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A collection of stories and reminiscences, with photos and drawings, looking back on the history of the New York City club. Includes a rare Sherlock Holmes parody, "The Adventure of the Missing Hatrack," by Holmes' illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele.
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Players Club, Sherlock Holmes, TheaterPeople
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The Players' Book: A Half-Century of Fact, Feeling, Fun and Folklore
1938, The Players
Hardcover
in English
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Fifty years isn't so much, with a docile diaphragm / Otis Skinner --
A half century of fellowship / John S. Phillips --
There were giants in those days / Clayton Hamilton --
Edwin Booth, the poor tribute of a lonesome hermit / Poultney Bigelow --
Memories / Frank Sullivan --
Symposium, or, Conversational banquet at the Players / Plato, Jr. --
The actor and the empress / Booth Tarkington --
Let freedom ring / Henry Wysham Lanier --
Weed / Don Marquis --
The new tenants at no. 16 / Richardson Wright --
The Players psychosis / Gelett Burgess --
Historic moments --
An asylum for the élite / Robert Cortes Holliday --
The adventure of the missing hatrack / F.D.S --
Air cooled / Frederic Dorr Steele --
Up-state makes the heart grow fonder / Burges Johnson --
Of ghosts and other things / Arthur Maurice --
The Order of the Silver Collar Button / Don Marquis --
Drink hearty / A.E. Thomas --
Bacchic tales --
The Players' library / Francis Wilson and H.W.L. --
Music in the air / by Brian Hooker.
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