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The Seven Lively Arts

by Gilbert Seldes

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  1. 1By Gilbert Seldes
  2. 2Dedication — The Keystone the Builders Rejected
  3. 3An Imaginary Conversation
  4. 4“I Am Here To-Day”: Charlie Chaplin
  5. 5Say It With Music
  6. 6Tearing a Passion to Ragtime
  7. 7Toujours Jazz
  8. 8Mr Dooley, Meet Mr Lardner
  9. 9A Tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld
  10. 10The Darktown Strutters on Broadway
  11. 11Plan for a Lyric Theatre in America
  12. 12The One-Man Show
  13. 13The Dæmonic in the American Theatre
  14. 14These, Too
  15. 15The “Vulgar” Comic Strip
  16. 16The Krazy Kat That Walks by Himself
  17. 17The Damned Effrontery of the Two-a-Day
  18. 18They Call It Dancing
  19. 19St Simeon Stylites
  20. 20Burlesque, Circus, Clowns, and Acrobats
  21. 21The True and Inimitable Kings of Laughter
  22. 22The Great God Bogus
  23. 23An Open Letter to the Movie Magnates
  24. 24Before a Picture by Picasso
  25. 25Appendices
  26. 26“Bananas” and Other Songs
  27. 27Appendix to “These, Too...”
  28. 28The Krazy Kat Ballet
  29. 29Further Note on the Fratellini
  30. 30The Cinema Novel
  31. 31Acknowledgments
  32. 32Epigraph

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