HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXXIV

THE SEVEN LIVELY ARTS
Copyright, 1924
By Harper & Brothers
Printed in the U. S. A.
First Edition
B-Y

TO MY FATHER

CONTENTS

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The Keystone the Builders Rejected[3]
An Imaginary Conversation[27]
“I Am Here To-Day”: Charlie Chaplin[41]
Say It with Music[57]
Tearing a Passion to Ragtime[69]
Toujours Jazz[83]
Mr Dooley, Meet Mr Lardner[111]
A Tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld[129]
The Darktown Strutters on Broadway[149]
Plan for a Lyric Theatre in America[161]
The One-Man Show[177]
The Dæmonic in the American Theatre[191]
These, Too[203]
The “Vulgar” Comic Strip[213]
The Krazy Kat That Walks by Himself[231]
The Damned Effrontery of the Two-a-Day[249]
They Call It Dancing[267]
St Simeon Stylites[277]
Burlesque, Circus, Clowns, and Acrobats[291]
The True and Inimitable Kings of Laughter[297]
The Great God Bogus[309]
An Open Letter to the Movie Magnates[323]
Before a Picture by Picasso[345]
APPENDICES
Appendix to “I Am Here To-Day”[361]
“Bananas” and Other Songs[367]
Appendix to “These, Too...”[374]
The Krazy Kat Ballet[377]
Further Note on the Fratellini[380]
The Cinema Novel[383]
Acknowledgments[391]

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