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- catalog abstract ""Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and variety entertainment through much of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. One of the last of these belonged to Art Names and His Famous Players, a show that played to venues in Kansas, western Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, and West Texas from about 1920 to 1945." "Tent Show captures both the glamour the shows held for the audiences and the hard work and financial jeopardy those who performed in them faced. Donald Whisenhunt, whose father was one of Names's partners during part of the period covered, draws on family papers, letters and other original documents, and interviews, shedding light on the role this form of entertainment played in the communities it visited, the very unglamorous business that underlay the show, and the kinds of people who chose this way of life."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12390960.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and variety entertainment through much of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. One of the last of these belonged to Art Names and His Famous Players, a show that played to venues in Kansas, western Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, and West Texas from about 1920 to 1945."".
- catalog description ""Tent Show captures both the glamour the shows held for the audiences and the hard work and financial jeopardy those who performed in them faced. Donald Whisenhunt, whose father was one of Names's partners during part of the period covered, draws on family papers, letters and other original documents, and interviews, shedding light on the role this form of entertainment played in the communities it visited, the very unglamorous business that underlay the show, and the kinds of people who chose this way of life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-166) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 174 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Tent show.".
- catalog identifier "089096954X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tent show.".
- catalog isPartOf "West Texas A&M University series ; no. 6".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University,".
- catalog relation "Tent show.".
- catalog spatial "Southwestern states".
- catalog subject "792/.0976/09041 21".
- catalog subject "Arthur Names and His Famous Players (Theater group) History.".
- catalog subject "Names, Arthur.".
- catalog subject "PN2297.A78 W49 2000".
- catalog subject "Repertory theater Southwestern states History 20th century.".
- catalog title "Tent show : Arthur Names and his "famous" players / Donald W. Whisenhunt ; introduction by W. Kenneth Waters, Jr.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".