Bernard Sobel
Bernard Sobel | |
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Born |
1887 Attica, Indiana |
Died |
1964 (aged 76–77) New York, New York |
Occupation | Author, Publicist |
Genre | Drama |
Bernard Sobel (1887 – 1964) was an American playwright, a drama critic for the New York Mirror, an author of a number of books on theatre and theatre history, and a publicist.
Career
Among his clients were Florenz Ziegfeld, Charles Dillingham, A. L. Erlanger, and Lee, Sam, and Jacob Shubert.[1]
A collection of Bernard Sobel's papers from 1923-1962 is in the possession of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He was born in Attica, Indiana[1] and died in New York, New York.[2]
Select Works
Plays
- Jennie Knows (1913)
- Mrs. Bompton's Dinner Party (1913)
- There's Always A Reason (1913)
Articles
- Sobel, Bernard (1929), "The Language Of The Theatre", The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company) 69, OCLC 228771241
Books
- Sobel, Bernard (1931), Burleycue; An Underground History of Burlesque Days, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, OCLC 1808911
- Sobel, Bernard (1933), The Indiscret Girl, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, OCLC 24040918
- Sobel, Bernard (1940), The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays, New York: Crown Publishers, OCLC 9596386
- Sobel, Bernard (1953), Broadway Heartbeat: Memoirs of a Press Agent, New York: Hermitage House, OCLC 1514676
- Sobel, Bernard (1956), A Pictorial History of Burlesque, New York: Putnam, OCLC 265486
- Sobel, Bernard (1961), A Pictorial History of Vaudeville, New York: Citadel Press, OCLC 300831
- Sobel, Bernard (1959), The New Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays, New York: Crown Publishers, OCLC 297270487
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bordman, Gerald Martin; Hischak, Thomas S., eds. (2004), "Bernard Sobel", The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 580, ISBN 978-0-19-516986-7, OCLC 53138731
- ↑ "Necrology", Wisconsin alumnus (Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Alumni Association) 65 (8), May 1964: 31, OCLC 6525962
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