Fifty Years of Make-Believe

Fredrick Warde / 1920

International Press Syndicate

I found this to be a fascinating book. Although I'd never heard of the author before, I immediately made an
effort to search out any memorabila I could find pertaining to him. The best I found was
the article from Educational Theatre Journal [Vol. 29, No. 3 (Oct., 1977), pp. 333-344] by Alan Woods entitled:
Frederick B. Warde: America's Greatest Forgotten Tragedian

I also found a DVD copy of a silent film version of King Lear he made in 1916.

"A SILENT Shakespeare?," you might ask - but it does give one an indictation of Warde's 19th century acting style which was always compensating for poor
theater lighting and the distance from far-off balconies. It may seem over-done by today's standards, but this is the dramatic style his audiences expected.

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( 5 x 7 1/2 " / 310 pages )

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