FOR BACKSTAGE BOYS
A DICTIONARY OF THEATRICAL TERMS, by Wilfred Granville; Detitsch. English price, 12/6. R. GRANVILLE has rescued from possible oblivion much of the considerable backstage ‘ language of the theatre and to an old "pro" there is delight and excitement on every page. There are many inadequacies and inaccuracies: "Bay" is a nickname not. only for Henry Baynton, but nowadays more génerally for that fine Shakespearian Balliol Holloway, and a longish list could be made of omissions and slight errors or variations in slang, jargon and technical terms. The Arts Council and the Garrick Club are glaring omissions when C.E.M.A. (too brief) and the Interval Club are included. Even Actors’ Equity gets only a glancing reference in a fine and merited tribute to "Dame May" Whitty. Not to be carping and pedantic, however, this volume is a valuable addition to Eric Partridge’s Language Library. series, and: with entries enlarged . and corrected and with much fuller cross references, it would be of value to scholar as well as thespian. ;
John V.
Trevor
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 13
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172FOR BACKSTAGE BOYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 13
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