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Plays Worth Remembering is a two-volume set of 14 plays and two silent film screenplays by celebrated turn-of-the-20th century American playwright George Ade. Many of these works have never been published before and some do not exist in complete form anywhere else. Ade's plays offer a valuable and funny commentary on politics, community and social norms in the late 1800s/early 1900s. This set also contains Ade's brief autobiography, a description of his early years as a playwright, hand-drawn stage designs and choreography suggestions, photos, poster art, and much more. It will make a fine addition to the collections of students, scholars and other aficionados of theater and film history, the craft of writing for the stage and screen, Midwestern humor, and early 20th century arts and culture. Plays Worth Remembering will appeal to students, scholars and other aficionados of theatre and film, the art and craft of writing for the stage and screen, Midwestern history, American humor and early 20th century arts and culture. Volume 1 focuses on George Ade's full plays, many not found in print before now. Volume II includes musicals and Hollywood screen plays.

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William C. Ade, great-nephew of playwright George Ade, is an independent petroleum geologist specializing in international new ventures. Born and raised on a family farm in Indiana, he worked his way through school earning degrees in geology, physics and geology, and an MBA at Ball State. Will began his career in 1975 as a field geologist and geophysicist for Phillips Petroleum. Since the late-1970s his work has been primarily in Asia. In 1986 he founded a consulting company in Singapore generating wildcat exploration prospects, new ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. He has found commercial oil and gas with an estimated recovery of over 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent, holding royalties on several of the fields he discovered. Will has spoken at many industry conferences, and his comments have appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Barron's. Will divides his time between international travel and his homes in Indiana and Florida. He is the author of The Artworks of LuEthel Davis Ade, A Pioneer in the Fullest Sense: The Wit and Wisdom of George Ade's Father, and Wildcat Road: Indiana Farms to Asian Oil Fields to Tiger 21.

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