The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930 Volume 1

by Felicia Hardison Londr�, Felicia Hardison Londr���, Felicia Hardison LondrZ, et al.

Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Henry Irving, Edwin Booth . . . there was a time when they all played Kansas City. From star-studded engagements at ornate opera houses to risqu? shows in Fourth Street honky-tonks, Kansas City was a cow town that wanted to civilize itself through the performing arts. And because it was a railway hub in the heyday of trouping, it opened its doors to America's traveling performers.

This book chronicles the "first golden...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826217095
• ISBN13: 9780826217097
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"