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Theater Arts of the Allies in the Great War (March 2013): Works Cited

By Felicia Hardison Londré

Works Cited

Adams, Samuel Hopkins.  Alexander Woollcott: His Life and His World.  Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

Aldrich, Mildred.  On the Edge of the War Zone: From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes.  Small, Maynard and Co., 1917.

American Voices of World War I: Primary Source Documents, 1917-1920, ed. by Martin Marix Evans.  Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001 (CH, Jan’02, 39-2973).

American Women in Picardy: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917-1924 ( = Des Américaines en Picardie: Au Service de la France Dévastée, 1917-1924).  Réunion des Musees Nationaux, 2002.

Anderson, Alan.  The Songwriter Goes to War: The Story of Irving Berlin’s World War II All-Army Production of This Is the Army.  Limelight, 2004.

Anderson, Maxwell, and Laurence Stallings.  Three American Plays.  Harcourt, Brace, 1926.

Apollinaire, Guillaume.  What Times Does a Train Leave for Paris? (1914).  [see The Lost Voices of World War I, ed. by Tim Cross]

Audoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane, and Annette Becker.  14-18: Understanding the Great War, tr. by Catherine Temerson.  Hill & Wang, 2002 (CH, Jul’03, 40-6636).

Badger, Reid.  A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe.  Oxford, 1995 (CH, Jun’95, 32-5555).

Baldridge, C. LeRoy.  I Was There” with the Yanks: Sketches Made on the Western Front, 1917-1919.  LaFayette Co., 1919.

Baldwin, Marian.  Canteening Overseas, 1917-1919.  Macmillan Company, 1920.

Belmont, Eleanor Robson.  The Fabric of Memory.  Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957; Arno Press, 1980.

Bergreen, Laurence.  As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin.  Viking-Penguin, 1990 (CH, Jan’91, 28-2636).

Blaetz, Robin.  Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture.  University Press of Virginia, 2001 (CH, Jul’02, 39-6191).

Boyce, Neith.  The Modern World of Neith Boyce: Autobiography and Diaries, ed. by Carol DeBoer-Langworthy.  New Mexico, 2003.

British Popular Culture and the First World War, ed. by Jessica Meyer.  Brill, 2008.

British Silent Cinema and the Great War, ed. by Michael Hammond and Michael Williams.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (CH, Mar’12, 49-3754).

Campbell, Nina, and Meredith Etherington-Smith.  Elsie de Wolfe: A Decorative Life.  Panache Press, 1988.

Canada and the Theatre of War, select. and ed. by Donna Coates and Sherrill Grace.  2v.  Playwrights Canada Press, 2008.  [see Gray, John]

Capozzola, Christopher.  Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen.  Oxford, 2008 (CH, Jun’09, 46-5795).

Cashman, Sean Dennis.  America in the Age of the Titans: The Progressive Era and World War I.  New York University, 1988 (CH, Jan’89, 26-2853).

Chlumberg, Hans.  Miracle at Verdun, tr. by Edward Crankshaw.  London: V. Gollancz, 1932.

Churchill, Allen.  Over Here!: An Informal Re-creation of the Home Front in World War I.  Dodd, Mead, 1968 (CH, Mar’69).

Cohen, Aaron J.  Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art & the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917.  Nebraska, 2008.

Collins, L. J.  Theatre at War, 1914-18.  Martin’s, 1998.

Collins, Theresa M.  Otto Kahn: Art, Money & Modern Time.  North Carolina, 2002 (CH, Dec’02, 40-2271).

A Companion to World War I, ed. by John Horne.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (CH, Jan’11, 48-2910).

Creel, George.  How We Advertised America: The First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information That Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe.  Harper & Brothers, 1920.

Cross, Tim.  The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets & Playwrights.  Iowa, 1988; Bloomsbury, 1998.  [see Apollinaire, Guillaume; Stramm, August; Sorge, Reinhard Johannes]

DeBauche, Leslie Midkiff.  Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I.  Wisconsin, 1997 (CH, Nov’97, 35-1431).

Dowling, Timothy.  Personal Perspectives: World War I.  ABC CLIO, 2005 (CH, Jul’06, 43-6693).

Durham, Weldon B.  Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919.  McFarland, 2006.

Eksteins, Modris.  Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age.  Houghton Mifflin, 1989 (CH, Oct’89, 27-1077).

Ellis, Edward Robb.  Echoes of Distant Thunder: Life in the United States, 1914-1918.  Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975.

Empey, Arthur Guy.  Over the Top”: Together with Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches.  G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917.

Encyclopédie de la Grande Guerre 1914-1018: Histoire et culture, ed. by Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Jean Jacques Becker.  Bayard, 2004.

European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918, ed. by Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites.  Cambridge, 1999 (CH, Sep’99, 37-0559).

Evans, James W., and Gardner L. Harding.  Entertaining the American Army: The American Stage and Lyceum in the World War.  Association Press, 1921.

Farwell, Byron.  Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918.  Norton, 1999.

