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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972. |
Collection Name: | Balloon: a Poetical Comedy in Three Acts |
Inclusive Dates: | circa 1920 |
Physical Description: | .1 linear feet |
Abstract: | Carbon typescript of Balloon, a Poetical Comedy in Three Acts. The first page contains the holographic inscription: "Early version of Balloon, my own typing. For the Thomas Wood Stevens Collection, a tribute to a valued friendship, Padraic Colum." The play is set at the Dadaelus Hotel in Nagalapolis, changed to Megalapolis in the published version, and is a satire of industrial society. |
Collection Number: | MS 073 |
Language: | Materials are in English. |
Repository: |
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Poet, playwright, folklorist, and author of children's books.
Carbon typescript of Balloon, a Poetical Comedy in Three Acts. The first page contains the holographic inscription: "Early version of Balloon, my own typing. For the Thomas Wood Stevens Collection, a tribute to a valued friendship, Padraic Colum." The play is set at the Dadaelus Hotel in Nagalapolis, changed to Megalapolis in the published version, and is a satire of industrial society.
Bound in agent's folio: Samuel French Plays, New York.
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Later version was published by Macmillan Company, 1929, and retitled: Balloon, a Comedy in Four Acts.
Balloon: a Poetical Comedy in Three Acts (MS 073). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
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