W. D. Howells in the News
News items featuring W. D. Howells.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
From "Vaudeville's brief, shining moment" at City-Journal.org
In the new century, these performances that cost so little—rarely more than $1— and gave so much, beguiled not just the common folk but intellectuals, too. As novelist William Dean Howells wrote in Harper’s, “I am an inveterate vaudeville-goer, for the simple reason that I find better acting, and better drama, than you get on your legitimate stage.”
