American Museum of Vaudeville
Cullen, Frank, 1936-,
McNeilly, Donald,
Rooney, Julia, 1887-1990
Clinton, Walter,
Dixon, Jessica,
Errol, Leon, 1881-1951,
Freeman, Frank,
Johnson, Chic, 1891-1962,
Keith, Cato Sells,
McWatters, Arthur, 1871-1963,
Olson, Ole, 1892-1963,
Rae, Doreen,
Rooney, Pat, 1880-1962,
Rooney, Pat, 1926-,
Serova, Sonia,
Sidney, Frank J.,
Collection Name:
American Vaudeville Museum
collection,
Inclusive Dates:
1845-2007
Bulk Dates:
(bulk 1910-1940)
Physical Description:
66.8 Linear Feet
Abstract:
This collection consists of materials documenting vaudeville
and other entertainment in the United States, particularly in the 1910s through
1940s. Primary materials such as photographs, scrapbooks and handwritten stage
scripts document the careers of particular performers. There are substantial numbers
of sheet music and theatre programs, and a large LP collection. The collection
focuses on vaudeville but encompasses other forms and eras of American entertainment
as well.
Collection Number:
MS 421
Language:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu
Biographical Note
This archive was collected by Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly, founders of the
American Museum of Vaudeville (commonly referred to as the American Vaudeville
Museum) in Boston. Many of the materials pertain to the Boston and New York areas.
Some items were purchased by Cullen and McNeilly; others were contributed by fans
and other interested persons, or by family members of performers from the vaudeville
era. Many of the histories gathered by Cullen and McNeilly were published in their
periodical, The Vaudeville Times. The culmination of their research appeared in
their two-volume encyclopedia, Vaudeville Old & New, co-authored also by
Florence Hackman. The collection was donated by the Museum in 2008.
Scope and Content Note
This collection, originally located at the American Vaudeville Museum in Boston,
comprises theatre programs and postcards, sheet music, magazines, playbills,
photographs and posters, stage scripts and other manuscripts, clippings and
scrapbooks, films, miscellaneous papers, and a large collection of LP albums, as
well as some entertainers' costumes and accessories. Some materials are included as
photocopies rather than in original form. There are primary materials such as
scrapbooks and handwritten stage scripts that document the careers of particular
performers, often couples or family members. The collection focuses on vaudeville
but encompasses other forms and eras of American entertainment as well, such as film
and recorded music. Specific descriptions of scope and content are provided for each
series, along with biographical notes for the individual performers' collections.
Many of the items in this collection are extremely fragile and therefore not
available for handling. For the scrapbooks in particular, reference photocopies have
been provided for viewing. Patrons must use motion picture reels under the direct
supervision of the Manuscripts Librarian. Preservation copies of this material are
not currently available. Depending upon equipment availability and item condition,
users may not be able to view this material.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner
of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify
and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its
officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person
asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
This series includes photocopies and printouts from various sources, as well
as loose original articles and other texts.
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"Black women recording pioneers," by Rainer Lotz. IAJRC Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 32-41, May
2007
1
2
Boston Opera House (Keith Memorial Theatre) - articles from the
Boston Sunday Globe,
(photocopies), 2004 June 20, 2004 June 27, 2004
Scope and Contents
"Virtually Vaudeville," June 20,
2004
"Another opening, another show," June 27, 2004
1
3
Boston Theatre District (map - former streets, demolished
historic buildings, former theatres, etc.),
1
4
"Cabaret comeback," by Elizabeth Kendall. Civilization, , pp. 34-36, Feb.-Mar. 1999
1
5
Comedy shorts - typed list,
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6
Cosmopolitan articles, 1897?-1905
Scope and Contents
This folder includes:
"Actress aided by camera," by Daniel Frohman
"Where vaudeville holds the boards," by Charles R. Sherlock; "The
postal-card craze," by Julian Ralph
"The future of vaudeville in America," by Israel Zangwill
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7
Chinese performance art,
Scope and Contents
This folder includes:
"Chinese Vaudeville: Xiangsheng and the Performer Hou Baolin" by
Shu-ying Tsau, , for "Workshop on Contemporary Chinese Literature
and the Performing Arts", Harvard, June 1979, May-June 1979
Report by Frank Cullen on researching Chinese performance art in
English language holdings at Harvard Yenching Library, June 6,
1996
1
8
Down Memory Lane, by Guy Magley, n.d. - booklet with
names of vaudeville acts listed by city and theatre, 1914-15, 1926,
1937,
1
9
"The evolution of American vaudeville," by John J. Murdock (source not
identified),
1
10
Keith/Albee Collection,
Scope and Contents
This folder includes:
Keith/Albee Collection Inventory, University of Iowa
Libraries
"The Keith/Albee Collection: The vaudeville industry, 1894-1935"
by M. Alison Kibler, Books at Iowa 56, Apr. 1992
1
11
"In Vaudeville" by Hartley
Davis, Everybody's
Magazine , Aug. 19, 2005
1
12
"Jugglers, past and present" by M.S. Mahendra, Linking
Ring , Dec.
1944
1
13
"Lest We Forget": Curtain falls on notable theatrical personages
in 1949 (13th ed.); 1950 (14th ed.); 1951 (15th ed.). From the records
compiled by Paul E. Glase, Fabian's Embassy Theatre, Reading,
Pa.,
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14
Correspondence between Frank
Cullen and LC reference librarian Madeline F. Matz, 1993-1995,
and printout search results, for LC holdings of early silent films
related to vaudeville, Vitaphone short films, and films with all-black
casts., 1993-1995
1
15
[List of theaters and contact information], ca. 2000
1
16
"Memphis Vaudeville Theater Orchestras" by Roy C. Brewer, from diss. Professional Musicians in Memphis, Tennessee
(1900-1950) ,
1
17
The Mississippi Rag articles, 2004
Scope and Contents
This folder includes:
"The TJEN corner," by Dave Robinson, founder, Traditional Jazz
Educators Network, , p. 34, Oct. 2004, Oct. 2004
1
18
"New York Theatres 1882 to 1939, Now Demolished" - typed
list,
1
19
"The Origin, Development, and Significance of Dramatic
Entertainment in American Vaudeville, 1893-1925," by Mari Lyn Henry (thesis, Catholic
University of America, 1968),
1
20
"Notes on the Principal Spanish Dances," by Vicente Escudero ,
1
21
Orpheum Circuit,
Scope and Contents
This folder includes:
Orpheum Circuit of Theatres, - booklet, published upon the
occasion of the dedication of the New Orpheum Theatre, San
Francisco, 1909
"The Orpheum Road Show," - photograph of flyer, 1908
"Origin of Orpheum Circuit," by Epes W. Sargent, July 24,
1934
1
22
Orpheum Theatres (San Francisco, Calif.) - correspondence,
papers, photocopies,
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"The Palace" by Donald
Wayne ( Holiday, , pp.
63-66+)- photocopy, lacks first page; accompanied by typed text and
summary, March 1951
2
2
"Panning the 'pan' time: being a compilation of information
appertaining to the Pantages Circuit," "cooked up" by Herbert Lloyd, "chef de claque",
- booklet, 1917
2
3
"Paramount turns 75: Oldest U.S. movie studio proves to be
survivor," by Joseph
Gelmis; Cape Cod Times, , p.
24, Jul 10, 1987
2
4
Performance arts bibliography, (source not
identified), 1995
2
5
Play Production, by Henning Nelms, -
photocopy, 1950
2
6
Poster catalogs,
Scope and Contents
This folder includes:
Christie's - Hollywood Posters, Christie's East, Tuesday, Dec. 11,
1990
Sports Movie Posters, vol. 4 of The Illustrated History of Movies
Through Posters, comp. Richard Allen and Bruce Hershenson,
1996
2
7
"Primary Sources in Vaudeville History: A Survey," by Michael Leininger
, 1982
2
8
"Telemedia Soundies" and Telemedia catalog,
2
9
Theatre articles, various photocopies,
Scope and Contents
This folder includes:
"Historic Uptown may get an encore at last," Chicago Sun Times,
Dec. 1, 2006
"A palace of a playhouse: Rockford's Coronado Theatre," Historic
Illinois, Aug. 2001
"The rise and fall of the Old Howard," Boston Sunday Globe, May
20, 2001
"Vaudeville once again takes center stage at Netcong theater,"
Star-Ledger, Sep. 12, 2003
2
10
"They Stopped the Show" - album cover and liner
notes, 1969
2
11
"To Artists" by E.F. Albee,
2
12
T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Bookers Association; black vaudeville) -
photocopies,
This series consists of brochures, correspondence, and other promotional
materials from organizations. There is also a series of periodicals, Lambs
Script, provided by their issuing organization. The series is arranged
alphabetically by organization.
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American Southwestern Railway Association (Los Angeles, Calif.) -
correspondence, "The Little Nugget" promotional card, 2006
3
2
American Vaudeville Theatre (Brooklyn, NY) -
brochure, after 1996
3
3
Audio Film Center - brochure pages,
3
4
British Music Hall Society, Players Theatre (London, England) -
correspondence and information, 1998-2000
3
5
Certificates of Authenticity,
3
6
Correspondence - Frank Cullen / Vaudeville Museum,
3
7
Correspondence - Frank Cullen / Turner Entertainment,
"Cross-Dressing in the Theatre" - lecture/exhibition announcement,
2003
"Dime Museums and Nickel Theatres" - exhibition brochure,
2006
3
9
The Institute of the American Musical (Los Angeles, Calif.) -
press kit, ca. 1998
3
10
The International Al Jolson Society ( Norman Conrad) - order form,
correspondence,
3
11
KiMo Theatre (Albuquerque, N.M.) - folder, flyers; incl. Spencer
Theater for the Performing Arts (Ruidoso/Alto, N.M.) flyer,
3
12
The Lambs (New York, N.Y.) - correspondence, "Installation
Gambol" dinner program, ; Lambs Script
, 1998 Jan/Feb 1997 - spring
1998
3
13
Moschen, Michael ( David Belenzon
Management, Inc. ) - press kit, 2002
3
14
Museum of the Moving Image, British Film Institute (London,
England) - correspondence and flyers, 1997
3
15
National Comedy Hall of Fame (St. Petersburg, Fla.) - press
kit, ca. 1997
3
16
New York Friar's Club (New York, N.Y.) - booklet,
undated,
3
17
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.)
- exhibition brochure, "Vaudeville Nation,", 2005-2006
3
18
Palm Springs Follies (Palm Springs, Calif.) - press
kit, 2001
3
19
Periwinkle Entertainment Productions (Anaheim, Calif.) - press
kit, 2005
3
20
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.), Donehy
Memorial Library - exhibition booklet, "Setting the State: The Rise of
American Popular Theater", 2005
This series comprises photographs, articles, stamps, postcards, and
photocopies that were organized by the American Vaudeville Museum based on
themes rather than performers. The holdings in this series are generally
minimal, with only one or a few items in each category.
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Acrobats, Balancing Acts, Bicycle Acts,
Scope and Contents
Harry Decoe
Rice and Prevost
Kay Farrelli, Holiday on
Ice, 1950s-1960s?
