The Champagne Charlie Stakes

Author : Bruce Graham
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822213628
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Champagne Charlie Stakes written by Bruce Graham and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: It's a very special day at the racetrack, where Champagne Charlie, a race-track regular, has had a race named in his honor. A dreamer and teller of tall tales, Charlie is accompanied by his wife of fifty-three years, Mary Lee, an incur

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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australasian Coursing Calendar ... Containing Returns of All Public Courses Run in Australia, with Extended Pedigrees of Winning Greyhounds and Greyhounds at the Stud written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Warren Baer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champagne Charlie!, Or, The "sports" of New York written by Warren Baer and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Hilton
Publisher : Book Guild Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781846242281
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champagne, Charlie and Me written by Deborah Hilton and published by Book Guild Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MODERN FICTION. A hilarious and racy tale of one woman's romp through London's gangster underworld. Written with humour, wit and great attention to detail, Champagne, Charlie and Me plumbs the depths of the gangster underworld: the lines of cocaine, the champagne, the dodgy deals, the revenge killings. Gangland boss, Terry Millian, thinks he's got it all: the nightclub empire, the string of brothels, the brassy blonde on his arm. But what he doesn't know is that events from the past are about to catch up with him, and things will never be the same again. Seduced by the ostentatious wealth and the all-night parties, Nicola, a young innocent, is pulled down into a murky world of murder and revenge. Already having a drink problem herself, her immersion in the seedy nightclub business only makes the downward spiral more inevitable. Is it too late for her?

Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557831477
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992 written by Otis L. Guernsey and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1991-1992 season, including: Conversations With My Father * Crazy for You * Dancing at Lughnasa * The Extra Man * Fires in the Mirror * Lips Together, Teeth Apart * Mad Forest * Marvin's Room * Sight Unseen * Two Trains Running. This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschfeld's complete gallery of the theater season as well as essays and statistics about the season around the United States, the Off-Off-Broadway season, the various awards, and more. Also includes lots of photos from the productions.

Author : Don Kladstrup
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640125035
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champagne Charlie written by Don Kladstrup and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Champagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth century and became famously known as Champagne Charlie. Ignoring critics who warned that America was a dangerous place to do business, Heidsieck plunged right in, considering it “the land of opportunity” and succeeding there beyond his wildest dreams. Those dreams, however, became a nightmare when the Civil War erupted and he was imprisoned and nearly executed after being charged with spying for the Confederacy. Only after the Lincoln administration intervened was Heidsieck’s life saved, but his champagne business had gone bankrupt and was virtually dead. Then, miraculously, Heidsieck became owner of nearly half the city of Denver, the fastest-growing city in the West. By selling the land, Heidsieck was eventually able to resurrect his business to its former glory. For all its current-day glamour, effervescence, and association with the high life, champagne had a lackluster start. It was pale red in color, insipid in taste, and completely flat. In fact, champagne-makers, including the legendary Dom Pérignon, fought strenuously to eliminate bubbles. Champagne’s success can be traced back to King Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon Bonaparte, countless wars and prohibitions, and, most important to the United States, Charles Heidsieck. Champagne Charlie tells the history of champagne and the thrilling tale of how the go-to celebratory drink of our time made its way to the United States, thanks to the controversial figure of Heidsieck.

Author : Gillian M Rodger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098056
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima written by Gillian M Rodger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations, emerging in the 1840s as a vehicle to accentuate class divisions and stoke curiosity about gender and sexuality. Cross-dressing acts were a regular feature of these entertainments, and Rodger profiles key male impersonators Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner while examining how both gender and sexuality gave shape to variety. By the last two decades of the nineteenth century, variety theater developed into a platform for ideas about race and whiteness. As some in the working class moved up into the middling classes, they took their affinity for variety with them, transforming and broadening middle-class values. Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima places the saloon keepers, managers, male impersonators, minstrels, acrobats, singers, and dancers of the variety era within economic and social contexts by examining the business models of variety shows and their primarily white, working-class urban audiences. Rodger traces the transformation of variety from sexualized entertainment to more family-friendly fare, a domestication that mirrored efforts to regulate the industry, as well as the adoption of aspects of middle-class culture and values by the shows' performers, managers, and consumers.

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822227175
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Author : Warren Baer
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Champagne Charlie! written by Warren Baer and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B.G. Hilton
Publisher : Odyssey Books
ISBN 13 : 1922311022
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys written by B.G. Hilton and published by Odyssey Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hungover aristocrat Edward "Charlie" Decharles awakens in the back of a steam-cab, only to discover that the driver has been murdered. Unused to feeling responsible for anything, he feels compelled to find the killer. As he investigates, he meets "The Amazing" Gladys Dunchurch, a stage magician's assistant whose employer has disappeared – and not in a good way. They form an alliance – Charlie will help Gladys with his considerable resources and Gladys will help Charlie with her even more considerable brains. Soon they discover that their respective mysteries are not only connected to each other, but related to other seemingly unrelated strangeness transpiring in London – the murder of an astronomer, an attack on a patent medicine factory, a mysterious cult in an idyllic town, and reports of deadly creatures in the London sewers. Charlie and Gladys find themselves pitted against dead-eyed assassins, murderous pirates, wingless flying machines, and perhaps even creatures from beyond this Earth. And lurking behind it all lies a sinister cabal that knows the secret origin of the steam-powered society that powers their world. Can our heroes save the day, or will the fallout from that secret destroy two worlds? Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys is a fun, witty Steampunk adventure yarn, featuring a cast of eccentric characters.