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A SALUTE TO KENNETH MACGOWAN [in] "Theater Arts"

Los Angeles: UCLA, 1956. First Edition. Original Wrappers. (12)pp; Macgowan portrait from photograph. Published on the centennial of George Bernard Shaw's birth, this booklet includes the playbill for the UCLA Departmetn of Theater Arts production of "Caesar and Cleopatra." Tributes to Macgowan are by various faculty, and include: A Salute to Kenneth Macgowan; Kenneth Macgowan, Colleague; ..., Scientist; ..., Teacher; Yeah...But Is He Commercial?; Kenneth Macgowan, Critic; ..., Producer. Decorative blue wrappers. 7.5" x 8.5" Very Good. Item #037309

[Kenneth Macgowan (1888-1963), American author and film producer, ran the Provincetown Playhouse along with Eugene O'Neill (1922-1924), then focused his experimental-theatre efforts at the Greenwich Village Theatre, before moving to Hollywood as a story editor for RKO, &c., &c. Later, he taught Theatre Arts at UCLA.].

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