Mel Hall, and The Fabulous
Cycling Whiz Kids (Mel Hall's Kids)
Bobby May
The Percelly's , Holiday on Ice, 1955
Rice & Prevost
Eddy Rose and Marion
Harry Sykes
Tubby & Spats
Jimmy Valdare &
Duffy
"Where Vaudeville Holds the Boards," by Charles R. Sherlock;
Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1902
4
2
Acts Who Used Drawings,
4
3
African Americans,
Scope and Contents
Sandy Burns
Dixie Strutters
Radcliffe and Rogers
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4
Burlesque,
Scope and Contents
Four Sisters Ruby
Helen Leach,
Wallin Trio
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5
(Subjects of drawings include Dardanelle, Anita O'Day, Walter
Lippman, Bessie Smith, and Maxine Sullivan. Two are part of a card
series, Women Singers of Cafe Society.), May 19, 1968 1927 1996
Scope and Contents
Caricatures and drawings by Frank Cullen
"The Algonquin Wits", caricature by Hirschfield, The New York Times Book Review,
May 19, 1968
Caricatures of celebrities, 1927 - Cocoanut
Grove, by Ralph Barton,
and 1996 - Mortons, by David Cowles, Vanity Fair
This series consists of clippings, photographs, announcements, sheet music,
publications, and ephemera. The subjects are individual and group
performers; they include singers, dancers, female impersonators, acrobats,
jugglers, actors, clowns and comedians. It is organized alphabetically - by
performer's surname, by stage name, or by group name - with oversize
material grouped at the end.
Separated Materials
Two more substantial collections originally received among this material -
Frank J. Sidney and Doreen Rae - have been organized separately.
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Abbott and Costello ( Bud Abbott and Lou Costello),
Barnet, Robert A. (producer), and
Eltinge, Julian (female
impersonators),
5
23
Barrymore, Ethel ,
5
24
El Barto ( James
Barton, 1858-1935),
5
25
Barton, James, 1890-1962,
5
26
Barty, Billy ,
5
27
Bates, Peg Leg ( Clayton Bates),
5
28
Bayes, Nora ,
5
29
Bennett, Richard ,
5
30
Benny, Jack ,
5
31
Bentley, Gladys ,
5
32
Bergen, Edgar ,
5
33
Bergman, Ingrid, and Matthau,
Walter ,
5
34
Berle, Milton ,
5
35
Bernie, Ben ,
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36
Bernhardt, Sarah ,
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Bigger, Laura ,
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2
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus ,
6
3
Bizzarro Brothers ,
6
4
Blake, Eubie ,
6
5
Blake, Robert ,
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6
Blesh, Rudi ,
6
7
Block & Sully ( Jesse Block and Eva Sully
(Block)),
6
8
Blondell, Joan ,
6
9
Bloolips (P.G. "Bette" Bourne, Danny "Diva Dan" Barratt,
Vincent "Lavinia Coop" Fox, Paul "Precious Pearl" Shaw,
etc.) ,
6
10
Bolger, Ray ,
6
11
Bigger, Laura ,
6
12
Bondi, Beulah ,
6
13
Bowers, Cookie ,
6
14
Brachetti, Arturo ,
6
15
El Brendel ,
6
16
Brice, Fanny ,
6
17
Bronson, Charles ,
6
18
Brown, Buster ,
6
19
Brown, George ,
6
20
Brown, Joe E. ,
6
21
Bubbles, John ,
6
22
Buckley, Dick (Lord Buckley),
6
23
Bufalino, Brenda ,
6
24
Burns & Allen ( George Burns and Gracie Allen),
6
25
Butterbeans and Susie ( Jodie Edwards and Susie
Hawthorne-Edwards),
6
26
Buttons, Red ,
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Caesar, Sid ,
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Cagney, James ,
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3
Calloway, Cab ,
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4
Calvert, John ,
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5
Canova, Judy ,
7
6
Cantor, Eddie ,
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7
Carl Freed's Harmonic Harlequins ,
7
8
Carle, Richard ,
7
9
Carlin, George ,
7
10
Carmichael, Hoagy ,
7
11
Carpenter, Thelma ,
7
12
Carus, Emma ,
7
13
Cavanaugh, Hobart ,
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14
Chang, Anna ,
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15
(see also: Reeves, Alf and Billy),
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16
Chaplin, Sydney ,
7
17
Chase, Chaz (Chaz Chase) ,
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18
Chase, Charley ,
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19
Chevalier, Albert ,
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20
Chevalier, Maurice ,
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21
Cirque de Sade ( Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson),
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22
Claire, Ina ,
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23
Clark, Bobby ,
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24
Clayton, Ethel ,
7
25
Clinger, Will ,
7
26
Coca, Imogene ,
7
27
Cohen, Myron ,
7
28
Cole & Johnson ( Bob Cole and J.
Rosamond Johnson; and James Weldon
Johnson),
7
29
Collier, William(William, Sr. and William,
Jr.),
7
30
Collins, José (Josephine),
7
31
Connor, Chris ,
7
32
Cook, Joe ,
7
33
Cooper, Gary ,
7
34
Cornell, Katherine ,
7
35
Covan, Willie ,
7
36
Crabtree, Lotta (Lotta La Petite; Little
Lotta),
7
37
Curran, Sean ( Sean Curran
Company ),
7
38
Dailey, Peter F. ,
7
39
D'Arville, Camille ,
7
40
Davenport Sisters ,
7
41
Davis, Joan, and Haley, Jack
,
7
42
Davis, Sammy, Jr. ,
7
43
DeMarco, Tony, and DeMarco,
Sally ,
7
44
Deslys, Gaby ,
7
45
Douglas, Melvyn ,
7
46
Doyle, Patsy (Patrick) ,
7
47
Draper, Paul ,
7
48
Draper, Ruth ,
7
49
Dressler, Marie ,
7
50
Duffy, Patrick ( Marlo &
Duffy ),
7
51
Dumont, Margaret ,
7
52
Duncan Sisters ( Rosetta Duncan and Vivian
Duncan),
7
53
Duo Arnedis ( Arne Ellingstad and Marina Ellingstad),
7
54
Durante, Jimmy ,
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Eddie & Lorraine (The Aristocrats of Tiny
Wheels),
8
2
Edwards, Cliff ,
8
3
Edwards, Gus ,
8
4
Elen, Gus ,
8
5
Ellington, Duke ,
8
6
Elliott, G.H. (George Henry) ,
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7
Elton, Lily ,
8
8
Emery, Winifred ,
8
9
Fagan, Noodles, and Fagan,
Paxton ,
8
10
Farrar, Geraldine ,
8
11
Farrell, Eileen ,
8
12
Fernandel ( Fernand-Joseph-Désiré
Contandin),
8
13
Fetchit, Stepin ( Lincoln Perry),
8
14
Fields, Gracie ,
8
15
Fink's Mules ,
8
16
Fitzgerald, Ella ,
8
17
Flagstad, Kirsten ,
8
18
Flavin, Margaret ( Margaret Flavin
Sheehan), and Watson, Billy
,
8
19
Fletcher, Dusty (Clinton Fletcher, 1897-1954)
,
8
20
Flippen, Jay C. ,
8
21
Foley, Joe, and Kenney, Joseph
,
8
22
Ford Sisters ( Dora
Ford and Mabel
Ford),
8
23
Forde, Florrie ,
8
24
Four Step Brothers ( Maceo Anderson, Al Williams, Red Walker, Sherman
Robertson),
8
25
Fox, Della ,
8
26
Foy, Eddie ,
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27
Friganza, Trixie ,
8
28
Frost & Morrison ,
8
29
Gartelle Brothers ,
8
30
Genée, Adelina ,
8
31
Gilbert, William Schwenck ,
8
32
Gilder, George ,
8
33
Gillette, William ,
8
34
Gilmore, Charles "Mike" ,
8
35
Gilson, Lottie ,
8
36
Glose, Augusta ,
8
37
Glover, Savion ,
8
38
Goodner, Lillian ,
8
39
Goodwin, Nat ,
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40
Gordon, Bert ,
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41
Gordon, Ruth ,
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Betty Grable ,
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Le Grand David (magic show),
9
3
The Great Raymond ( Maurice Saunders),
9
4
Great Small Works ,
9
5
Green, Mitzi ,
9
6
Greenwood, Charlotte ,
9
7
Grey & Byron ( Mildred "Dolly" Grey and
Bert Byron),
9
8
Grey, Lizzie/Lissie (Lizzie/Lissie Gray; Elizabeth
(Ganssler) Wilson),
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9
Grock ( Charles Adrien Wettach),
9
10
Guilbert, Yvette ,
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11
Hall, Adelaide ,
9
12
Harmonica Rascals ( Borrah Minevitch),
9
13
Harper, Leonard ,
9
14
Harrigan & Hart ( Edward "Ned" Harrigan and
Tony Hart),
9
15
Harris, Julie (correspondence),
9
16
Harry, Deborah, and McGill,
Everett ,
9
17
Havoc, June ,
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18
Henlere, Herschel ,
9
19
Hindu Belles ,
9
20
Hines, Gregory ,
9
21
Hitchcock, Raymond ,
9
22
Hoen, Max, Cora, and Ed ,
9
23
Hoffmann, Gertrude ,
9
24
Holiday, Billie, and Armstrong, Louis,
9
25
Hope, Bob ,
9
26
Houdini, Harry ,
9
27
Howard, Willie, and Howard,
Eugene ,
9
28
Humes, Helen ,
9
29
Hunter, Alberta ,
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30
Huntington, Agnes ,
9
31
Hutton, Betty ,
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32
International Sweethearts of Rhythm ,
9
33
Irving, Henry, Sir ,
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Irwin, Bill ,
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35
Ito, Michio ,
9
36
Janis, Elsie ,
9
37
Jefferson, Joe ,
9
38
Johns, Brooke ,
9
39
Johnstone, Sibyl ,
9
40
Jolson, Al ,
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41
Joy, Leatrice ,
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Kaye, Danny ,
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2
Karamazov Brothers (aka: The Flying Karamazov
Brothers) ,
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3
(see also: The Keaton Chronicle,
in Periodicals),
10
4
Kelly & Galvin ( Phil Kelly and Joe
Galvin - The Actor & The Italian),
10
5
Kelly, J.W. (Rolling Mill Man),
10
6
Kelly, Patsy ,
10
7
King, Hetty ,
10
8
Kitt, Eartha ,
10
9
Lackaye, Wilton ,
10
10
Lahr, Bert ,
10
11
Lamarr, Hedy ,
10
12
(see also: Wild About Harry, in
Periodicals),
10
13
Las-Cellas, Sarah ,
10
14
Laurel & Hardy ( Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy),
10
15
Lavelle - Ross ,
10
16
Lea, Barbara ,
10
17
Leguizamo, John (Mambo King of Comedy),
10
18
Leno, Dan ,
10
19
Lenya, Lotte ,
10
20
Leonar, Eddie (Our Minstrel),
10
21
LeRoy, Hal (CIGAR),
10
22
Lewis, Furry ( Walter E. Lewis),
10
23
Lillie, Beatrice ,
10
24
Limón, José ,
10
25
Lindfors, Viveca ,
10
26
Lippman, Walter ,
10
27
Little Tich ,
10
28
Lloyd, Alice ,
10
29
Lloyd, Harold ,
10
30
Loftus, Cecilia, and Loftus,
Marie (mother),
10
31
Low, Rowland ,
10
32
Loy, Myrna ,
10
33
Lugosi, Bela ,
10
34
Luke, Keye, and Robert Ito (with Chet Dowling),
10
35
Lyons, Carnell ,
10
36
Mack, Frank Guy ,
10
37
Mack, Ollie ,
10
38
Mackenzie, Mary ,
10
39
Mahoney, Will, and Maria Elena
(daughter; painter),
10
40
Makishi, Stacy ,
10
41
Mankin, Harley ,
10
42
Mantell, Anna ,
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Marx Brothers ( Harpo Marx, Groucho
Marx, and Chico
Marx),
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2
McIntyre, Heath (James McIntrye and Thomas K.
