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Public education gets support.(Brief article)
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September 1, 2006|
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In this century, as vouchers for private school get more play, evolution in science class grows even more controversial, and book banning remains, the need to support public education grows fiercer, according to M Donald Thomas.
Thomas, former superintendent of the Salt Lake City school district and former deputy superintendent for public accountability for South Carolina, has created Public Education Support Group. It's comprised of educational leaders aimed to support true public education.
"Superintendents these days have to make difficult decisions," ...
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Percy MacKaye's Caliban for a Democracy
Magazine article from: Journal of American Culture
; ...been Shakespeare's intent, but MacKaye saw a relationship between Prospero...American impresariodescendent. Percy MacKaye was born in New York in 1875, son of the actor/playwright Steele MacKaye, and Mary Keith, also a writer...
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The Madison Square Theatre: Stage Practice and Technology in Transition.
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies
; ...New York under the direction of Steele MacKaye in 1880, the theatre opened to...sat 700 (See Figure 1).(2) MacKaye's drastic reduction in auditorium...the Madison Square Theatre was Steele MacKaye (1842-1894) an actor, director...
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Off to see the wizardry
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...contrivers of theatrical spectacle as its own forebears: Steele MacKaye (the 19thcentury proponent of "natural acting...progress. Indeed, it pays homage to the achievements of MacKaye, Fuller, Ziegfeld, and Berkeley, using archival...
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Books received.
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies
; ...Authorship and Representation. New York: Palgrave, 2007. Sokalski, J. A. Pictorial Illusionism: The Theatre of Steele MacKaye. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Thompson, Michael. Performing Spanishness: History, Cultural Identity...
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Trove of Oscar Wilde Material Auctioned
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...a rare, privately printed historical tragedy, "The Duchess of Padua." The copy, inscribed to James Morrison Steele Mackaye, an American dramatist and friend of Henry James was sold for $770,000. ___ On the Net: http://search...
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How the twentieth century saw the Shakespeare film: "Is it Shakespeare?"
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly
; ...evolved out of the helter skelter of magic lantern shows, peep shows, Kinetoscopes, Mutoscopes, Zoopraxiscopes, Steele Mackaye's Spectatorium (1893), and Scenitorium (1894), with accompanying stage wonders such as the "luxauleator...
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Trove of Oscar Wilde material auctioned in London
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...a rare, privately printed historical tragedy, "The Duchess of Padua." The copy, inscribed to James Morrison Steele Mackaye, an American dramatist and friend of Henry James was sold for 42,000 pounds (US$770,000; euro604,000...
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THE INDUSTRY OF SPECTACLE ENTERTAINMENT: IMRE KIRALFY'S GRAND DRAMATIC HISTORICAL PRODUCTIONS OF THE FALL OF BABYLON AND NERO, OR THE DESTRUCTION OF ROME IN STATEN ISLAND
Magazine article from: The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
; ...reinvigorated. The dramaturgy of spectacle staging bridged all levels of theatrical production, from the pictorialism of Steele Mackaye to the refined naturalism of David Belasco, from Wild West Shows to live action, proto-cinematic extravaganzas...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Corneille, playwright, 1606; Aleksander Sergeyevich Pushkin, poet, novelist and playwright, 1799; James Morrison Steele Mackaye, theatre inventor (of the tip-up seat and moving stage), 1842; Sir Henry John Newbolt, poet, 1862; Captain...
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On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies
; ...technological milestones--the chariot race in Ben Hur, panoramas, dioramas, moving panoramas, a vertical panorama, Steele MacKaye's vision of a Spectatorium, the Mareorama, the Balloon Cineorama--that paved the way toward motion pictures...
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