*Full Title:* Sheldon's Gift: Music, Movies and Melodrama in the Desirable City
*Description:* Sheldon’s Gift recounts the often stormy 150-year history of theaters and show business in Red Wing, Minnesota. In narrative
and analysis, Olson traces the story of itinerant actors and musicians, grand and not-so-grand opera houses, Hollywood’s beginnings and Golden Age, the disappearance of single screens, and the rebirth of the Sheldon, a municipal grand opera house and a dazzling survivor. Far more than a local history,
Sheldon’s Gift addresses the unique predicaments of
entertainment enterprises, highbrow and low, in America’s heartland small cities. More than an account of theaters and movie houses, it is also a richly detailed, tumultuous, and at times melodramatic story replete with rascals, heroes, shenanigans, and courtroom drama.
*Author:* Thomas L. Olson
*Page Count:* 260 pages
*ISBN-10:* 0-87839-318-8
*ISBN-13:* 978-0-87839-318-3
<p><strong>Full Title:</strong> Sheldon’s Gift: Music, Movies and Melodrama in the Desirable City</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> Sheldon’s Gift recounts the often stormy 150-year history of theaters and show business in Red Wing, Minnesota. In narrative<br />
and analysis, Olson traces the story of itinerant actors and musicians, grand and not-so-grand opera houses, Hollywood’s beginnings and Golden Age, the disappearance of single screens, and the rebirth of the Sheldon, a municipal grand opera house and a dazzling survivor. Far more than a local history,<br />
Sheldon’s Gift addresses the unique predicaments of<br />
entertainment enterprises, highbrow and low, in America’s heartland small cities. More than an account of theaters and movie houses, it is also a richly detailed, tumultuous, and at times melodramatic story replete with rascals, heroes, shenanigans, and courtroom drama.</p>
<p><strong>Author:</strong> Thomas L. Olson</p>
<p><strong>Page Count:</strong> 260 pages</p>
<p><strong><span class="caps">ISBN</span>-10:</strong> 0-87839-318-8</p>
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