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Abstract
If summer dog days cramped theatricals, they could not totally discourage them. Established stars and stock players might desert the sweltering city for cooler haunts at the seashore or in the mountains, but managers continued to keep theatres open and more or less profitable, attempting to lure determined entertainment seekers with promises of icecooled air (barely perceptible), with mountings of plays deemed too uncertain for the height of the season, and with up-and-coming players anxious for a better chance in the limelight. As often as not, this was the time when newer American plays were given an opportunity. Actually, though many contemporary commentators failed to grasp the fact, important young American playwrights were coming increasingly to the fore. By now Steele MacKaye and Bronson Howard were well established, but James A. Herne, Augustus Thomas, William Gillette, Henry C. de Mille, and David Belasco also were carving out enduring niches for themselves. Gillette again had shown his mettle at the close of the previous season. De Mille and Belasco had a new play ready to launch the coming one.
Title: 1888–1889
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Abstract
If summer dog days cramped theatricals, they could not totally discourage them.
Established stars and stock players might desert the sweltering city for cooler haunts at the seashore or in the mountains, but managers continued to keep theatres open and more or less profitable, attempting to lure determined entertainment seekers with promises of icecooled air (barely perceptible), with mountings of plays deemed too uncertain for the height of the season, and with up-and-coming players anxious for a better chance in the limelight.
As often as not, this was the time when newer American plays were given an opportunity.
Actually, though many contemporary commentators failed to grasp the fact, important young American playwrights were coming increasingly to the fore.
By now Steele MacKaye and Bronson Howard were well established, but James A.
Herne, Augustus Thomas, William Gillette, Henry C.
de Mille, and David Belasco also were carving out enduring niches for themselves.
Gillette again had shown his mettle at the close of the previous season.
De Mille and Belasco had a new play ready to launch the coming one.
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