Bernard Sobel

{{short description|American dramatist}} {{Infobox writer |name = Bernard Sobel |image = |caption = |pseudonym = |birth_date = 1887 |birth_place = Attica, Indiana |death_date = {{death year and age|1964|1887}} |death_place = New York City |occupation = Author, publicist |nationality = American |genre = Drama |influences = |influenced = |magnum_opus = }}

'''Bernard Sobel''' (1887–1964) was an American playwright, a drama critic for the ''New York Daily Mirror'', an author of a number of books on theatre and theatre history, and a publicist.

==Career== Among his clients were Florenz Ziegfeld, Charles Dillingham, A. L. Erlanger, and Lee, Sam, and Jacob Shubert.<ref name="Oxford"/>

A collection of Bernard Sobel's papers from 1923–1962 is in the possession of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

He was born in Attica, Indiana<ref name="Oxford">{{Citation | editor-last = Bordman | editor-first = Gerald Martin | editor-link = Gerald Bordman | editor2-last = Hischak | editor2-first = Thomas S. | editor2-link = Thomas S. Hischak | title = Bernard Sobel | encyclopedia = The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | page = 580 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 2004 | oclc = 53138731 | isbn = 978-0-19-516986-7}}</ref> and died in New York City.<ref>{{citation | journal = Wisconsin Alumnus | title = Necrology | volume = 65 | issue = 8 | publisher = Wisconsin Alumni Association | location = Madison, Wisconsin | date = May 1964 | page = 31 | oclc = 6525962 | url = http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=div&did=UW.V65I8.I0017&isize=text}}</ref>

== Select works ==

=== Plays === * ''Jennie Knows'' (1913) * ''Mrs. Bompton's Dinner Party'' (1913) * ''There's Always A Reason'' (1913)

=== Articles ===

* {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | journal = The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life | title = The Language Of The Theatre | publisher = Dodd, Mead and Company | year = 1929 | volume = 69 | location = New York | oclc = 228771241}}

=== Books ===

* {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | title = Burleycue; An Underground History of Burlesque Days | publisher = Farrar & Rinehart | year = 1931 | location = New York | oclc = 1808911}} * {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | title = The Indiscret Girl | publisher = Grosset & Dunlap | year = 1933 | location = New York | oclc = 24040918}} * {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | title = The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays | publisher = Crown Publishers | year = 1940 | location = New York | oclc = 9596386}} * {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | title = Broadway Heartbeat: Memoirs of a Press Agent | publisher = Hermitage House | year = 1953 | location = New York | oclc = 1514676}} * {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | title = A Pictorial History of Burlesque | publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons | year = 1956 | location = New York | oclc = 265486}} * {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | title = A Pictorial History of Vaudeville | publisher = Citadel Press | year = 1961 | location = New York | oclc = 300831}} * {{citation | first1 = Bernard | last1 = Sobel | authorlink1 = Bernard Sobel | title = The New Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays | publisher = Crown Publishers | year = 1959 | location = New York | oclc = 297270487}}

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == *[http://archives.nypl.org/the/18952 Bernard Sobel papers, 1823-1965 (bulk 1901-1965)], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts {{Authority control}}

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