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T. S. Denison & Company, Thomas Stewart Denison's company, was a publisher in Chicago. It published pamphlets on popular entertainments including vaudeville sketches, songs, and poems. It published a Half Hour Dramas series and Denison's Blackface Series. It published Denison's Illustrated Song Pantomimes.[1]
In 1893 Dennison wrote and published How Not to Write a Play. The firm's address was 163 Randolph Street.[2] He wrote Lively Plays for Live People published in 1895.[3]
In 1877 his farce A Family Strike was published "by the author De Kalb, Ill." and printed on the steam press of Cushing, Thomas & Co. in Chicago.[4] Arthur LeRoy Kaser
Arthur L. Kaser https://books.google.com/books?id=WFXIBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167&dq=Denison%27s+Blackface.Series
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Publishings
[edit]- A Poetical Entertainer, the Old Schoolhouse and Other Poems and Conceits in Verse (1902)[5]
- A Minister Pro Tem (1914), a comedietta by Katharine Kavanaugh[6]
- Good Things for Sunday Schools (1916)
- The White Christmas, and many other Christmas plays(1917)[7][8]
- Riley Readings with Living Pictures (1921)[9]
- Deviled Crabs, A Vaudeville Act (1922) by T. Wanamaker Balance[10]
- Story-Plays for Every Day and Holidays by Nina B. Lamkin
References
[edit]- ^ "The Star-Spangled Banner" (PDF).
- ^ "How not to write a play".
- ^ "Lively plays for live people, by Thomas Stewart Denison" (PDF).
- ^ "A family strike. A farce".
- ^ ""A poetical entertainer," the old schoolhouse and other poems and conceits in verse". Library of Congress.
- ^ "A minister pro tem, a comedietta".
- ^ "Good things for Sunday schools : A complete entertainer, containing recitations, monologues, dialogues, exercises, drills, tableaux and plays" (PDF).
- ^ "English". 1917.
- ^ "Riley readings with living pictures" (PDF).
- ^ "Deviled crabs".