Heath) ,
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3
McNulty, Jennie ,
11
4
McRae, Carmen ,
11
5
Menes, Michael ,
11
6
Midler, Bette ,
11
7
Mignon ( Sadie
Rosenberg),
11
8
Miller, Ann ,
11
9
Mills, Florence ,
11
10
Miss Broadway ,
11
11
Mr. Nostalgia ( Bob
Cusack),
11
12
Mr. Slim's Goodtime Ragtime Vaudeville Revival (
R.W. Bacon and L.J. Newton),
11
13
Mitchell and Durant ( Frank Mitchell and Jack Durant),
11
14
Monty Python ( John
Cleese),
11
15
Moore, Marianne ,
11
16
Moore, Tom ,
11
17
Moran and Mack ( George Moran and Charlie Mack - "The Two Black Crows"),
11
18
Moran, Polly ,
11
19
Moreland, Mantan ,
11
20
Morlacchi, Giuseppina, and Texas
Jack ,
11
21
Morse, Lee ,
11
22
Morton, Jelly Roll ,
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23
Murray, Ken ,
11
24
Napier, Valantyne, and Napier,
Hector (father),
11
25
Neagle, Anna ,
11
26
Negri, Pola ,
11
27
Neilson, Julia ,
11
28
Newhart, Bob ,
11
29
Newton-John, Olivia ,
11
30
Nicholas Brothers ( Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas),
11
31
(Note: there is a single photo of this duo; contains primarily
photos of other entertainers, most autographed to Venza Noble, also
spelled Noblet, Noblett or Noblette.),
11
32
Norman, Mary, and Norman, Ron
,
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Oakley, Annie ,
12
2
O'Brien, Pat ,
12
3
O'Day, Anita ,
12
4
Oliver Band ,
12
5
Oliver, Richard ,
12
6
Olivier, Laurence ,
12
7
Palace Music Hall Girls ,
12
8
Patton, Frank ,
12
9
Pavlova, Anna, and Mordkin,
Mikhail ,
12
10
The Payton Trio (Lew, Hattie, and
Clifton),
12
11
Peters Sisters ,
12
12
Piaf, Edith ,
12
13
Pickford, Mary ,
12
14
Pitts, ZaSu ,
12
15
Pollard, Daphne, and Stanley,
Katherine ,
12
16
Potts, Ernie, & Company,
12
17
Powell, Eleanor ,
12
18
Raft, George ,
12
19
Rainey, Ma ,
12
20
Rand, Sally ,
12
21
Ravel Troupe (François, Gabriel, Jean, and
others),
12
22
Raye, Martha ,
12
23
Reed Sisters ( Melva
Reed and Bonnie
Reed),
12
24
Reeves, Al ,
12
25
Reeves, Alf, and Reeves, Billy
,
12
26
Renault, Francis ,
12
27
Rice, Fanny ,
12
28
Richman, Harry ,
12
29
Ring, Blanche ,
12
30
Rio Brothers (Ed and Joe),
12
31
Ritz Brothers (Stage names: Al, Jimmy and Harry;
given names Abraham, Samuel and Herschel Joachim),
12
32
Roach, Hal ,
12
33
Robert, Joe ,
12
34
Robeson, Paul ,
12
35
Robey, George ,
12
36
Robins, Adolph ,
12
37
Robinson, Bill ,
12
38
Robinson, John - John Robinson's
Circus ,
12
39
(see also: Weber and Fields),
12
40
Rogers, Will ,
12
41
Rose Marie (Guy),
12
42
Ross and Fenton ( Charles J. Ross and Mabel Fenton),
12
43
Ross, Hope ,
12
44
Roventini, Johnny (Philip Morris
bellboy),
12
45
Rowland, Adele ,
12
46
Royal Rockets (John Carson, Dorothy Carson Smidt
and Paul Smidt),
12
47
Royal Tokyo Japanese Troupe (circa
1910),
12
48
Rubin, Benny ,
12
49
Rubinstein, Arthur ,
12
50
Russell, Jane ,
12
51
Russell, Lillian ,
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Samuels, Rae ,
13
2
Santoro, Margaret ,
13
3
Savo, Jimmy ,
13
4
Scheerer, Robert ,
13
5
Seeley, Blossom, and Fields,
Benny ,
13
6
Semon, Larry ,
13
7
Short, Bobby ,
13
8
Sidney, Sylvia ,
13
9
Skinner, Otis ,
13
10
Slate Brothers ,
13
11
Smith, Bessie ,
13
12
Smith, Joe, and Bale, Chas
,
13
13
Smith, Kate ,
13
14
Smith, Maggie ,
13
15
Spacek, Sissy, and Roberts,
Eric ,
13
16
Sparks, Ned ,
13
17
(see also: Photographs, Box 22),
13
18
Stathos, Margaret Moreland ,
13
19
Storch, Larry ,
13
20
Stritch, Elaine ,
13
21
Suratt, Valeska ,
13
22
Swanson, Gloria ,
13
23
Tabor, Baby Doe ( Elizabeth McCourt
Tabor) ,
13
24
Talma, LeRoy, and Bosco, Mirth
,
13
25
Tan, Margaret Leng ,
13
26
Tanguay, Eva ,
13
27
Tempest, Marie ,
13
28
Templeton, Fay ,
13
29
Thompson, Lydia ,
13
30
Three Musical Moods ,
13
31
The Three Stooges ( Larry Fine, Moe
Howard, and Joe DiRita),
13
32
Three X Sisters (Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce;
Pearl Santos, Vi Hamilton, and Jessie Fordyce),
13
33
Tilly, Vesta ,
13
34
Tip, Tap & Toe (Ray Winfield (leader) with
Samuel Green, Ted Fraser and Freddie James),
13
35
Tormé, Mel ,
13
36
Tracy, Arthur ,
13
37
Tucker, Sophie ,
13
38
Travato ,
13
39
Tully, May ,
13
40
Turpin, Ben ,
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Unidentified (various),
14
2
Urline, Capitola ,
14
3
Valaida, Snow ,
14
4
Van, Billy B. ,
14
5
Vance, Clarice ,
14
6
Vardon & Perry ( Frank A. Vardon and Harry H. Perry),
14
7
Vaughan, Sarah ,
14
8
The Vents (Ruth and Ray),
14
9
Vesta Victoria ( Victoria
Lawrence),
14
10
Vidor, King ,
14
11
Walking Brothers ,
14
12
Warfield, David ,
14
13
Washington, Dinah ,
14
14
Waters, Doris and Waters,
Elsie ,
14
15
Watson, Billy ,
14
16
Watson Sisters (Fanny and Kitty) ,
14
17
Wayburn, Ned ,
14
18
Weber, Joe, and Fields, Lew
,
14
19
Weeks, Larry ,
14
20
Weill, Kurt ,
14
21
Welles, Orson ( Citizen
Kane),
14
22
Westfield, Catherine ,
14
23
Wethersby, Emma ,
14
24
Wheeler & Woolsey ( Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey - Mummy's Boys,
1936),
14
25
Whiting, Margaret ,
14
26
Wiere Brothers ( Harry Wiere, Herbert
Wiere, and Sylvester
Wiere),
14
27
Williams, Herb ,
14
28
Williams, Joe ,
14
29
Williams, Marion ,
14
30
Wilson, Wesley ,
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Oversize. Dardanelle ( Dardanelle
Hadley),
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Oversize. Fanchon & Marco ( Fanny Wolff and Mike
Wolff),
This series consists of newspaper clippings of obituaries, many of them
originally glued onto scrapbook pages; they are generally provided as
photocopies. They are organized alphabetically by surname or stage name. The
subjects include a broad range of singers, dancers, actors, comedians, and
other personalities, including some outside the realm of entertainment.
Obituaries are also located in the Performers files, when there is other
material about that performer.
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Obituaries A - C,
Scope and Contents
Abbott, George
Alinsky, Saul
Allen, Dayton
Anderson, Maceo
Atkins, Cholly (Charles)
Barnes, Binnie ( Gittel Enoyce)
Bates, Clayton (Peg Leg Bates)
Bird, Billie ( Billie Bird
Sellen)
Bogue, Merwyn
Borge, Victor
Bricktop ( Ada
Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith)
Brown, Johnny Mack
Bruce, Lenny
Cage, John
Carney, Art
Churchill, Marguerite
Clyde, Andy
Coogan, Jackie
Cook, Elisha
Corio, Ann
Cornell, Katharine
Cotten, Elizabeth
Crawford, Joan
Cronyn, Hume
Cukor, George
Cummings, Constance
Cunningham, Merce
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Obituaries D - F,
Scope and Contents
Dale, Charles (of Joe Smith and Charlie Dale)
Daniels, Bebe (Phyllis)
Darwell, Jane
Dawn, Dolly ( Theresa Maria
Stabile)
Delmar, Kenny
Devine, Andy
Dietz, Howard
Dooley, Ray ( Rachel Rice
Dooley)
Douglas, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, William O.
Dove, Billie ( Lillian
Bohny)
Downey, Morton
Dresser, Louise
Farina, Richard
Farlow, Talmage "Tal" Holt
Farrell, Glenda
Fealy, Maude
Feldman, Marty
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Obituaries G - I,
Scope and Contents
Gardiner, Reginald
George, Dan, Chief ( Geswanouth
Slahoot)
Gingold, Hermione
Gish, Dorothy
Goman, Charles Raymond
Goodman, Ace ( Goodman Aiskowitz)
Gorcey, Leo
Gosden, Freeman (of "Amos 'n' Andy")
Griffith, Corinne
Guinness, Alec
Hairston, Jester
Haley, Jack
Halop, Billy
Hammond, John
Haney, Carol
Harding, Ann
Hawthorne, Nigel
Hayes, Roland
Hickson, Joan
Hildegarde ( Hildegarde Loretta
Sell)
Homolka, Oscar
Hopkins, Miriam
Hughes, Russell Meriweather
Hulbert, Jack
Huntz, Hall
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Obituaries J - L,
Scope and Contents
Jackson, Eddie (of Clayton, Jackson and
Durante)
Jaffe, Sam
Jenkins, Allen
Johnson, Nunnally
Kane, Helen
Keeler, Ruby
Keller, Greta
Kelly, Emmett
Kelly, Fred
Koestler, Arthur
Laye, Evelyn
Le Gallienne, Eva
Lindquist, John
Loudon, Dorothy
Lukas, Paul
Lunt, Alfred
Lupescu, Magda (Elena)
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Obituaries M - P,
Scope and Contents
Maracci, Carmelita
Mason, James
Matthau, Walter
Mayo, Virginia
McHugh, Frank
Mercer, Johnny
Merman, Ethel
Miscellaneous from Variety (
Buddy Rogers,
Ellen Corby,
Señor Wences, L.C. "Speedy"
Huggins)
Mitchell, Jimmy "Sir Slyde" ( James Titus
Godbolt)
Monk, Thelonious
Moore, Dudley
Morley, Robert
Morse, Ella Mae
Murray, Mae
Nelson, Portia
Nesbitt, Cathleen
Nielsen, Asta
Oakie, Jack
Parker, Dorothy
Pollard, Harry (Keystone Kop)
Powell, William
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6
Obituaries Q - S,
Scope and Contents
Quayle, Anthony, Sir
Rambova, Natacha (second wife of Rudolph Valentino)
This subseries consists primarily of postcards depicting entertainment
theatre buildings, mostly in the United States. Other materials include
admission tickets, announcements, photographs, and commemorative
booklets. There are a few postcards of non-theatre subjects. The series
is organized alphabetically by state, with a miscellaneous grouping at
the end.
