Download or read book Magnificent Entertainments written by Cynthia Cooper and published by Fredericton, N.B. ; Hull, Quebec : Goose Lane Editions and Canadian Museum of Civilization. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The awestruck press thrilled all of Canada with reports of the Earl of Dufferins 1876 fancy dress ball at Rideau Hall. Twenty years later, the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen not only topped Dufferins extravaganza and catered to a new taste: at their Historical Fancy Dress Ball, guests promenaded as important characters from Canadian history. The next year, in Toronto, their Victorian Era Ball feted Queen Victorias diamond jubilee by celebrating in costume the progress of her reign and the technological wonders of the century to come. In 1898, the Aberdeens induced Montreals French and English high society to act out the ideal of national unity. Cynthia Cooper tells the stories of these four vice-regal balls, the costumes, and the optimistic nation-builders who disguised frivolity as historical research and chose costumes that allowed sexual display scandalous in any other setting. The reporters on the fringes of each event form a gushing Greek chorus, and photos by Notman and Topley show la crème de la crème of young Canada in all its finery.
Download or read book The Duchess of Devonshire s Ball written by Sophia Murphy and published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the fancy dress ball hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
Download or read book Fancy s Way written by James J. Adams and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Fancys Way is a bold and thought-provoking work that tells the story of a young African-American girl and her family who live in Mississippi in the South during the turbulent 1960s. The Debonair family struggles with their daily life while the world around them struggles with the Civil Rights movement. Fancys parents struggle with the idea of whether or not they should take an active part in a protest march that is planned in their small town. But a terrible tragedy makes them realize that whatever happens, they will face it as a family and things will be made right! Fancys Way is a story filled with love, drama, disappointment, wisdom and humor.
Download or read book The Illuminati Ball written by Cynthia von Buhler and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you received an invitation to attend a mysterious masked ball held by a secret organization of the rich and powerful, would you accept? Meet the five candidates who do: the scientist, the singer, the chef, the attorney, and the financier. They crave power, love, money, respect, fame – that which eludes them. Their enigmatic host, known only as Pig King, craves something more basic: salvation for his kind. But the Illuminati Ball requires a sacrifice… “I was seduced by Cynthia’s art. She is a wonder.” – Neil Gaiman “Creative genius.” – Forbes
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Download or read book Fancy s Way written by Walter A Turner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Dan Fancy is a top Navy pilot. He has just been reassigned to Miramar Naval Air Station, "Fighter Town", where he hopes to make a fresh start and jump start his career. A failed marriage and a bout of heavy drinking have put him seriously off track. Life at Miramar begins auspiciously as Fancy is reunited with old friends. He begins to prove himself when plunged into rigorous training before Enterprise's six month deployment to the Western Pacific. However, when Fancy meets Cody Thorn and her daughter Amanda, things take a turn he wasn't counting on. The story gives readers a rare glimpse of life on an aircraft carrier, illuminating the lives the men who fly the dangerous missions from the massive floating airfields. Fancy must not only perform under the normal stresses of flying off a carrier, but he must also do so under intense emotional stress when he learns that Cody has been seriously injured by her ex-husband. Unable to be at Cody's side, the situation is a haunting reminder of the events that cost him his first marriage. Fancy must continue to focus on his duties without allowing his personal anxieties to interfere with the demanding tasks before him.
Download or read book Mrs Astor s New York written by Eric Homberger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.
Download or read book From Traveling Show to Vaudeville written by Robert M. Lewis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes—all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.
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Download or read book Fashion written by Alexandra Palmer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial and unconventional, this collection examines Canadian identity in terms of the fashion worn and designed over the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions.
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