Balloon: a Poetical Comedy in Three Acts
Inscription on page 1 of Balloon by Padriac Colum that reads "For the Thomas Woods Stevens Collection a tribute to a valued friendship", circa 1929.
Collection area: Performing Arts
Collection dates: circa 1920
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.
Poet, playwright, folklorist, and author of children's books.
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