Articles“The Sweetheart of the A.E.F.”
Londré recalls how Elsie Janis, a Kansas City performer, went overseas during World War I to entertain American soldiers. Unlike many other actors who traveled abroad, Janis journeyed without the sponsorship of an aid organization, accompanied only by her mother.
The UMRB grant gave me the time to go to the downtown library and sit there all day, reading newspapers, immersed in the past.
Preserving the Enchanted Years of the Stage
Felicia Hardison Londré
Professor, Theatre
UM Kansas City
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Related Links
- Londré's Departmental Website
- Theatre Department at UMKC
- Kansas City Repertory Theatre (formerly Missouri Repertory Theatre)
- The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre (2007)
- “Lorca in Metamorphosis: His Posthumous Plays”
- Jackson County Historical Society
- "The Kansas City Stage: A Personal View of Our Theatre" (lecture by Londré)
- "A Streetcar Running Fifty Years" (article by Londré)
- The Questionable Identity of Shakespeare (video podcast - iTunes required)
- "Twitting O’Neill: His Plays of the 1920s Subjected to La Critique Créatrice"