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last

year's

Broadway

hits, are cataloged-172 in

the audience will be invited through the pass door on to
the stage for a closer look, and may leave through the

one-play-to-a-volume editions, the others in 134
collections of plays by single authors, in 130 anthologies
of modern plays (containing from four to 20 plays per
volume), 17 song-books collecting the lyrics and piano
scores of major musical comedy song-writers (three
celebrating George Gershwin's 75th anniversary in 1973),
31 anthologies collecting plays from the 16th, 17th and
18th centuries, and 30 anthologies of ancient Greek and

stage door.

Roman plays.

ing a series of Theatre Teach-Ins through September. This
series will be produced at a famous London playhouse,
Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Road. While the
Teach-I n will take place in the auditorium, making use of
projections, demonstrations and special effects, at the end

I n order to achieve an intimate rapport between
lecturer and participants (who will be invited to put their
questions) the numbers will have to be restricted to
seating in the stalls and dress circle.
Wyndham's Theatre is a particularly appropriate setting
as it is one of the finest examples of an Edwardian
playhouse, is listed as a building of historic and architectural interest, and has recently been restored with the
financial assistance and cooperation of the Historic
Building Board.
As an aid to the understanding of some of the technical
points there will be an illustrated programme with a
glossary of a number of the terms used, and explanatory
notes.
At £ 1.00 the one-and-a-half hour programme represents
exceptional value, and tickets are available from the box
office (01-8363028), and the usual ticket agents.
Wesleyan University Press, publishers of a number of
fine illustrated volumes on design and technical theatre,
have announced a new paperbound edition of The
Scenography of Josef Svoboda by Jarka Burian. While the
price, $8.95, is somewhat higher than your garden variety
paperbound book, the Burian volume is worth every
penny. For further information, contact your local
bookseller or write: Wesleyan University Press, 356
Washington St., Middletown, Conn. 06457.
Devotees of theatre, film and dance can obtain a new
48-page, up-to-date annotated check-list of 2,100 of the
latest and standard books on these subjects (divided into
39 classifications) by requesting a copy of the
just-publ ished 1974 Theatre Book Catalog from Package
Publicity Service, Inc., 1564 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
10036. and enclosing 35¢ to cover mailing costs.
Both cloth-bound and paperback editions of all major
publishers are listed in this Theatre Book Catalog, with
their retail prices and their authors, and in most cases with
a description of each book.
This is the most complete bibliography of performing
arts books in existence, except for "Performing Arts
Books in Print" (duly listed in the Catalog on page 25)
which contains 7,000 titles, is priced at $32.50 and is now
a year old (no recent publications included).

Other convenient classifications of theatre books are
biographies and autobiographies, studies on playwrights,
surveys and observations, theatrical histories, criticism,
reference-books, introductory texts, puppetry, gag-files
and books on such techniques as acting, make-up,
playwriting, costuming, directing, scenery, lighting, sound,
administration,
stage
management,
publicity, and
theatre-bu iIdi ng.
Four hundred and ten books dealing with films are
similarly compiled into separate listings, including one of
45 scripts of outstanding films, with stills of those films.
There are also separate listings of books on dance, opera,
rad io and television.
Strong Electric recently passed another milestone in its
service of providing specialized lighting equipment. The
occasion was the delivery of serial number 70,000
lamphouse which happened to be a Strong Trouper follow
spotlight shipped to Buffalo, New York.
The fabricating, testing and shipment of this particular
serial number lamphouse was carried on in a strictly
routine manner in the busy Strong plant in Toledo, Ohio
and there was no pause for reflection or celebration at the
time. It was only several weeks afterward that the
realization came that another production benchmark had
been passed.
The continuity of the Strong serial numbers extends
back to the first motion picture projection lamp houses
manufactured in 1926 and includes all un its manufactured
since, whether for motion picture, spot-lighting, slide
projection or graphic arts end use.
Strong Electric's president, Art Hatch, points out that
seventy thousand units is an enormous figure considering
the limited and specialized segments of the markets served
by these types of lighting products. For motion picture
projection alone Strong has built enough Mighty Ninety,
Futura, Magnarc, Utility, Simplex, X-16, X-60B and
Lume-X lamphouses to provide two units in every
presently operated indoor and outdoor 35mm film theatre
in the United States and have enough left over to take
care of all of Canada.

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