time play woodrow wilson von koch howard (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good-. Stage play transcript sent to Roger L. Stevens by International Famous Agency. Clean and secure in original flexible green binder with three brass brads at left side. Edges of wrappers worn, chipped and creased; contents very good. Roger Lacey Stevens (1910 1998) was an American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive. He was the founding Chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (1961) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1965). In politics, he made a mark as chairman of the Democratic Party's finance committee in 1956. He produced more than 100 plays and musicals over his career, including West Side Story, Bus Stop, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1971, he received Special Tony Award for his body of work. He became known for introducing plays by such adventurous writers as Harold Pinter, Arthur Kopit and Tom Stoppard. Stevens was the General Administrator of the Actors Studio as well as one of the producers of the Playwrights Company, a member of the board of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), and one of the members of a Broadway producing company he founded in 1953 with Robert Whitehead and Robert Dowling. In 1961, he was asked by President John F. Kennedy to help establish a National Cultural Center, and became Chairman of Board of Trustees of what was eventually named the Kennedy Center from 1961 to 1988. In 1965, he received an appointment from President Lyndon Johnson as first Chairman of the National Council on the Arts later named the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1986, Stevens was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. On January 13, 1988, Stevens was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. In 1988, he was also awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. [some age-toning to covers, title page and rear endpaper, otherwise a solid clean copy]. This play, which opens with Wilson's speech to Congress announcing the U.S. entry into World War I in April 1917, primarily covers the immediate postwar period, including Wilson's attendance at the Paris peace talks and his failure to secure U.S. participation in the League of Nations. It had its Broadway premiere (in a production by Otto Preminger, during a period when he was temporarily on the outs in Hollywood) on December 28, 1941, and ran for just over a month (40 performances); Richard Gaines played Wilson, with Nedda Harrigan as his wife Edith. Curiously, in all contemporary advertising and review of the play, John Huston is credited as co-author with Koch -- although in this published version, authorial credit is given to Koch alone, who has added this prefatory note: "In both the research and in the writing of this play the author was aided by John Huston and John Houseman to whom he wishes to express his gratitude." (There must be a backstory to this, but unfortunately in his 1979 memoir Koch devotes not a single word to the genesis, writing, or staging of this play. Huston and Koch were friends and occasional collaborators, notably on SERGEANT YORK, released earlier in 1941; and Houseman had originally hired Koch to write for the Mercury Theatre in New York. The other thing I can't quite suss out is if there's any connection between this play and the 20th Century-Fox prestige biopic WILSON, produced just a couple of years later.).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good staple-bound softcover, no writing or marks. Some toning to first and last pages and wrappers. His plays Great Scott, Give us This Day, and In Time to Come were produced by Broadway. He then worked on radio scripts, including the Orson Welles radio drama The War of the Worlds. Koch was blacklisted by the Hollywood film bosses in the 1950s. 94 pages. M06469.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Revised. 95pp. Printed gray and blue wrappers. Bottom edges bumped, spine and wrappers age-toned, very good. "*In Time To Come* produced by Otto L. Preminger at the Mansfield Theatre, New York, December 28, 1941.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition thus. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner in 1942. Moderate shelf wear and aging, else good in green cloth. No dust jacket. ; 95 pages.

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Howard Koch: ÒFor Mr. George Devor, Cordially, Howard Koch, Nov. 30, 1943Ó. A lightly handled copy with some dust soiling and a bit of spotting to the cloth without dust jacket. Howard Koch was one of the co-writers of the classic film Casablanca, the writer of the radio script for Orson WellesÕ classic radio show The War of the Worlds, and one of the blacklisted screenwriters in Hollywood during the McCarthy hearings.