Title: The Stage
Bound Volume 10 Oct. 1932 –Sept. 1933

Categories: Magazines Fine Arts Entertainment

Publication Information: Published monthly by John Hanrahan Publishing Co., Greenwich, Conn.

Additional Information: Each issue has 48 pages. Illustrated. Original front covers are on issues. No back covers. There are some ads in the volume. I have more of these bound volumes available.

Summary: This publication aims to record and interpret the most significant and interesting events in the field of the theatre and the allied arts in the US and abroad. Monthly departments include (but may not be in every issue): Curtain Is Up, A Playgoer’s Afterthoughts, The Editor Speaks His Mind, What the Well Dressed Play is Wearing, Promised and Hoped For, Motion Pictures, Music, Books, Events Abroad, A Playgoer’s Afterthoughts, Noel Coward, A Convenience to Playgoers, Theatre Asides. Contents include:
• The Art of Acting is a Science
• A Cuck World
• This Amazing Fellow Perkins
• Gargoyle
• Romantic Days of Old Musical Comedy
• The Best Years of Life
• Frontispiece: Tamara Geva
• The Good Earth
• We Missed the First Act
• Campaign Harmony
• Black Cats Are Lucky
• The Unseen Director
• Why Not the Plays of yesterday?
• I Loved You Wednesday
• The Eugenie of Otis Skinner
• Hollywood Loots Our Stage
• Among Other Things
• Backstage Dictionary
• The Criminal is At large
• Dinner at Any Hour
• Dr. Kaufman
• Gaudy History of Pioneer Days
• Mademoiselle
• First Night Fever
• Dangerous Corner
• Music in the Air
• The Late Christopher Bean
• Katharine Cornell as Lucrece
• The DuBarry
• The Illusion of Scenery
• Firebird
• The Court Jesters of Manhattan
• Francis Lederer
• Parade!
• Holiday Revue and Variety
• Too True to be Good
• The Critics of Showville
• The Bergman Studio
• Promised and Hoped For
• By Starlight
• Movies in December
• Please Don’t Shoot
• Design for Living
• Biography
• Lucrece
• The Abbey Theatre Players
• Goodbye Again
• Richard B. Harrison
• Alice in Wonderland
• Ode to Intellectual Acting
• 20th Century
• Pigeons and People
• Proposals: Let’s Be Tolerant
• Those Thirty-Six Plots
• The Joke Business
• Gertrude Lawrence
• Alien Corn
• American Dream
• Melody
• Design for Acting
• We, the People
• Take a Chance
• “The Maddest of All Gambles”
• The Understudy – Poor Thing
• Havana – or Two Dollar Top
• Where All The World’s a Stage
• Twilight of the Metropolitan
• Walter C. Kelly Makes His Dramatic Debut
• Only in Perspective
• Both Your Houses
• Forsaking All Others
• Strike Me Pink
• Interruption. Drawing by Garrett Price
• One Sunday Afternoon
• Run, Little Chillun!
• Miss Le Gallienne Fights It Through
• Why Movie Stars?
• Nigger John of the Empire
• Design for Hollywood
• John Gielgud’s Rising Star
• Some Musicians
• Positively Mr. Shean
• The 3-Penny Opera
• For Services Rendered
• The Biography of a Playscript
• The Party’s Over; Three-Cornered Moon
• Sprouts from Summer Acres (article partly missing been clipped)
• The Season’s Youngsters (article partly missing been clipped)
• Ethel Merman: Rise ‘N Shine
• Muscovite Night’s Dream
• Politics on the Screen
• How Musical Is Our Musical Comedy?
• Why Playwrights Write Novels
• The Curtain Is Up!
• Lillian Gish
• Nine Pine Street
• A Morning With G.B.S.
• Memory as Critic
• Curtain Up on the Summer Theatre!
• Summer Theatre Data
• The Stage’s Motor Map of Summer Broadway (in couple issues)
• The Mask and the Face
• High Farce Acting – Osgood Perkins
• Linens and Prints for Summer Fun
• Pagan Blood in Italian Festivals
• Not Just Juveniles
• Men and Beasts on the Screen
• On Making Pilgrimages
• Little Ol’ Boy’s Author
• The New Stage Who’s Who
• Natalie, The Merry Widow
• A Summer Playgoer’s Anticipations
• Drama Down Skowhegan Way
• Edith Barrett – Summer Troupe
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Manhattan’s Audience Reviews Itself
• Modern Muses of Musical Comedy
• Drawings: Critical Moments in Summer Drama
• How Summer Theatres Are Made
• Summer Temple of Thespis
• Films of the Year
• Best Sellers of Stage Fashion
• Peace Palace
• Summer Theatre Data
• Broadway Goes Abroad
• On the Vienna Stage
• From Germany – Mady Christians
• A Summer Playgoer’s Discoveries ( in two issues)
• The Noble Prize
• The Summer Harvest of New Plays
• Summer Theatre Vignettes – Drawings
• Summer Acting – How Does It Rate?
• Prophets of Experiment
• Musical Comedy for Ten Thousand
• The Divine Drudge
• Chorus Girl’s Luck
• Forth Years of the Empire
• The Theatre’s Greatest Chance
• Summer Intermission Beyond the Footlights
• The Emperor Jones Comes to the Screen
• The Casual Season in Fashions
• What the Summer Theatres Promise (in two issues)
• Bayreuth, Salzburg, et al
• Hollywood – Debutante Producing Center
• Dorothy Cheston-Bennett
• I Was Waiting for You
• Mr. Prohack
• The Old Road, by George Ade
• Tempest Calm
• Summer Stock Discovered Them
• Dmitri Ostrov
• Our Promising Producers
• The New theatre Code and the Audience
• Ten Nights in a Barroom
• By the Way on Summer Broadway
• An Operatic Prodigy
• This Is America!
• A Grocer Never Forgets
• Just Back From Russia
• One Playgoes Recalls
• Summer Theatre’s Granddaddy

Condition: Hardcover, Ex-Lib – usual stamps/marks. Covers show wear and some soiling. Sound volume some soiling and few small tears and edge chips. Oct. 1932 cover has some spill stains plus this issue and several others following have some light moisture stains on the bottom page edges and along the outer edge but not stuck together. Nov. 1932 cover, Fred Astaire, is partly missing and has had a piece taped in (see scan). Jan. 1933 has a note written on the cover. May 1933 has one page that has been clipped so two articles are partly missing. Several page edges are chipped on the very edges as they were larger slightly then the other pages.

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