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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 792.092 EAN: 9780813210827 ISBN: 0813210828 Label: Catholic University of America Press Manufacturer: Catholic University of America Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 383 Publication Date: 2002-03 Publisher: Catholic University of America Press Studio: Catholic University of America Press Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Fortune magazine called Gilbert V. Hartke one of the five most powerful men in Washington, D.C. He was at once a flamboyant showman, respected statesman, and devout Dominican priest. The day after his death in February 1986, the Washington Post mourned him with a moving editorial and a full-page obituary that declared, "Father Hartke was a figure of legendary stature in the Washington theater community, but his influence and reputation extended far beyond..." In this long-awaited biography, Mary Jo Santo Pietro chronicles Father Hartke's experiences and endless achievements by combining his own stories, taped weekly during the last year of his life, with stories told by friends, colleagues, and celebrities. The book offers an inside look at major theatrical and political events in the nation's capital from the 1930s through the 1980s, and also uncovers the complex and paradoxical character of the man known as the "White House priest" and "Show Biz priest." Father Hartke founded and for thirty-seven years headed the famed Speech and Drama Department at the Catholic University of America. It was the first of its kind at an American Catholic college, and it shaped dozens of Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer prize-winning actors, directors, and playwrights. Hartke founded America's oldest classical touring company, wrote five full-length plays, directed more than seventy plays, sent nine productions to Broadway, and received numerous honorary doctorates and awards. He was a presidential envoy to several countries, a member of the first National Council on the Arts, and a leader in the campaigns to end racial discrimination in Washington's theaters, to build the Kennedy Center, and to construct the CUA theater that now bears his name. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Job Well Done, Dr. Santo Pietro.I never knew Father Hartke. My uncle, Louis Camuti Jr. attended Catholic University for BA in Drama (1949) and his graduate work in drama (1951). He was a member of tour group 3, the first group to go overseas. Group 3 went to Korea during the war to entertain the troops. My uncle was a most wonderful man, but died when I was 18 in 1970. Louie attended CU when he got back from the fighting during WWII. Louies' time at CU was probably his happiest, and the most wonder-filled of his life. Read More Rating:  - Well Done, Kid!This book attempts to accomplish two missions. One, it meets Father Hartke's requirement that it be a history of the Drama Department of Catholic University. In so doing it must necessarily also be a biography of one Gilbert V. Hartke. This is a huge and daunting assignment which Ms Santo Pietro takes on. That she succeeds as well as she does is an amazing achievement. I never thought I would find Father Hartke captured within the confines of a book. I knew him as a teacher, director, ... Read More 
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