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Title: The Broadway Anthology

Author: Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley, Murdock Pemberton

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The
Broadway Anthology

BY

EDWARD L. BERNAYS
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN
WALTER J. KINGSLEY
MURDOCK PEMBERTON

NEW YORK
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1917

Copyright, 1917
BY DUFFIELD & COMPANY

VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK

Acknowledgment is due to the _New York Evening
Post_, _Sun_, _Times_, _Tribune_, the _Boston Transcript_
and the _Wilmarth Publishing Company_ for their kind
permission to reprint some of the matter in this volume.

CONTENTS

EDWARD L. BERNAYS

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN
THE BARITONE
PATRIOTISM
THE PILLOW CASES
BETTER INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
THE PRIMA DONNA
PRESS STORIES
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CREDIT
TEARS
PHOTOGRAPHS

SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN

THE THEATRE SCRUBWOMAN DREAMS A DREAM
THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MUSICAL COMEDY STAR
THE STAR IS WAITING TO SEE THE MANAGER
THE JESTER
IN A CAFE
TO A CABARET SINGER
IN THE THEATRE

WALTER J. KINGSLEY

LO, THE PRESS AGENT
FIRST NIGHTS
THE DRAMATIST
TYPES
GEORGE M. COHAN
DAVID BELASCO
LO, THE HEADLINER

MURDOCK PEMBERTON

THE SCREEN
BROADWAY--NIGHT
MATINEE
PAVLOWA
THE OLD CHORUS MAN
BLUCH LANDOLF'S TALE
PRE-EMINENCE

EDWARD L. BERNAYS

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN

He was a burly Dutch tenor,
And I patiently trailed him in his waking and sleeping hours
That I might not lose a story,--
But his life was commonplace and unimaginative--
Air raids and abdications kept his activities,
(A game of bridge yesterday, a ride to Tarrytown),
Out of the papers.
I watchfully waited,
Yearning a coup that would place him on the
Musical map.
A coup, such as kissing a Marshal Joffre,
Aeroplaning over the bay,
Divin