Faust as presented under the personal direction of Max Reinhardt [program]

First Edition. Original Wraps. Program for the 1938 San Francisco Civic Auditorium production of Faust, under the direction of Max Reinhardt. "The celebrated theater director Max Reinhardt, recognized in America primarily for his elaborate productions of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Franz Werfel's The Eternal Road, and Karl Vollmoeller's The Miracle, was born in 1873 at Baden near Vienna, Austria and died in New York City in 1943. Reinhardt's illustrious career takes on added significance because it coincides with a major shift in the evolution of the modern theater: the ascendancy of the director as the key figure in theatrical production. Reinhardt's reputation in international theater history is secured by the leading role he played in this transformation, as well as by his innovative use of new theater technology and endless experimentation with theater spaces and locales, which together redefined traditional relationships between actor and audience toward a new participatory theater."--Max Reinhardt collection. Stars silent film stars George Houston, Lenore Ulric. Evenly toned, wear to wrappers, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Original wrappers with single red string binding, spiderweb glassine, illustrated wrappers. Unpaged. illus (b/w).…