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California,
Scope and Contents
Fox Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.) - photograph
Movieland Wax Museum (Buena Park, Calif.)
Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Illinois,
Scope and Contents
Gaiety Theatre (Galesburg, Ill.)
Majestic Theatre (Chicago, Ill.)
Maxwell Street Market (Chicago, Ill.)
Orpheum Theatre (Chicago, Ill.)
Rialto Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) - miniature program
Vaudeville Theatre, formerly the Iroquois Theatre (Chicago,
Ill.)
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3
Maryland,
Scope and Contents
Maryland Theatre and Hotel Kernan (Baltimore, Md.) - 2
views
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4
Massachusetts, 1924 ca. 1894 1905 ca.
1900
Scope and Contents
Adam's House and Keith's Theatre (Boston, Mass.)
1924 - 2 versions
B.F. Keith's New Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - booklet, 44 p.,
ca. 1894
Boston Music Hall (Boston, Mass.) - tickets from "All Star
Vaudeville", 1905
Keith's Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - King's Booklets, a souvenir
of Keith's Boston Theatre, ca.
1900
Keith's Vaudeville (Brockton, Mass.)
RKO Keith's (Boston, Mass.)
Tremont Theatre (Boston, Mass.) - 2 versions
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5
Michigan, 2004
Scope and Contents
Fisher Theatre (Detroit, Mich.) (booklet, 31 p.; Graven &
Mayger, Architects; Theatre Historical Society of America
annual, no. 31) 2004
Orpheum Theatre (Detroit, Mich.)
Temple Theatre (Detroit, Mich.) - 2 copies
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6
Missouri,
Scope and Contents
New Orpheum Theatre (Kansas City, Mo.)
Orpheum Theatre (Kansas City, Mo.)
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7
Nebraska,
Scope and Contents
Burwood Theatre (Omaha, Neb.)
Orpheum Theatre (Lincoln, Neb.)
Orpheum Theatre (Omaha, Neb.)
World Theatre (Omaha, Neb.)
17
8
New Jersey,
Scope and Contents
Boardwalk (Atlantic City, N.J.)
Lyric Theatre (Summit, N.J.)
Waldmann's Theatre (Newark, N.J.)
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9
New York, 1999 Nov. 1882
Scope and Contents
B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.) - postcard of
playbill, 1915
B.F. Keith's Vaudeville Theatre (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Bowery (New York, N.Y.)
Club House of the National Vaudeville Artists (New York,
N.Y.)
Harry Hills Variety Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Hippodrome (New York, N.Y.) - 2 postcard views and
photograph
The Lambs (New York, N.Y.) - 73rd consecutive weekly function
- Lambs & M. Corps - Oct. 13, 1943; page from
guestbook
Memorial Hall (Gloversville, N.Y.)
On Stage: A Photographic Reminiscence of
New York Theater, 1895-1915; a book of postcards.
Museum of the City of New York, The Byron Collection. (San
Francisco: Pomegranate Press, 1999)
Places of Amusement - New York City, Nov. 1882 - miniature
brochure
RKO Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Shea's Theatre (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Shubert Theatre (Utica, N.Y.)
Temple Theater (Rochester, N.Y.)
Union Square (New York, N.Y.)
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10
Ohio,
Scope and Contents
B.F. Keith Vaudeville (Cleveland, Ohio)
Keith Vaudeville (Columbus, Ohio)
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11
Pennsylvania,
Scope and Contents
Air Dome (Wilkinsburg, Penn.)
Keith's Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) - postcard, and page from
Philadelphia Guide
This subseries is a collection of programs and playbills from theatres
across the United States, including B.F. Keith's, Orpheum, and RKO
theatres. There are also some theatre publicity materials and arts
periodicals, and flyers from music publishing houses and from suppliers
of playbills and posters for stage productions. They are organized
alphabetically by theatre name.
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The Alex Theatre (Glendale, Calif.), 2002
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2
American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, Mass.), 2004
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3
B.F. Keith's (Columbus, Ohio), 1910-1911
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4
B.F. Keith's New Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1911-1912 1922
18
5
B.F. Keith's New Theatre (Providence, R.I.), 1899
18
6
B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.), 1925
This subseries comprises souvenir programs from revues, Broadway shows,
musicals, and plays. They are organized alphabetically by production
title, or in some cases by another cover title when there is no evident
production title. The earliest is an 1899 program from Koster &
Bial's Music Hall in New York. There are two Hippodrome souvenir
programs (1918 and 1924) and a Ziegfeld Follies program (1942-43).
Productions include "Showtime" with George Jessel (1943) and "Tobacco
Road" with James Barton (1936).
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"As the Girls Go" ( Bobby
Clark, Irene
Rich), 1948
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2
B.F. Keith's New York Hippodrome, "Novelties from All Parts
of the Earth" - Bill of International Artists, Aug. 1924 Oct. 1924 Feb. 1925
20
3
"Big Time" ( Ed
Wynn), 1921
20
4
"The Biggest Show of '51" ( Duke Ellington, Nat "King" Cole, Sarah Vaughan,
etc.), 1951
20
5
"Bless You All" ( Jules
Munshin, Mary
McCarty, Pearl
Bailey, etc.), 1950
The items in this subseries were donated to the American Vaudeville
Museum collection by G. M. Sanborn of the Massachusetts State
Transportation Library.
Scope and Content
These programs are organized alphabetically by theatre, with featured
programs indicated. Multiple programs for a given theatre are listed
chronologically. They include the "Ziegfeld Follies" (1922) at the New
Amsterdam Theatre and "Candida" (1925) at the Plymouth Theatre. A few
are from New York rather than Boston theatres; those are indicated as
such. Some theatre-related publications other than programs are also
located here.
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Boston Opera House, 1925
Scope and Contents
"The Miracle" 1925
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2
The Capitol, A Publix Theatre, 1929
Scope and Contents
"The Wolf of Wall Street" 1929
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3
Colonial Theatre, 1925 1929
Scope and Contents
"Stepping Stones" 1925
"Three Cheers" 1929
21
4
Community Service of Boston Inc., undated (after
1920)
Scope and Contents
"Community Songs" (not a theatre program) undated
(after 1920)
21
5
Copley Theatre, 1928 1928 1929 1929
Scope and Contents
"The Bellamy Trial" 1928
"The Wrecker" 1928
"The Ringer" 1929
"The Whispering Gallery" 1929
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6
Cort Theatre (New York), 1921
Scope and Contents
"Only 38" 1921
21
7
Dollhouse Theatre, 1999
Scope and Contents
"Medea" 1999
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8
Film Guild Cinema (New York), 1929 1929
Scope and Contents
"The House of Shadow Silence" 1929
"Waterloo" 1929
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9
George M. Cohan Theatre (New York), 1930
Scope and Contents
"Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson"
1930
21
10
Greenwich Village Theatre (New York), 1920
Scope and Contents
"The Beggar's Opera" 1920
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11
Hollis Street Theatre, 1926 1928 1928
Scope and Contents
"Peter Pan" (Civic Repertory Theatre, New York, tour)
1926
"Marco Millions" 1928
"Porgy" 1928
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12
Majestic Theatre, 1933 1929
Scope and Contents
"Cavalcade" 1933
"White Lilacs" 1929
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13
Metropolitan, 1928
Scope and Contents
"Three Sinners" 1928
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14
New Amsterdam Theatre, 1922
Scope and Contents
"Ziegfeld Follies" 1922
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15
New York Amusements (New York) week of, Apr. 8, 1929
Scope and Contents
"The Love Duel" - Ethel
Barrymore, at the Barrymore Theatre (on
cover)
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New Park Theatre, ca. 1927
Scope and Contents
"The Dark" ca. 1927
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17
Plymouth Theatre, 1925 1926 1928 1929 ca. 1952
Scope and Contents
"Candida" 1925
"Applesauce" 1926
"The Play's the Thing" 1928
"The Command to Love" 1929
"Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens" ca.
1952
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Publix Theatres, 1930
Scope and Contents
"The Vagabond King" (promotional booklet for motion picture)
1930
21
19
Repertory Theatre of Boston, 1926 1926
Scope and Contents
"Heartbreak House" 1926
"R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) 1926
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20
Shubert-Plymouth Theatre, ca. 1929
Scope and Contents
"The Command to Love" ca. 1929
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21
Shubert Theatre, ca. 1928 ca.
1921-26 1945 1952 1952
This series consists of miscellaneous photographs, mostly 11 x 14 inches;
some are offset reproductions rather than actual photographic prints. Many
more photographs can be found in the Performers files and the individual
collections.
There are two general categories. The first group consists primarily of
publicity portraits of entertainers. The photographs are listed here in
alphabetical order by subject's surname. The second group consists of movie
stills, mostly 11 x 14 inches. Many of them are from an unidentified 1940
movie, with image numbers SMC- .
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Photographs: Portraits, identified,
Scope and Contents
Jeanette Alabassi, by Strand (N.Y.)
Phil Baker in "Pleasure Bound", Majestic Theatre, by George
Maillard Kesslere (N.Y.)
Ray Bolger, by Vandamm Studio (N.Y.)
Ray Bolger [in "Sunny"] - 2 photos
Walter Clinton, by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Joe Frisco, by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Joe E. Lewis, by Bloom (Chicago)
Flourney Miller - formerly of Miller & Lyles, "Blackbirds of
1930", by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Mae Murray, by Bloom (Chicago)
Valerie Parks, by Bruno (Hollywood)
Julia Rooney, by Mitchell (N.Y.)
Rosita Royce, by Bruno (Hollywood)
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Scope and Contents
Ruth St. Denis as "Radha", 1906, by Marcus Blechman
Ruth St. Denis in "Black Nautch", 1927, by Marcus Blechman
[Ruth St. Denis in] "White Jade", 1927, by Marcus Blechman
Ruth St. Denis in "Tagore Poem", 1929, by Marcus Blechman
The Spirit of Ruth St. Denis, 1950, by Phil Baribault
Photo of Ruth St. Denis in foyer of the Museum of the City of New
York, 1961, by Marcus Blechman
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Photographs: Miscellaneous,
Scope and Contents
"Going to Town" [burlesque revue], by Canell (N.Y.)
