Bartenbach's Opera House.
Published by Grand Island, Nebraska: Prairie Pioneer Press, Stuhur Museum, People and Places Series, ()., 1987
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.Lighthouse Books, ABAA
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Oblong octavo, paperbound (stapled, full-color illus. slick lavender wrappers), 47 pp. Fine. From upper cover: For nearly 45 years, Central Nebraskans were entertained at Grand Island's Bartenbach Opera House, and, like artist Grant Reynard, "found another world on that bright stage where everything was loveliness and light." Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments; George Bartenbach: An Immigrant's Story; Brick by Brick: Erection of Bartenbach's Opera House; Many Late Nights: Operation of the Opera House; The 1880s: Open for Business -- Town Doubles, Opera House Struggles; The 1890s: The Show Business is Nothing; The Opera House as Town Hall: Rallies to Revivalists; At the Turn of the Century: The War with the Movies; Epilogue; A Note on Sources. Nebraska, Grand Island, Bartenbach's Opera House, Performing Arts, Opera. zslic.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Bartenbach's Opera House.
- Author
- Cunningham, Jane.
- Publisher
- Grand Island, Nebraska: Prairie Pioneer Press, Stuhur Museum, People and Places Series, ().
- Publication year
- 1987
- Binding
- Soft cover
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