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Seven Lively Arts

Name: Seven Lively Arts
Author: Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Seldes

Read by Jim Locke, James R. Hedrick, Doyle Sanders, Andrew Gaunce, Owlivia, Alex, docdlmartin and TR Love · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The Keystone the Builders Rejected (31:54)
An Imaginary Conversation (16:30)
“I Am Here To-Day”: Charlie Chaplin (19:17)
Say It with Music (16:51)
Tearing a Passion to Ragtime (19:29)
Toujours Jazz (47:07)
Mr Dooley, Meet Mr Lardner (27:37)
A Tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld (30:57)
The Darktown Strutters on Broadway (15:54)
Plan for a Lyric Theatre in America (19:40)
The One-Man Show (17:44)
The Dæmonic in the American Theatre (16:08)
These, Too (13:45)
The “Vulgar” Comic Strip (24:52)
The Krazy Kat That Walks by Himself (25:34)
The Damned Effrontery of the Two-a-Day (22:25)
They call it Dancing (15:12)
St Simeon Stylites (15:57)
Burlesque, Circus, Clowns, and Acrobats (5:19)
The True and Inimitable Kings of Laughter (11:41)
The Great God Bogus (17:35)
An Open Letter to the Movie Magnates (34:45)
Before a Picture by Picasso (24:24)