The First World War and Popular Cinema: 1914 to the Present, ed. by Michael Paris.  Rutgers, 2000 (CH, Sep’00, 38-0200).

Forbes, James.  The Famous Mrs. Fair: And Other Plays.  George H. Doran, 1920.

Ford, Nancy Gentile.  Americans All!: Foreign-Born Soldiers in World War I.  Texas A&M, 2001 (CH, Jan’02, 39-2985).

____.  The Great War and America: Civil-Military Relations during World War I.  Praeger Security International, 2008 (CH, Feb’09, 46-3438).

Fuller, J. G.  Troop Morale and Popular Culture in the British and Dominion Armies, 1914-1918.  Oxford, 1990.

Furia, Philip, and Michael Lasser.  America’s Songs: The Stories behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley.  Routledge, 2006 (CH, Jan’07, 44-2620).

Fussell, Paul.  The Great War and Modern Memory.  Oxford, 1975.

Gavin, Lettie.  American Women in World War I: They Also Served.  Colorado, 1997 (CH, Nov’97, 35-1714).

Golden, Eve.  Vernon and Irene Castle’s Ragtime Revolution.  University Press of Kentucky, 2007 (CH, Jul’08, 45-6053).

Gottlieb, Lois C.  Rachel Crothers.  Twayne, 1979 (CH, Feb’80).

Gottlieb, Robert.  Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt.  Yale, 2010 (CH, Apr’11, 48-4362).

Gray, John, with Eric Peterson.  Billy Bishop Goes to War: A Play (1982).  [see Canada and the Theatre of War]

Hanna, Martha.  The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers during the Great War.  Harvard, 1996 (CH, Sep’97, 35-0506).

Harries, Meirion, and Susie Harries.  The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, 1917-1918.  Random House, 1997 (CH, Sep’97, 35-0458).

Harris, Bill.  The Hellfighters of Harlem: African-American Soldiers Who Fought for the Right to Fight for Their Country.  Carroll & Graf, 2002.

Harris, Stephen L.  Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I.  Brassey’s, 2003 (CH, Feb’04, 41-3631).

Hart, William S.  My Life East and West.  Houghton Mifflin, 1929.

Heimann, Nora M., and Laura Coyle.  Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America.  Corcoran Gallery of Art/D. Giles, 2006.

Hollywood’s World War I: Motion Picture Images, ed. by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor.  Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997 (CH, Jul’98, 35-6140).

Horrall, Andrew.  Popular Culture in London c. 1890-1918: The Transformation of Entertainment.  Manchester University Press, 2001 (CH, Apr’02, 39-4794).

Hynes, Samuel.  A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture.  Atheneum, 1991 (CH, Dec’91, 29-2258).

Intimate Enemies: English and German Literary Reactions to the Great War, 1914-1918, ed. by Franz Karl Stanzel and Martin Löschnigg.  Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1993.

Isenberg, Michael T.  War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914-1941.  Fairleigh Dickinson, 1981.

Jablonski, Edward.  Irving Berlin: American Troubadour.  H. Holt, 1999 (CH, Oct’99, 37-0842).

Jahn, Hubertus F.  Patriotic Culture in Russia during World War I.  Cornell, 1995.

Janis, Elsie.  The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces.  Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1919.

_____.  If I Know What I Mean.  G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925.

_____.  So Far, So Good!: An Autobiography.  E. P. Dutton & Co., 1932.

Johnson, James Weldon.  Black Manhattan.  Knopf, 1930; Atheneum, 1968.

Keene, Jennifer D.  Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America.  Johns Hopkins, 2001.

_____.  World War I: The American Soldier Experience.  Nebraska, 2011.

Kennedy, David M.  Over Here: The First World War and American Society.  Oxford, 1980; reissued as 25th anniversary ed., 2004.

Kimball, Robert, and William Bolcom.  Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake.  Viking, 1973.

Kingsbury, Celia Malone.  For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front.  Nebraska, 2010 (CH, Jan’11, 48-2830).

Kobler, John.  Otto, the Magnificent: The Life of Otto Kahn.  Scribner, 1988.

Kosok, Heinz.  The Theatre of War: The First World War in British and Irish Drama.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (CH, Mar’08, 45-3641).

Lauder, Harry.  A Minstrel in France. Hearst’s International Library Co., 1918; reissued, 1500 Books, 2006.

Leopold, David.  Irving Berlin’s Show Business.  Abrams, 2005.

Levere, William C.  My Hut: A Memoir of a YMCA Volunteer in World War One, ed. by Jenny Thompson.  iUniverse Inc., 2006.

Lewis, Alfred Allan.  Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women.  Viking, 2000.

McLean, Lorraine Arnal.  Dorothy Donnelly: A Life in the Theatre.  McFarland, 1999 (CH, Feb’00, 37-3292).

McReynolds, Louise.  Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era.  Cornell, 2003 (CH, Sep’03, 41-0488).