[unidentified woman holding black gauze fabric]
[unidentified woman draped in swirling-pattern gauze
fabric]
[unidentified couple in straw and bowler hats, stage role], by
Cadia? (N.Y.)
[unidentified female portrait, bleached]
[Yiddish theater façade and street scene]
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Movie stills: "The Flame of New Orleans", 1941 (Marlene Dietrich
and Mischa Auer) - 2 photos,
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Movie stills: "Sunny" (Anna Neagle and John Carroll) - 5
photos,
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Movie stills: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (Gene Raymond, Robert
Montgomery, Carole Lombard) - 2 photos,
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Movie stills: Unidentified film - 18 photos,
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Movie stills: Miscellaneous,
Scope and Contents
Merle Oberon
Emily Smith, as Peas, in Shine On Harvest Moon. A Warner Bros.
First National Picture
[still from "The Maltese Falcon" - Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor,
Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet]
[still from silent? film - couple holding hands by window,
locomotive approaching]
This series comprises vintage and reproduced posters and display boards. In
addition, there is a cut-out toy figure, a group of photos matted together,
a portfolio cover, and a newspaper article, housed here for reasons of size.
Four oversize photographs from the Dixon-Freeman collection are also stored
here. Larger posters are housed separately in oversize storage.
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Untitled materials,
Scope and Contents
Materials in this folder include:
"Argentine Nights, starring The Ritz Brothers and The Andrews
Sisters", 1940 poster, Realart Pictures
"Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi in Son of
Frankenstein", poster (reproduction), 1939
"Bloolips in London's Finest Comedy, Teenage Trash", 1987
"Carl Laemmle presents Dracula, the vampire thriller", poster
(reproduction), 1931
Dixon-Freeman collection - photographs
Duncan Sisters, 2 photographs and newspaper image, 1920s-1950s,
matted together
"F.B.O. presents Fred Thompson and his remarkable horse Silver
King in 'Thundering Hoofs'", poster, Film Booking Offices (color
photocopy), 1924
"Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks", cut-out figure, 16 in., with Tums ad
and instructions on verso, 1950
"The Four Step Brothers, America's foremost dancing
quartet…", Marcus Glaser, Charles Hogan Agency, Chicago
"Harry Qubey's Dog Circus" (reproduction) (from the Olsen and
Johnson collection), 1941
"The Jewess! Or, The Council of Constance." , Boston Museum
playbill, approx. 19 x 9 in., ca. 1850s
Minstrel show sign - no text
"The New Ravel, Humpty-Dumpty", cardboard poster, ca. 1900
"Paul Wenzel, producing original, clown-walk-arounds", Charles
Hogan Agency, Chicago
Standard Theatre program (New York, week ending ), Apr 20,
1889
(received with Dixon-Freeman collection)
"The 'Two Black Crows': pitiful end of one of the Moran and Mack
team of popular merrymakers recalls some of the jokes and funny
dialogues which amused Americans for many years." ( American Weekly
article, 1937)
"Vaudeville's High-Water Mark - All-Star Bill Houdini, Frank
McIntyre, Joe Cook", playbill, 1922
"Willie, West & McGinty", George A. Hamid and Son,
1940s
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Mae West, Paramount poster
mounted on particle board, 26.5 x 20 in., 1931
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Oversize Storage
Color lithograph posters, approx. 40 x 80 in. each, 1907-08
Scope and Contents
Clown heads (2 posters)
Dancing girls (3 posters)
Somersaulting bicycle act (1 poster)
Oversize Storage
Posters, 1934 ca. 1941
playbill ca.
1940 ca.
1940 1958
Scope and Contents
"George Primrose and His Minstrels / Olsen & Johnson /
…", Crystal playbill, 42 x 14 in.
"'Skipper' Don Mills … / The Four Gondoliers / Blib and Blob
/ …", 1934 playbill, 3 ft. 6 in. x 2 ft. 4
in.
(received as part of the Gondoliers/Ricci collection)
"Pat Rooney, Jr. / George & Dixie, Radio Stars / other big
acts - screen: Sailors On Leave", ca.
1941 playbill
"Salem Paramount / Salem Empire, New Year's Eve … Mammoth",
ca. 1940 playbill
"Vaudeville Revue featuring Follies stars Buster West & Co.",
ca. 1940 playbill
"Fort Massacre, starring Joel McCrea", 1958
movie poster
This series encompasses popular sheet music from the late 1890s to the
mid-1940s, as well as two opera librettos from 1859 and the 1920s. Most are
the original item; a few are color photocopies. They are arranged
alphabetically by title. Several are associated with shows such as the
Ziegfeld Follies. Each features images of one or more performers on the
cover.
Sheet music can also be found in the Performers files and in individual or
family collections, particularly the Dixon-Freeman collection.
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Librettos, 1859 ca. 1920s
Scope and Contents
Norma, composed by [Vincenzo]
Bellini (Ditson & Co.'s standard opera libretto,
28 pp.) 1859
Die Walküre, a musical drama in three acts, by Richard Wagner; English
version by Charles Henry
Meltzer; pub. by Fred. Rullman, Inc. (New York);
libretto, for Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera ca.
1920s
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Sheet Music, A, 1905-1932
Scope and Contents
After All (Lee S. Roberts, lyric J. Will Callahan)
1919
After the Ball (Charles K. Harris) 1920
Ain't She Sweet? (Milton Ager, lyric Jack Yellen)
1927
Album of Bert Williams Famous Song Hits 1905,
1932 - 2 copies
All Alone Monday from The Ramblers (Harry Ruby, lyric Bert Kalmar)
1926
All She Does Is Follow them Around (Maurice Abraham, lyric Grant
Clarke) 1914
All I Want Is You (Benny Davis, Sidney Clare, Harry Akst)
1927
Alma (Jean Briquet, English lyric George V. Hobart - translated
from Alma, Where Do You Live? Alma Wo Wohnst Du, German lyric Adolf
Philipp) 1910
Along the Rocky Road to Dublin (Bert Grant, lyric Joe Young)
1915
Always Be Honey to Me (Jeff Branen, Arthur Lange, Max Prival)
1915
Always in My Heart [Forever on My Mind] (J. Fred Coots, lyric Roy
Turk) 1932
Am I Blue? (Harry Akst, lyric Grant Clarke) from On with the Show
1929
And Then (Herman Paley, lyric Alfred Bryan)
1913
Are You Sorry? (Milton Ager, lyric Benny Davis)
1925
Are You Lonesome To-night? (Roy Turk and Lou Handman)
1927
Arizona Stars Song (Carl Rupp, lyric George Little)
1923
At Sundown [When Love Is Calling Me Home] (Walter Donaldson)
1927
At the End of the Broken Down Trail (Fred Rose)
1931
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Sheet Music, B - D, 1907-1932
Scope and Contents
Back in the Old Sunday School (Phillips H. Lord, May Singhi Breen,
Peter DeRose) 1932
Back in Your Own Back Yard (Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Dave Dreyer)
1928
Beside an Open Fireplace (Paul Denniker, Will Osborne)
1929
Boogie Woogie on W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues (Earl Hines)
1914, 1942, 1945
Boston Town (Felix Rice, John Rehauser, lyric Wilbur Mack)
1907
Breezin Along with the Breeze (Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons,
Richard A. Whiting) 1926
By the River Sainte Marie (Harry Warren, lyric Edgar Leslie)
1931
Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear (Sag Mir
Darling, English lyric Dorothy Dick) 1931
(German music and lyric Bert Reisfeld, Mart Fryberg, Rolf
Marbot)
Cheerful Little Earful from Sweet and Low (Harry Warren, lyric Ira
Gershwin, Billy Rose) 1930
Cross My Heart, Mother [I Love You] (Jack McCoy, Sam Williams,
lyric Al Piantadosi) 1925
Crying for You (Ned Miller, Chester Cohn)
1923
Dinah (Harry Akst, lyric Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young)
1925
Dreamy Melody (Ted Koehler, Frank Magine, C. Naset)
1922
Drifting (Gertrude Lincoff, lyric Max Siegel)
1930
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Sheet Music, E - F, 1897-1945
Scope and Contents
Eddie Cantor Song and Joke Book for 1934
Feather Your Nest [Emplumez le Nid] (Kendis Brockman, Howard
Johnson, French lyric A. Bollaert) 1920
Five Salted Peanuts (Charlie Abbott) 1945
Follow the Swallow (Ray Henderson, lyric Billy Rose, Mort Dixon)
1924
Footlight Favorites (Frank Banta) 1897
Forgetting (Ray Mitchell) 1927
Forgive Me (Milton Ager, lyric Jack Yellen)
1927
Forgive Me (Milton Ager, lyric Jack Yellen)
1927 (different cover)
Francis & Day's Album of Harry Lauder's Popular Songs
1905
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Sheet Music, G - H, 1904-1932
Scope and Contents
The Gaby Glide (Louis A. Hirsh, lyric Harry Pilcer)
1911
Garden of My Dreams, from Ziegfeld Follies (Louis A. Hirsh, Dave
Stamper, lyric Gene Buck) 1918
The Gem Dance Folio for 1932 (Elliot Shapiro)
1932
Gloomy Moon (Harry Geise) 1924
Go As Far As You Like, Kid (W. Percival Kelgard, lyric Will H.
Smith) 1909
Good-night My Own Love (Jean Schwartz, lyric Stanislaus Stange and
William Jerome), from The Musical Gems of F.C. Whitney's Piff! Paff!
Pouf! A Musical Cocktail 1904
Good Night Nurse (W. Raymond Walker, lyric Thomas J. Gray)
1912
Gypsy Fiddles (Allie Wrubel) 1933
Half a Moon [Is Better Than No Moon], from Honeymoon Lane (Herbert
Reynolds, Eddie Dowling, James F. Hanley) 1926
Hasta Manana [Until Tomorrow] (Al Hegbom, Egbert Van Alstyne,
lyric Haven Gillespie) 1924
Hello My Dearie, from Ziegfeld Follies (Dave Stamper, lyric Gene
Buck) 1917
Hello Evening Star (Jack Scholl, Henry Lodge, Emil Seidel)
1932
Here I Am (Ray Henderson, lyric B.G. de Sylvia, Lew Brown)
1926
Honolulu Eyes (Violinsky, lyric Howard Johnson)
1921
The Hours I Spent with You (Little Jack Little, lyric Stan Lewis,
Joe Young) 1927
Hush-a-Bye (Robert E. Spencer, lyric Frank X. Galvin)
1926
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Sheet Music, I, 1899-1930
Scope and Contents
I Can't Give You Anything But Love [Baby], from Lew Leslie's
Blackbirds of 1928 (Jimmy McHugh, lyric Dorothy Fields)
1928 (lacks insert leaf, only has last page
of the score)
I Love a Lassie [Ma Scotch Bluebell] (Harry Lauder, Gerald
Grafton) 1906
I Love Me - I'm Wild About Myself (Will Mahoney)
1923
I Love You - That's One Thing I Know (L. Wolfe Gilbert, Anatol
Friedland) 1915
I Miss a Little Miss [Who Misses Me in Sunny Tennessee] (J. Fred
Coots, lyric Tot Seymour) 1930
I Wonder Who's Dancing with You To-Night (Ray Henderson, lyric
Mort Dixon, Billy Rose) 1924
If I Could Be with You (Henry Creamer, Jimmy Johnson)
1926
If My Love Could Talk (Harry Kogen, lyric Lou Holzer)
1935
If You Had All the World and Its Gold (Albert Piantados, lyric
Bartley Costello, Harry Edelheit) 1916
I'll Keep On Loving You (Joseph B. Carey)
1916
I'm a Lonesome Melody (George W. Meyer, lyric Joe Young)
1915
I'm As Happy As Can Be (Hazel Graves, lyric Tell Taylor)
1926
I'm Crazy 'Bout the Turkey Trot (George W. Meyer, lyric Joe
Goodwin) 1911
I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry (Charles R. McCarron, Carey Morgan)
1918
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover (Harry Woods, lyric Mort
Dixon) 1927
I'm Sorry That I Let That Gentleman In (Wilfred Herbert, lyric
Jean Charez) 1902 (color photocopy)
I'm Through [Shedding Tears Over You] (Edwin J. Weber, lyric Karyl
Norman) 1922
I'm Waiting in Dreamland for You (W.R. Williams)
1921
In a Little Spanish Town (Mabel Wayne, lyric Lewis and Young)
1926
In My Hide-Away (K. L. Binford) 1932
In My Indiana Home (Larry Shay, lyric Harry Harris)
1929
An Innocent Young Maid, from In Wall Street (Richard Carle,
Maurice Levi, lyric Richard Carle) 1899
It All Depends On You (B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)
1926
It Had to Be You (Isham Jones, lyric Gus Kahn)
1924
It's Never Too Late to Be Sorry (Jos. A. Burke, lyric James E.
