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Cousins of sin & salvation // Rocks's Jerry Lee Lewis and TV's Jimmy Swaggart are `the great balls of fire' of Ferriday, La.
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Note: This profile of cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart
was written in late 1986, before the current "holy war" broke out
between Swaggart and other television evangelists.
FERRIDAY, La. The note on the door of Frankie Jean Terrell's house
on Louisiana Avenue read, "Gone to Alexandria for the day. Frankie
Jean."
The house is just a block from the old Assembly of God Church on
Texas Avenue, where Frankie Jean sang as a child with her older
brother Jerry Lee Lewis and their cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggart.
Her note was intended to ward off fans who come from as far as
Australia - ...
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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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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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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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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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Commemorating the French Revolution on the Victorian Stage: Henry Irving's The Dead Heart
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
; ...during the 1889-90 season conformed in whole or in part to this formula. At Drury Lane, Augustus Harris revived Steele MacKaye's Paul Kauvar, about a disillusioned Jacobin who helps aristocrats to safety. At the Grand Theatre Islington...
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