The reminiscences of Eddie Dowling
Publisher: Microfilming Corp. of America
Published: 1977
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 843
ISBN-13: 9780667002340
Subjects: Biography; Dowling, Eddie; Theatrical producers and directors; United States
Description: Actor, producer, director. Topics include: family background; childhood and education, Rhode Island; early vaudeville career; 1919-20 Follies; Actors' strike, 1919; early plays: Sally, Irene, and Mary; Honeymoon Lane; Sidewalks of New York; Chrysler-Ziegfeld Radio Follies; New York City Democratic politics: William F. Kenny's Tiger Room; national and state campaigns, 1926-40, organization and finances; banking crisis; 1932 Federal Theater Project; organizer and first president, United Service Organizations Camp Shows, World War II; Tennessee Williams, The glass menagerie; Eugene O'Neill, The iceman cometh; comments on many people in the theater, Hollywood, business, finance, and politics, including L.B. Mayer, Marcus Loew, Sarah Bernhardt, Boris Said, George Jean Nathan, Alfred E. Smith, J.J. Raskob, Tim Mara, Henry Morgenthau, Frank Hague, Joseph P. Kennedy, Michael Curley.
Notes: Columbia University oral history collection