Macdonald, Lyn.  1914-1918: Voices & Images of the Great War.  London: Joseph, 1988.

Mayo, Margaret.  Trouping for the Troops: Fun-Making at the Front.  George H. Doran, 1919.

McGuinness, Frank.  Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.  Faber and Faber, 1986.

Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century, ed. by William Kidd and Brian Murdoch.  Ashgate, 2004.

Morpurgo, Michael.  War Horse.  Greenwillow Books, 1983; adapted for the stage by Nicholas Stafford (2007) and for film by Steven Spielberg (2011).  [see also Stafford, Nicholas]

Oh What a Lovely War, by Theatre Workshop, Charles Chilton, Gerry Raffles, and members of the original cast.  Rev. ed.  Methuen, 2000.

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane.  The Many Lives of Otto Kahn.  Macmillan, 1963; reprint, Pendragon, 1984.

Rearick, Charles.  The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars.  Yale, 1997 (CH, Dec’97, 35-2355).

Rinehart, Mary Roberts.  My Story.  Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.

Robb, George.  British Culture and the First World War.  Palgrave, 2002 (CH, Apr’03, 40-4839).

Roderick, Mary Louis Rochester.  A Nightingale in the Trenches.  Vantage Press, 1966.

Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider.  Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I.  Viking, 1991.

Shack, William A.  Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars.  California, 2001 (CH, Jan’02, 39-2722).

Shaw, Irwin.  Bury the Dead.  Random House, [1936].

Sherriff, R. C.  Journey’s End, a Play in Three Acts.  Brentano’s, 1929.

Sillars, Stuart.  Art and Survival in First World War Britain.  St. Martin’s, 1987.

Smith, Jane S.  Elsie de Wolfe: A Life in the High Style.  Atheneum, 1982.

Smith, Leonard V., Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker.  France and the Great War, 1914-1918, tr. by Helen McPhail.  Cambridge, 2003.

Solterer, Helen.  Medieval Roles for Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic.  Pennsylvania State, 2010 (CH, Dec’10, 48-1986).

Sorge, Reinhard.  The Beggar (1912).  [see The Lost Voices of World War I, ed. by Tim Cross].

Spivak, Jeffrey.  Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley.  Kentucky, 2011 (CH, Oct’11, 49-0756).

Squads Write!: A Selection of the Best Things in Prose, Verse and Cartoon from the Stars and Stripes, Official Newspaper of the A. E. F., ed. by John T. Winterich.  Harper & Bros., 1931.

Stafford, Nicholas.  War Horse (2007).  Faber and Faber, 2007.  [see also Morpurgo, Michael]

Stites, Richard.  Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900.  Cambridge, 1992 (CH, Jun’93, 30-5760).

Stovall, Tyler.  Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light.  Houghton Mifflin, 1996 (CH, Apr’87, 34-4704).

Stramm, August.  Awakening (1915).  [see The Lost Voices of World War I, ed. by Tim Cross]

Stromberg, Roland N.  Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914.  Regents Press of Kansas, 1982 (CH, Sep’82).

Sweeney, Regina M.  Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music during the Great War.  Wesleyan, 2001 (CH, Mar’02, 39-3890).

Le Théâtre monte au front, ed. by Chantal Meyer-Plantureaux.  Paris: Complexe, 2008.  [Not available in English translation.]

Thurston, Gary.  The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, 1862-1919.  Northwestern University, 1998.

Tylee, Claire M.  The Great War and Women’s Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women’s Writings, 1914-64.  Iowa, 1990.

War Plays by Women: An International Anthology, ed. by Claire M. Tylee with Elaine Turner and Agnes Cardinal.  Routledge, 1999 (CH, Jul’00, 37-6110).

Watkins, Glenn.  Proof through the Night: Music and the Great War.  California, 2003 (CH, Oct’03, 41-0844).

Wentworth, Marion Craig.  War Brides: A Play in One Act.  Century Co., 1915.

When This Bloody War Is Over: Soldiers’ Songs from the First World War, comp. by Max Arthur.  Piatkus, 2001.

Williams, Gordon.  British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation.  Continuum International Publishers Group, 2003 (CH, Apr’03, 41-4566).

Wohl, Robert.  The Generation of 1914.  Harvard, 1979 (CH, Jan’80).

Women, the First World War and the Dramatic Imagination: International Essays (1914-1999), ed. by Claire M. Tylee.  E. Mellen, 2000.

Woollcott, Alexander.  The Command Is Forward: Tales of the A. E. F. Battlefields as They Appeared in the Stars and Stripes.  Century Co., 1919.

____.  The Letters of Alexander Woollcott, ed. by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey.  Viking, 1944; reissued, Greenwood, 1972.

World War I and the Cultures of Modernity, ed. by Douglas Mackaman and Michael Mays.  University Press of Mississippi, 2000 (CH, Feb’11, 38-3544).

Zeiger, Susan.  In Uncle Sam’s Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919.  Cornell, 1999 (CH, Sep’00, 38-0531).