{"product_id":"greasepaint-puritan-boston-to-42nd-street-in-the-queer-backstage-novels-of-bradford-ropes-9780472056576","title":"Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreasepaint Puritan\u003c\/i\u003e details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel \u003ci\u003e42nd Street\u003c\/i\u003e, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Inspired by Ropes's own experiences as a performer, \u003ci\u003e42nd Street \u003c\/i\u003e\"reads less like a novel than like a documentary about the lives of New York's theatre people and, above all, about the practicalities, the personalities, and the sexual politics that go into the making of a show,\" according to Richard Brody in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Why did Ropes's body of work--which included a trilogy of backstage novels--and consequently his biographical footsteps, disappear into obscurity?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eDescended from Mayflower Pilgrims, Ropes rebelled against the \"Proper Bostonian\" life, in a career that touched upon the Jazz Age, American vaudeville, and theater censorship. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eGreasepaint Puritan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e follows Ropes's successful career as both a performer and the author of the backstage novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003es 42nd Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eStage Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eGo Into Your Dance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e. Populated by scheming stage mothers, precocious stage children, grandiose bit players, and tart-tongued chorines, these novels centered on the lives and relationships of gay men on Broadway during the Jazz Age and Prohibition era. Rigorously researched, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eGreasepaint Puritan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e chronicles Ropes's career as a successful screenwriter in 1930s and '40s Hollywood, where he continued to be a part of a dynamic gay subculture within the movie industry before returning to obscurity in the 1950s. His legacy lives on in the Hollywood and Broadway incarnations of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e42nd Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eGreasepaint Puritan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e restores the \"forgotten melody\" of the man who first envisioned its colorful characters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maya Cantu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47848355070235,"sku":"9780472056576","price":44.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/products\/greasepaint-puritan-boston-to-42nd-street-in-the-queer-backstage-novels-of-bradford-ropes-sapphic-society-64618.jpg?v=1751752022","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/en-ca\/products\/greasepaint-puritan-boston-to-42nd-street-in-the-queer-backstage-novels-of-bradford-ropes-9780472056576","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}