(INSCRIBED) Hare, DavidBiblio.com
Wotta Doctor or Oh Doctor! - carbon typed copies of a typescript that is a revision of Walter Ben Hare's "Bride and Groom a Farce in Three Acts" published by Fitzgerald in 1916
1934H6761Homer City: The Homer City Dramatic Club 1934. Paperback. Good. 4 copies measuring 11 x 8.5 bound in blue wraps with paper spines stapled 41 pp each obviously owned and used by the Homer City Dramatic Club as their reading copies for the stage. Covers show wear and soil one is decorated with a funny pencil cartoon. From the estate of George Zoldak an Indiana PA artist and theatrical painter also an actor in the troupe which were composed mainly of Slovak-Americans. Some copies bare pencil annotations and notes revisions etc. There are also quite a few copies of the small yellow printed flyer for the production of the play at the Richelieu Theatre in Blairsville PA "A 2 Hour Laugh Riot". Like many such farces there are some racial stereotypes included in the cast including a "colored housemaid and houseman." Based on Hare's "Bride and Groom a Farce in Three Acts" -- Hare also wrote minstrel and blackface sketches for Denison around the same time. Interesting window into theatrical production in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania in the 1930s. The Homer City Dramatic Club paperback
Common Crow Books · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €
