The cave man [collection] : a play in four acts / [by Gelett Burgess] [1911?]

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The cave man [collection] : a play in four acts / [by Gelett Burgess] [1911?]

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A typed promptbook for Act I only. "The cave man" premiered at the Fulton Theatre, New York on October 30, 1911. The play is an adaptation by Burgess of his novel "Lady Mechante." (Cf. New York Public Library, The Research Libraries Catalog of the Theatre and Drama collections)

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University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System

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Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

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American author and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was educated as an engineer and worked briefly for a railroad. He taught topographical drawing between 1891 and 1894 at the University of California, Berkeley until he lost his position after deliberately toppling a campus statue he found to be an eyesore. Burgess founded the Lark, a humour magazine based in San Francisco, published from 1895 to 1897. Burgess created nonsense rhymes and cartoons such as "The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Myt...