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The Blue Flame (play), the Glossary

The Blue Flame is a four-act play written by George V. Hobart and John Willard, who revised an earlier version by Leta Vance Nicholson.^[1]

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1920 plays
Dreams in theatre
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Plays by George V. Hobart
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A Fool There Was (1915 film)

A Fool There Was is an American silent drama film produced by William Fox, directed by Frank Powell, and starring Theda Bara.

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A. H. Woods

Albert Herman Woods (born Aladore Herman; January 3, 1870 – April 24, 1951) was a Hungarian-born theatrical producer who spent much of his life in the USA.

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Act (drama)

An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, ballet, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes.

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Ainslee's Magazine

Ainslee's Magazine was an American literary periodical published from 1897 to December 1926.

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Alan Dinehart

Mason Alan Dinehart Sr. (born Harold Alan Dinehart; October 3, 1889 – July 18, 1944) was an American actor, director, writer, and stage manager.

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Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Ballard MacDonald

Ballard MacDonald (October 15, 1882 – November 17, 1935) was an American lyricist, who was one of the writers of Tin Pan Alley.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Brooklyn Eagle

The Brooklyn Eagle (originally joint name The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat, later The Brooklyn Daily Eagle before shortening title further to Brooklyn Eagle) was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chinatown, Manhattan

Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.

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Cocaine

Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.

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Copyright Catalog

United States copyright registrations, renewals, and other catalog entries since 1978 are published online at the United States Copyright Office website.

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DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American film and stage actor.

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Dialogue

Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.

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Donald Gallaher

Donald Gallaher (June 25, 1895 – August 14, 1961) was an American actor who appeared in 25 films between 1903 and 1949.

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

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Drama school

A drama school, stage school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university, or a free-standing institution (such as the Drama section at the Juilliard School) that specializes in the pre-professional training in drama and theatre arts, such as acting, design and technical theatre, arts administration, and related subjects.

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Dream sequence

A dream sequence is a technique used in storytelling, particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story.

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Edward Wagenknecht

Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900 – May 24, 2004) was an American literary critic and teacher who specialized in 19th century American literature.

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Eve Golden

Eve Golden is a biographer whose work focuses on American silent film, theater and early twentieth century actresses.

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Femme fatale

A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps.

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Fox Film

The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American independent company that produced motion pictures.

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George V. Hobart

George Vere Hobart (1867–1926) was a Canadian-American humorist who authored more than 50 musical comedy librettos and plays as well as novels and songs.

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Helen Curry

Helen Curry (October 22, 1896 – November 15, 1931) was an American stage actress.

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Henry Herbert (actor)

Henry Herbert (c. 1879 – 20 February 1947) was an English film, stage actor and producer, who became well known in the United States.

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Heywood Broun

Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. (December 7, 1888 – December 18, 1939) was an American journalist.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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J. C. Huffman

Jesse C. Huffman (1869–1935) was an American theatrical director.

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John Willard (playwright)

John Willard (November 28, 1885 – August 30, 1942) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.

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Little Theatre Movement

As the new medium of cinema was beginning to replace theater as a source of large-scale spectacle, the Little Theatre Movement developed in the United States around 1912.

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Melodrama

A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a very strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. The Blue Flame (play) and melodrama are melodramas.

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Munsey's Magazine

Munsey's Magazine was an American magazine founded by Frank Munsey in 1889 as Munsey's Weekly, a humor magazine edited by John Kendrick Bangs.

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New York Clipper

The New York Clipper, also known as The Clipper, was a weekly entertainment newspaper published in New York City from 1853 to 1924.

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New-York Tribune

The New-York Tribune (from 1914: New York Tribune) was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley.

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Owen Davis

Owen Gould Davis (January 29, 1874 – October 14, 1956) was an American dramatist known for writing more than 200 plays and having most produced.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Preview (theatre)

Previews are a set of public performances of a theatrical presentation that precede its official opening.

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Private railroad car

A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car, or private varnish is a railroad passenger car either originally built or later converted for service as a business car for private individuals.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.

Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. is an American music publishing company established in 1900.

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Shubert Theatre (Broadway)

The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theater at 225 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Soul

In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.

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Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, outside of New York City.

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Summer stock theater

In American theater, summer stock theater is a theater that presents stage productions only in the summer.

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Thais Lawton

Thais Lawton (June 18, 1879 — December 18, 1956) was an American actress.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Sun (New York City)

The Sun was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950.

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The Unchastened Woman

The Unchastened Woman is a 1925 American silent drama film starring vamp Theda Bara, directed by James Young, the former husband of Clara Kimball Young, and released by start-up studio Chadwick Pictures.

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Theda Bara

Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.

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Typecasting

In film, television, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific character, one or more particular roles, or characters having the same traits or coming from the same social or ethnic groups.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Flame_(play)

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See also

1920 plays

Dreams in theatre

Melodramas

Plays by George V. Hobart

Science fiction theatre

References