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xvi+193 pages with photographs, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.In 1936 as Texas prepared to celebrate its centennial—100 years after the Battle of San Jacinto—Dallas was chosen as the site of the official exhibition. Plans were under way for a modest Frontier Days Celebration in Fort Worth—until Star-Telegram publisher and civic booster Amon G. Carter stepped in. Carter considered the naming of Dallas as the official site a gross miscarriage of justice and was determined to get even by mounting a show that would directly rival the official event—and pull tourist dollars into Fort Worth. To put his celebration together Carter hired flamboyant Broadway producer Billy Rose. The result was Fort Worth's Frontier Centennial, an improbable conglomeration of agricultural exhibits, sideshow nudes, an old-time Wild West show, Rose's musicalized circus…
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- Title Billy Rose Presents... Casa Manana
- Author Jones, Jan
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- Publisher Texas Christian University Press, Forth Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780875651996
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- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
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