WRITING FOR VAUDEVILLE

WITH NINE COMPLETE EXAMPLES OF VARIOUS VAUDEVILLE FORMS BY
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, AARON HOFFMAN, EDGAR ALLAN WOOLF,
TAYLOR GRANVILLE, LOUIS WESLYN, ARTHUR DENVIR, AND JAMES
MADISON

BY BRETT PAGE

AUTHOR OF "CLOSE HARMONY," "CAMPING DAYS," "MEMORIES," ETC.

DRAMATIC EDITOR, NEWSPAPER FEATURE SERVICE, NEW YORK

THE WRITER'S LIBRARY
EDITED BY J. BERG ESENWEIN



FOREWORD


Can you be taught how to write for vaudeville? If you have the
native gift, what experienced writers say about its problems, what
they themselves have accomplished, and the means by which it has
been wrought, will be of help to you. So much this book offers,
and more I would not claim for it.

Although this volume is the first treatise on the subject of which
I know, it is less an original offering than a compilation. Growing
out of a series of articles written in collaboration with Mr.