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WANTED, IN THE OLD WEST, AND IN VICTORIAN THEATRE AS WELL PART 2

YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we saw British polymath Robert Harling rise (possibly from orphenhood, possibly not) to become a typographer (Playbill font, 1938), an editorial trainee (twice, not for long … Continue reading

September 3, 2022 · Leave a comment

WANTED, IN THE OLD WEST, AND IN VICTORIAN THEATRE AS WELL PART 1

THESE TIDBITS, IN PARTS 1 AND 2 today and tomorrow, are about Robert Harling’s Playbill typography (which, curiously, has nothing to do with Playbill, the theater magazine described in “Prokofiev, … Continue reading

September 2, 2022 · Leave a comment