Owen Davis wrote his first play at nine and went on to turn out melodramas by the hundred for the cheap theatres of turn-of-the-century America before winning the Pulitzer Prize for Icebound. Here he tells how he sold his first script, how ‘Hold, villain’ theatre worked, how one writes three hundred plays, what the dramatist’s profession demands, and what he found in Hollywood.
An entertaining insider’s history of American popular theatre for anyone who loves the stage. Download the free EPUB.