Brett Page

Brett Page is remembered for Writing for Vaudeville, an early practical handbook on how vaudeville acts were built, shaped, and sold. In the book, he presents the craft in plain, usable terms and draws on both his own experience and the advice of working performers and writers.

The book identifies him as the author of Close Harmony, Camping Days, and Memories, and as a dramatic editor with a New York newspaper feature service. In his foreword, he explains that Writing for Vaudeville grew out of articles written with William C. Lengel for The Green Book Magazine, then expanded through interviews and contributions from many people in the vaudeville world.

Reliable biographical details about his life beyond that are hard to confirm from the sources I found. Even so, his surviving work remains valuable for readers interested in theater history, comedy writing, and the practical mechanics of popular entertainment in the early twentieth century.