.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social customs and usages during the last century  -- Mary Alicia Owen; title: The circus in early rural Missouri  -- Elbert R. Bowen; title: Joseph K. Emmet as Fritz, our cousin German: the stage immigrant and the American dream  -- John R. David; title: The visual arts in early Kansas City  -- George Ehrlich; title: A resurrection of native arts and crafts: the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904  -- Robert A. Trennert; title: Seeking "The Great White Hope": heavyweight boxing in Springfield, 1910-1912  -- Arly Allen; title: Fannie Hurst: a Missouri girl makes good  -- Cynthia Ann Brandimarte; title: Mass commercial amusements in Kansas City before World War I  -- Alan R. Havig; title: Early movies and their impact on Columbia  -- Joe E. Smith; title: Which came first?--65 years of broadcasting in Kansas City  -- William James Ryan; title: "Butcherin' up the English language a little bit": Dizzy Dean, baseball broadcasting, and the "School marms' uprising" of 1946  -- Patrick Huber and David Anderson; title: The rotary power mower and its inventor: Leonard B. Goodall  -- Leonard E. Goodall; title: Shades of empire: Beach-De Haven home talent shows in Missouri -- Lorelei F. Eckey.