Bernard Sobel
{{short description|American dramatist}}
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|birth_date = 1887
|birth_place = Attica, Indiana
|death_date = {{death year and age|1964|1887}}
|death_place = New York City
|occupation = Author, publicist
|nationality = American
|genre = Drama
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Bernard Sobel (1887–1964) was an American playwright, a drama critic for the New York Daily Mirror, an author of a number of books on theatre and theatre history, and a publicist.
Career
Among his clients were Florenz Ziegfeld, Charles Dillingham, A. L. Erlanger, and Lee, Sam, and Jacob Shubert.
A collection of Bernard Sobel's papers from 1923-1962 is in the possession of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He was born in Attica, Indiana{{Citation
| editor-last = Bordman
| editor-first = Gerald Martin
| editor-link = Gerald Bordman
| editor2-last = Hischak
| editor2-first = Thomas S.
| editor2-link = Thomas S. Hischak
| title = Bernard Sobel
| encyclopedia = The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
| page = 580
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| location = New York
| year = 2004
| oclc = 53138731
| isbn = 978-0-19-516986-7}} and died in New York City.{{citation
| journal = Wisconsin Alumnus
| title = Necrology
| volume = 65
| issue = 8
| publisher = Wisconsin Alumni Association
| location = Madison, Wisconsin
| date = May 1964
| page = 31
| oclc = 6525962
| url = http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=div&did=UW.V65I8.I0017&isize=text}}
Select works
= Plays =
- Jennie Knows (1913)
- Mrs. Bompton's Dinner Party (1913)
- There's Always A Reason (1913)
= Articles =
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| journal = The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life
| title = The Language Of The Theatre
| publisher = Dodd, Mead and Company
| year = 1929
| volume = 69
| location = New York
| oclc = 228771241}}
= Books =
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| title = Burleycue; An Underground History of Burlesque Days
| publisher = Farrar & Rinehart
| year = 1931
| location = New York
| oclc = 1808911}}
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| title = The Indiscret Girl
| publisher = Grosset & Dunlap
| year = 1933
| location = New York
| oclc = 24040918}}
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| title = The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays
| publisher = Crown Publishers
| year = 1940
| location = New York
| oclc = 9596386}}
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| title = Broadway Heartbeat: Memoirs of a Press Agent
| publisher = Hermitage House
| year = 1953
| location = New York
| oclc = 1514676}}
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| title = A Pictorial History of Burlesque
| publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons
| year = 1956
| location = New York
| oclc = 265486}}
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| title = A Pictorial History of Vaudeville
| publisher = Citadel Press
| year = 1961
| location = New York
| oclc = 300831}}
- {{citation
| first1 = Bernard
| last1 = Sobel
| authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel
| title = The New Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays
| publisher = Crown Publishers
| year = 1959
| location = New York
| oclc = 297270487}}
References
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External links
- [http://archives.nypl.org/the/18952 Bernard Sobel papers, 1823-1965 (bulk 1901-1965)], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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Category:American literary critics
Category:People from Attica, Indiana
Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers
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