Dempsey) 1918
I've Got Rings on My Fingers (Maurice Scott, lyric Weston and
Barnes) 1909
I've Got Everything I Want But You (Henry I. Marshall, lyric
Marion Sunshine) 1913
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Sheet Music, J - L, 1908-1928
Scope and Contents
Jigs and Reels, in two volumes, vol. I, academic edition
Jimmy Valentine (Gus Edwards, lyric Edward Madden)
1910
Just an Old Bouquet [of a Bye-Gone Day] (Lew Porter, Harry
Edelbert, Mel Ball) 1928
Just Cause I Lub Yo (Charles F. Gall, lyric Kate Thyson Mann)
1908 [color photocopy]
Laugh! Clown! Laugh! (Ted Fiorito, lyric Lewis and Young)
1928
Let Me Spend the Journey's End with You (Billy Baskette)
1926
Let Us Waltz As We Say Goodbye (Art L. Beiner)
1925
Limehouse Blues (Philip Braham, lyric Douglas Furber)
1922
Little Brown Hut in the Hills (Ethwell "Eddie" Hanson)
1926
Little Darling Marguerite (Eliza Doyle Smith)
1919
Little Rag Baby Doll (Lewis F. Muir, lyric L. Wolfe Gilbert)
1913
Log Cabin Lullaby (Cal De Voll) 1926
London Bridge Is Falling Down on the Isle of Childhood Dreams
(Harry I. Robinson, lyric Louis Robinson) 1923
Lonesome [for You] (Earl Smith, Tell Taylor)
1925
Long, Lean, Lanky Letty (Sydney Grant) 1914
Looking at the World Thru Rose Colored Glasses (Tommy Malie and
Jimmy Steiger) 1926
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Sheet Music, M, 1907-1942
Scope and Contents
Madeira (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, M. K. Jerome)
1925
Make-Believe, from Show Boat (Jerome Kern, lyric Oscar
Hammerstein) 1927
Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose (Richard A. Whiting, lyric Raymond
Egan) 1916
Mammy's Lullaby (Pete Bontsema, Julius Peto, Marty Jacobi, lyric
Al Cameron, Julius Seidor) 1929
Marta, Rambling Rose of the Wildwood (Moises Simons, arr. Rosamond
Johnson, English lyric L. Wolfe Gilbert [also in Spanish]
1931
Martha: Just a Plain Old Fashioned Name (Joe L. Sanders)
1922
Mem-o-ries (Harry H. Williams, lyric Morgan Brown)
1914
Mickey (Neil Moret, lyric Harry Williams)
1918
Mister Five by Five (Don Raye, Gene De Paul)
1942
Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean, from Ziegfeld Follies 1922 (Ed
Gallagher, Al Shean) 1922
Moments with You (Nat Shilkret, lyric Jack Yellen)
1928
Momsy (Jack Yellen, Ed "Nemo" Roth, Dave Ringle)
1927
Moonbeam Kiss Her for Me (Harry Woods, lyric Mort Dixon)
1927
Moonlight and Roses [Bring Mem'ries of You] (Edwin H. Lemare, Ben
Black, Neil Moret) 1925
My Isle of Golden Dreams (Walker Blaufuss, lyric Gus Kahn)
1919
My Sin (B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)
1929
My Song of the Nile (Al Bryan, George W. Meyer)
1929 (with 15 other songs; untitled
compilation with star portraits)
My Twilight Queen (Lou Hirsh, lyric Jean Havez)
1907
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Sheet Music, O - R, 1906-1935
Scope and Contents
Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee! You're the Only Girl for Me (Albert Von
Tilzer, lyric Lew Brown) 1919
Oh, Donna Clara (J. Petersburgski, lyric Beda; English version
Irving Caesar) 1930
Oh! Gee, Oh! Gosh, Oh! Golly I'm in Love, from Zeigfeld Follies
(Ernest Brener, lyric Olson and Johnson) 1923
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh (Abe Olman, lyric Ed Rose)
1917 [Olman portrait on the cover]
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh (Abe Olman, lyric Ed Rose)
1917 [different edition, flapper on the
cover]
Only a Rose You Once Gave Me (H.C. Weasner)
1926
Only a Weaver of Dreams (Ethwell Eddie Hanson)
1924
Pal of My Cradle Days (Al Piantadosi, lyric Marshall Montgomery)
1925
Peg O' My Heart (Fred Fischer, lyric Alfred Bryan)
1913
Poor Butterfly, from The Big Show at the New York Hippodrome
(Raymond Hubbell, lyric John L. Golden) 1916
Put Away a Little Ray of Golden Sunshine for a Rainy Day (Fred E.
Ahlert, lyric Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young) 1924
Put Away a Little Ray of Golden Sunshine for a Rainy Day (Fred E.
Ahlert, lyric Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young) 1924
(different edition)
Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey [I Never Knew Any Girl Like You]
(Albert Von Tilzer, lyric Junie McCree) 1910
Rae! Rae! Rae! (John C. Rundback) music section, New York American
and Journal July 8, 190[6]
[color photocopy]
Reaching for the Moon (Benny Davis, Jesse Greer)
1926
Rememb'ring, from Topsy and Eva (Duncan Sisters)
1923
River, Stay 'Way from My Door (Harry Woods, lyric Mort Dixon)
1931
Roam On My Little Gypsy Sweetheart (Francis Wheeler, Irving Kahal,
Ted Snyder) 1927
Rocky Mountain Rose (M. K. Jerome, lyric Joan Jasmyn, Wm. Tracey)
1931
Roll Along Prairie Moon (Ted Fierito, Harry MacPherson, Albert Von
Tilzer) 1935
A Rose and a Kiss, from La Paloma (Mabel Wayne, lyric Bennée
Russell) 1931
Rose of Washington Square (James F. Hanley, lyric Ballard
Macdonald) 1920
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Sheet Music, S, 1905-1937
Scope and Contents
Save Your Sorrow [for To-morrow] (Al Sherman, lyric B.G. De Sylva)
1925
Shanghai Honeymoon (Wm. L. Shockley, Chas. J. Hausman, Lester
Melrose) 1926
Side by Side (Harold Dixon, lyric Claude Sacre)
1922
Side by Side (Harry Woods) 1927
A Smile Will Go a Long Long Way (Benny Davis, Harry Akst)
1923
Soft Boiled Ballads: A Collection of Heart-wrecking Songs (H. W.
Hanemann) 1931
Some of These Days (Shelton Brooks) 1922
Somebody's Sweetheart I Want to Be (Cobb and Edwards)
1905
Someday Soon (Edna Fischer, lyric Rosetta and Vivian Duncan)
1929
Someday Sweetheart (John C. Spikes, Benjamin Spikes)
1924
Sorry and Blue (Bob Elbel, Don Elbel) 1925
Swanee River Dreams (Wendell Words Hall, Carson J. Robison)
1924
Sweet Southern Love (Howard Johnson, Irving Bibo, Joe Darcy)
1925
Sweet Sue - Just You (Victor Young, lyric Will J. Harris)
1928
Sweet Varsity Sue from Life Begins in College (Charles Tobias, Al
Lewis, Murray Mencher) 1937
Sweetheart I'm Sorry [That I Made You Cry] (Frank Westphal, lyric
Charley Newman) 1928
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Sheet Music, T - V, 1907-1931
Scope and Contents
Take Me to the Midnight Cake Walk Ball (Eddie Cox, Arthur Jackson,
Maurice Abraham) 1915
Talking to the Moon (Billy Baskette, George A. Little)
1926
That's Some Love (George M. Cohan) 1908
That's Why You Make Me Cry (Joe Verges, Henri Therrien, Irwin
LeClere) 1923
There's Something Nice About Everyone But There's Everything Nice
About You (Pete Wendling, lyric Arthur Terker, Alfred Bryan)
1927
This Is My Love Song (Joe Burke, lyric Al Dubin)
1931
This Is the Life (Irving Berlin) 1914
To Think I Thought So Much of You and You Thought So Little of Me
(Jack Little, lyric Tommie Malie) 1924
To-Night You Belong to Me (Lee David, lyric Billy Rose)
1926
Trading Smiles (Don Ramsay) 1907
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream (Rennie Cormack, lyric John J.
O'Brien, Al Dubin) 1916
Under the Moon (Ev. E. Lyn, Francis Wheeler, Ted Snyder)
1927
Underneath the Stars with You (Nick Lucas, lyric Sam H. Stept)
1927
The Victor Dance Folio, no.3 1907
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Sheet Music, W - Y, 1912-1934
Scope and Contents
Waitin' for the Evenin' Mail [Sittin' On the Inside, Lookin' at
the Outside] (Billy Baskettee) 1923 (2
copies)
Waitin' for the Moon (Sam Lerner, lyric Joe Brown)
1925
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry? (Walter Donaldson, Abe
Lyman) 1926
When I Was the Dandy and You Were the Belle (Lou Handman and Dave
Dreyer, lyric Herman Ruby) 1924
When I Wore My Daddy's Brown Derby [and You Wore Your Mother's
Blue Gown] (Max Rich, lyric Harry Pease, Chas O'Flynn)
1931
When It's Apple Blossom Time in Normandy (Mellor Gifford and
Trevor) 1912
When It's Lamp Lightin' Time in the Valley (Joe Lyons, Sam C.
Hart, The Vagabonds (Harold - Dean - Curt) 1933
When the Chapel Bells Were Ringing (Clarence Gaskill, lyric Cal De
Voll) 1931
When You Come to the End of the Day (Frank Westphal, lyric Gus
Kahn) 1929
When You're in Love (Walter Donaldson, Walter Blaufuss)
1926
Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?
