Karl Detzer: 1 book
Culture Under Canvas
The Story of Tent Chautauqua
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In 1904, a showman and Redpath Leyceum Bureau manager named Keith Vawter, put the main forms of entertainment of the time—comedy and culture—on the same platform in a travelling tent, “marrying the respectability of the Lyceum to the spangles of the stage,” and named the union “Chautauqua,”...