(George W. Meyer, lyric Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young)
1916
Where the Mill Stream Winds Its Way (Harold Dixon, lyric Claude
Sacre) 1923
Where the Song Birds Sing "Good Mornin' (Ed East, W.R. Williams)
1931
Where the Shy Little Violets Grow (Gus Kahn, Harry Warren)
1928
Wonderful One (Paul Whiteman, Ferdie Grofé, adapted from a theme
by Marshall Nielan; lyric Dorothy Terriss) 1923
Wait You Believe in Me (Lester Palmer, Jess Williams)
1926
With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel)
1934 (photocopy)
Would You Take Me Back Again? (Peter De Rose, Alfred Solman)
1931
You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me (Egbert Van Alstyne, lyric Paul
Cunningham) 1923
You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Baby (A. Seymour Brown)
1916
You're Lucky to Me, from Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930 (Eubie
Blake, lyric Andy Razaf) 1930
You're Tired of Me (Don York, Jack Sadler, Pauline Brown)
1931
This series comprises primarily magazines, with some other items such as
calendars and catalogues grouped here due to similar format. The titles are
loosely grouped in pre-1950 and post-1950 sections, with titles represented
by single or a few issues presented first and organized alphabetically by
title. The groupings are based in part on size; the last two boxes are
larger-format titles. Within each title, the issues are organized
chronologically. There are also some tear sheets and an oversize
article.
Some periodicals can also be found in the Performers files.
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Conkey's One-to-fill of (photocopy), 1920
27
2
Conkey's One-to-fill of (photocopy), 1921
27
3
Conkey's One-to-fill of (photocopy), 1923
27
4
Liberty (lacks cover; half of p.33-34 cut
out), Nov 16, 1929
27
5
The Official Vaudeville Guide, v.3,
no.2, (1927)
27
6
Radio Stars , Jan.
1931
27
7
Theatre Arts , Sep.
1940 Dec.
1940 Jan.
1951
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Loose tearsheets, reproductions, ca.
1916-1960s
28
2
"The future of vaudeville" by Newman Levy; "The composer of
'Alexander's Ragtime Band'" by Irving Berlin, as told to Russel Crouse
(first page only). Unidentified magazine ( ), pp. 75-80., 1911
28
3
The Billboard: the theatrical digest and show
world review , Oct. 13, 1928
Scope and Contents
Oct. 13, 1928
The Billboard: the world's foremost amusement
weekly , Feb. 26, 1938
Scope and Contents
Feb. 26, 1938 - cover Fred
Allen
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Broadway Weekly , Sep. 21, 1904
Scope and Contents
Sep. 21, 1904 - special
vaudeville number
28
5
The Dance Magazine: glorifying the dance
, Nov.
1927
Scope and Contents
Nov. 1927 - cover Maryon
Vadie
28
6
The Fra: a journal of affirmation
, June
1910
Scope and Contents
v.5, no.3 ( June 1910) - the
vaudeville number
28
7
Gallery of Players, from The Illustrated
American , 1894 1894
Scope and Contents
no.2 ( 1894), ed. Charles Fdc.
Nirdlinger
no.3 ( 1894), ed. Marwell Hall
28
8
Paris Qui Chante , Sept. 2, 190-
Scope and Contents
, 4e année, no. 189 ( Sept. 2, 190-)
28
9
Pictures of Movie Stars, with stories by
Mae Tinée (Racine: Whitman Pub. Co., ), 1937
28
10
The Player: The official organ of The White Rats
of America, Inc. , Mar. 11, 1910 July 29, 1910 July 21, 1911 Dec. 22, 1911
Scope and Contents
v.1, no.14 ( Mar. 11,
1910)
v.2, no.34 ( July 29,
1910)
v.4, no.33 ( July 21,
1911)
Anniversary & Christmas number ( Dec. 22, 1911)
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Stage: the magazine of after-dark
entertainment , Dec.
1936 Jan.
1938 Mar.
1938 Dec.
1940
Scope and Contents
Dec. 1936 - cover Fanny Brice
Jan. 1938 - cover Ed Wynn
Mar. 1938 - cover Beatrice Lillie
Dec. 1940
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The Theatre (pub. by Meyer Bros. &
Co., New York), Mar.
1905 June
1905
Scope and Contents
v.5, no.49 ( Mar. 1905) -
cover Dustin Farnum as
"The Virginian"
v.5, no.52 ( June 1905) -
cover Miss Eleanor
Robson, in "She Stoops to Conquer"
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Theatre Magazine: for the lovers of stage and
screen , Mar.
1927
29
4
Variety Daily: News of the show world
(published in Hollywood), Oct. 29, 1941
Scope and Contents
v.33, no.38, sec. 2 ( Oct. 29,
1941)
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New York Star , Mar. 22, 1916 July 12, 1916
Scope and Contents
v.15, no.26, whole no.390 ( Mar. 22,
1916)
v.16, no.16, whole no.406 ( July 12,
1916)
The Vaudeville News , Dec. 26, 1924
Scope and Contents
v.9, no.25 ( Dec. 26,
1924)
The Vaudeville News and New York Star
, Oct. 13, 1928 Jan. 19, 1929 Feb. 2, 1929 May 25, 1929
Scope and Contents
v.18, no.16 ( Oct. 13,
1928)
v.19, no.4 ( Jan. 19,
1929)
v.19, no.6 ( Feb. 2,
1929)
v.19, no.22 ( May 25,
1929)
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Wirth and Hamid, Fair Booking Inc. - world's
greatest attractions , ca. 1932
Note: not available for viewing - extremely
fragile, and most issues are partial rather than complete.
, May
1890 Jan. 8, 1898 Jan. 15, 1898 Jan. 22, 1898 Jan. 29, 1898 Feb. 5, 1898 Feb. 12, 1898 Feb. 19, 1898 Feb. 26, 1898 Mar. 5, 1898 Mar. 12, 1898 Mar. 19, 1898 Mar. 26, 1898 Apr. 2, 1898 Apr. 9, 1898 Apr. 16, 1898 June 18, 1898 July 16, 1898 July 23, 1898 July 30, 1898 Nov. 15, 1902 Nov. 22, 1902
Mar. 5, 1898; Mar. 12, 1898; Mar. 19, 1898; Mar. 26, 1898
Apr. 2, 1898; Apr. 9, 1898; Apr. 16, 1898
June 18, 1898
July 16, 1898; July 23, 1898
July 30, 1898
Nov. 15, 1902; Nov. 22, 1902 (1 sheet from each
only)
Variety (published in New
York), Mar. 28, 1908 Apr. 4, 1908 May 2, 1908 June 6, 1908 June 8, 1908 June 27, 1908 Apr. 24, 1909 July 24, 1909 July 31, 1909 June 4, 1910 June 18, 1910 July 1, 1911 Aug. 26, 1911
Scope and Contents
v.10, no.3 ( Mar. 28,
1908)
v.10, no.4 ( Apr. 4,
1908)
v.10, no.8 ( May 2,
1908)
v.10, no.13 ( June 6,
1908)
v.11, no.1 ( June 8,
1908)
v.11, no.3 ( June 27,
1908)
v.14, no.7 ( Apr. 24,
1909)
v.15, no.7 ( July 24,
1909)
v.15, no.8 ( July 31,
1909)
v.18, no.13 ( June 4,
1910)
v.19, no.2 ( June 18,
1910)
v.23, no.4 ( July 1,
1911)
v.23, no.12 ( Aug. 26,
1911)
Variety (published in New
York), Jan. 11, 1918 Apr. 12, 1918
Scope and Contents
v.49, no.7 ( Jan. 11,
1918)
v.50, no.7 ( Apr. 12,
1918)
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Loose article: "Fabulous Fanny" [ Fanny Brice], by Norman Katkov. Ladies' Home Journal ( ), pp. 48-49,123-129., Jan.
1953
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Loose article: "Refugee from Burlesque" [ Phil Silvers], by Stanley Frank.
The Saturday Evening Post ( ), pp.
40-41,146-150., Jan.
1953
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Bloody Beautiful , 2000 2001?
Scope and Contents
issue 1 ( 2000) - includes 7-inch red vinyl
album of songs from 1916, performed in 1967/1972 by Ian Whitcomb
issue 2 ( 2001?)- includes 10-inch blue vinyl
marbleized album of songs by Al
Bowlly, Lilian
Harvey & Willie Firtsch, Sophie Tucker, and Durium Dance
Band / Fred
Douglas (1928-36)
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Life , Oct. 23, 1950 Mar. 18, 1957 Apr. 18, 1969
Scope and Contents
Oct. 23, 1950 - cover "TV
gets top comics - Ed
Wynn"
Mar. 18, 1957 - cover "
Beatrice Lillie,
girls from New Ziegfeld Follies"
Apr. 18, 1969 - cover "
Mae West going strong at
75"
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Life , Feb. 19, 1971 Dec. 31, 1971 Feb.
1980
Scope and Contents
Feb. 19, 1971 - cover
"Everybody's just wild about…nostalgia"
Dec. 31, 1971 - cover "The
year in pictures 1971"
Feb. 1980 - cover "Whatever
became of Mary Astor and other lost stars?"
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Look , Apr. 10, 1951
Scope and Contents
Apr. 10, 1951- cover "TV's
old-new stars prove that laughs begin at 40"
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Paris Match , Jan. 15, 1972
Scope and Contents
Jan. 15, 1972- cover
"Chevalier: 30 pages"
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Bijou , Apr.
1977
Scope and Contents
Apr. 1977
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The Call Boy: The official journal of the British
Music Hall Society , spring 1997 winter 1999 winter 2003
The Call Boy: The official journal of the British
Music Hall Society , spring 2003 spring 2007
Scope and Contents
v.40, no.1 ( spring 2003) - v.44, no.1 (
spring 2007)
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Dance Magazine , Sep.
1966
Scope and Contents
Sep. 1966
32
5
Juggle: the official magazine of the
International Jugglers' Association , July/Aug. 2000 Mar./Apr. 2001 Nov./Dec. 2006
Scope and Contents
July/Aug. 2000
Mar./Apr. 2001
Nov./Dec. 2006
(complete and partial copies)
and related correspondence to Frank Cullen
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The Keaton Chronicle , spring 1995 spring 1995 summer 1996 autumn 1996 spring 1995 spring 1997 summer 1997 spring 1995 spring 1998 autumn 1998 winter 1999 spring 1999 summer 1999 autumn 1999/winter
2000 spring 2000
Liberty: the nostalgia magazine
, spring 1972 winter 1972
Scope and Contents
v.1, no.4 ( spring 1972), no.7 (
winter 1972)
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Lompoc Picayune-Intelligencer: the official
newsletter of the W.C. Fields Fan Club , spring 1996 summer 1996 fall 1996/winter
1997 spring 1997 winter 1998 winter 2000 winter/spring 2001
Scope and Contents
issue no.8 ( spring 1996)
issue no.9 ( summer 1996)
issue no.10 ( fall 1996/winter 1997)
issue no.11 ( spring 1997)
issue no.12 ( winter 1998)
issue no.15 ( winter 2000)
issue no.16 ( winter/spring 2001)
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Mad , June
2003
Scope and Contents
no.430 ( June 2003) -
special edition: Boston Comedy & Movie Festival
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10
Marquee: the journal of the Theatre Historical
Society , 1977 Aug 17, 1925 2003 2004
Scope and Contents
v.9, no.2 (2nd quarter 1977) - reproduction
of Balaban & Katz Magazine, v.1,
no.23 ( Aug 17, 1925),
featuring the Uptown Theatre in Chicago (photocopy)
v.35, no.4 (4th quarter 2003)
v.36, no.1 (1st-4th quarters 2004), and
supplement to no. 2
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11
Modern Maturity , July/Aug. 2001
Scope and Contents
July/Aug. 2001
32
12
Movie Crazy: a newsletter for people who love
movies , summer 2006 autumn 2006 winter 2007 spring 2007
Scope and Contents
issue no.17 ( summer 2006)
issue no.18 ( autumn 2006)
issue no.19 ( winter 2007)
issue no.20 ( spring 2007)
Back issues available as of Autumn, 2006 (flyer)
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Nostalgia Illustrated: the pleasures of the
past , Apr.
1973
Scope and Contents
v.2, no.4 ( Apr. 1973) -
lacks cover
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2
Old News , Mar.-Nov. 1999
Scope and Contents
Free sample copy
Mar.-Nov. 1999
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3
Old News , Jan./Feb.-Dec. 2000
Scope and Contents
Jan./Feb.-Dec. 2000
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4
Old News , Jan./Feb.-July/Aug. 2001
Scope and Contents
Jan./Feb.-July/Aug.
2001
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On Tap: a publication of The International Tap
Association , Apr./May/June 2005 July/Aug. 2005
Scope and Contents
v.15, no.5 ( Apr./May/June
2005)
v.16, no.1 ( July/Aug.
2005)
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2
The Passing Show: newsletter of the Shubert
Archive , 2002 2003 2004/2005
Scope and Contents
v.22, no.2 ( 2002)
v.23 ( 2003)
v.24 ( 2004/2005)
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3
Past Times: the nostalgia entertainment
newsletter , Jan.? 1998 Apr.? 1998 Nov.? 1998 Apr.? 1999 June? 1999
Scope and Contents
no.30 ( Jan.? 1998)
no.31 ( Apr.? 1998)
no.33 ( Nov.? 1998)
no.34 ( Apr.? 1999)
no.35 ( June? 1999)
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4
Puppetry International: the puppet in
contemporary theatre, film & media , spring/summer 2004 fall/winter 2004 spring/summer 2005 fall/winter 2005 spring/summer 2006
Scope and Contents
issue 15 ( spring/summer 2004)
issue 16 ( fall/winter 2004)
issue 17 ( spring/summer 2005)
issue 18 ( fall/winter 2005)
issue 19 ( spring/summer 2006)
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5
SooNipi Magazine , summer 2007
Scope and Contents
summer 2007
34
6
Theatre: 1983 engagement calendar; based
on pictures from the Harvard Theatre Collection (New York: Abbeville
Press),
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7
This Was Show Business , 1956
Scope and Contents
unnumbered ( 1956)
34
8
The Whole Forty Year Old Hippie Catalog
, 1978
Scope and Contents
unnumbered ( 1978)
34
9
Wild About Harry: the quarterly newsletter of The
Harry Langdon Society , Dec
1996 Sep
1997 winter 1998-98 winter/spring 1999 Nov.
1999
This collection consists primarily of three albums of text with photocopied
and digitally printed images documenting the family's history in variety and
vaudeville, 1904 to 1930, assembled by Mark Balasi, the grandson of Victor
Sr. and Paula Balasic. Photocopies of sheet music from ca. 1920-1927 that
were used by the family in their European and American acrobatic acts, and
by Maria Holz in her earlier solo variety act, are included. Most of these
are arrangements by S. Geiger, a "kapellmeister" in Vienna. There are also
two vintage photographs.
Biographical Note
This series documents the entertainment career of Victor and Paula (Enders)
Balasic and their sons Alfred and Victor, Jr. Paula's parents ran the Circus
Enders in Hungary until 1905. The Balasic family toured throughout Europe
and Russia as a circus and then an acrobatic variety act known as The Great
Merkels or The Five Merkels (1904-1915), The Great Enders (1915), and The 5
Balasis (1916-1924). The family toured the United States in 1923 and
remained there. Following Victor Sr. and Paula's retirement around 1925, the
sons continued to perform along with Alfred's wife, Maria Holz, as the
Balasi Trio (1925-1927), and finally as Florence Micareme & Co.
(1927-1929), featuring Maria. As the Balasi Trio, the act featured a finger
stand by Alfred and a grand finale of a head-to-head vault sequence with
Victor as the vaulter, hence their byline "The Boys with the Steel
Heads."
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Correspondence from Mark Balasi, 1999
39
2
"The Balasis, a Vaudeville Family" - article for the Vaudeville Times ,
39
3
The Balasi's on Stage, 1990s
39
4
The Balasic Family: A Vaudeville Album, 1990s
39
5
The Balasic Family Vaudeville Album, 1994
39
6
Balasic Family Vaudeville Album, vol. II: Sheet
Music, 1999
The collection consists of contracts and documents, photographs, programs,
correspondence, typescripts, and sheet music related to the performances of
Jessica Dixon and her husband, Frank Freeman. Several parts of the
collection refer to their "train sketch" production, "A Minute Late." There
are numerous publicity photographs of themselves and other vaudeville
performers, and glass transparencies used for publicity in theaters. There
is also a substantial sheet music collection.
A memo booklet includes entries by Jessica Dixon of her tour in Europe in
1919-20, with expenses, songs performed at various camps, names and
addresses of some servicemen she met, and a handwritten score for "Keep the
home-fires burning", as well as later entries of poetry, lyrics, and
inspirational texts, with some entries in a different hand. There are
handwritten chronologies for both Dixon and Freeman. There is an interview,
clipping, and list of film and television credits for their daughter, the
actress Kathleen Freeman.
Biographical Note
This collection documents the careers of Jessica Dixon (b.1888), a soprano
singer known as "The Overseas Girl" at the end of World War I as she
entertained American troops in England, France and post-war Germany; and
Frank Freeman (b.1884), "The Minstrel Man," who headed Freeman's Forty
Musical Minstrels in 1918. From 1922 to 1930 they toured together as Dixon
& Freeman, described as "The Singer & The Minstrel" or "The Overseas
Girl and That Minstrel Fellow", performing musical theater. They performed a
form of blackface called "black and tan" (him black, her tan). In the
mid-1920s they identified themselves as The Van Gordons. Their young
daughter Kathleen (1919-2001) accompanied them on the road, and began
performing with them at the age of two. Dixon subsequently taught voice in
Los Angeles; Freeman served as president of California Artists' Protective
Association.
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Chronologies,
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2
Papers related to Kathleen Freeman,
40
3
Clippings,
40
4
Note: extremely fragile, not to be removed from
Mylar housing; has reference photocopy , March 19, 1864
40
5
Contracts, 1923-1929
40
6
Correspondence, 1919-1930
40
7
Correspondence, Actors Union of America/American Artists'
Federation, 1929
40
8
Documents, 1888-1943
40
9
Maquette for advertising flyer, "A Dark Honeymoon",
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10
Papers, miscellaneous,
40
11
Periodicals and tearsheets,
40
12
Programs, 1913-1934
Scope and Contents
Gamut Auditorium, Wallis School of Dramatic Art (Los Angeles) -
"Cousin Kate", Sep. 15,
1913
Gamut Auditorium, Wallis School of Dramatic Art (Los Angeles) -
"The Silver Snuff Box", Dec. 1,
1913
Mason Opera House (Los Angeles), Sep. 4, 1916
Keel Klub (Long Beach?) - Freeman's 40 Musical Minstrels and
Vodevil, ca. 1918
Constance Alexandre, mezzo soprano - promotional flyer,
1920
Santa Fe Reading Room (Shopton, Iowa) - "The Philharmonic Four"
(with Jessica Dixon), Feb. 9,
1920
The Huntington (San Marino, Calif.?) - Sunday Evening Concert by
the Huntington Artist Ensemble, Mar.
7, 1920
This series comprises contracts, photographs, handwritten scores, notes and
clippings for stage "gags" and dialogues, and stage scripts by Keith and
others. The photographs are mostly of Keith and his partner and companion,
Maude Parker. There is a scrapbook of script notes and collected clippings
of jokes, and several notebooks with script notes. The few handwritten
musical scores are for performance "cues."
The bulk of the collection consists of stage scripts, some handwritten, most
typed, several by public typists in New York City. Most are undated; those
with copyright dates noted range from 1911 to 1920. There is a substantial
collection of contracts representing the various circuits that Keith and
Parker performed on. The collection was given to the American Vaudeville
Museum in 2001 by Keith's niece, Betty S. Bannister, whose mother was
Keith's sister. She also contributed a biography and a collection
inventory.
Biographical Note
Cato Sells Keith (1882-1951) was born in Iowa and grew up in Helena, Montana,
where his father was newspaper editor. At eighteen he moved to Butte and
worked as a reporter. By the 1910s he was in the east pursuing a career in
vaudeville, and writing stage scripts either himself or jointly; his most
frequent writing collaborators as documented in this collection were Frank
L. Whittier and Bessie Warren. During the 1920s he toured various vaudeville
circuits with Maude Parker, as "Keith and Parker." When the demand for
vaudeville declined, Keith tried unsuccessfully to find work in Hollywood.
He and Parker withdrew to a reclusive life in Montana.
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Biography, collection inventory, by Betty Bannister ,
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2
Papers, miscellaneous,
44
3
Clippings, 1914-1927
44
4
Binder and clipping ad of the Rialto (Butte,
Montana),
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5
Contracts, 1923-1928
44
6
Photographs,
44
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Handwritten scores,
44
8
Scrapbook - "Lost, Strayed and Stolen Jokes",
44
9
Typed stage script page, "Why Did I Do It"; script fragment;
"Gags" clippings,
44
10
Stage script notebooks,
44
11
Handwritten stage scripts, uncredited - "R. U. Married?" and
unidentified,
Handwritten stage script, "My Jim" by Ferdinand Grahame
,
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Handwritten stage script - "Men Be Careful - A Study in Colors"
by Cato S. Keith
,
45
2
Handwritten stage scripts - "What Next?" by Cato S. Keith and Bessie Warren; "A Pair of
Schemers" by Cato S. Keith
,
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3
Typed stage scripts, by Cato S.
Keith and Bessie
Warren - "On the Job", "A Surprise Party" (2
copies),
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4
Typed stage scripts, by Cato S.
Keith and Neil E.
Schaffner - "Isn't It Killing", "Leave It to
Ouija",
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Typed stage scripts - "The Greater Duty" by Chas. H. Smith and Cato S. Keith; "Just for
Instance" by Cato S. Keith
and Ben Barnett ,
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Typed stage scripts - "Mr. Husband and Friend Wife" by Cato S. Keith, "Oh These Men" by
Cato S. Keith and
E.P. McNamee
,
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Typed stage scripts, by Cato S.
Keith and Frank L.
Whittier - "A-Tell-Phone", "It Could Happen [The Omen]",
"On the Job", "Our Anniversary Dinner",
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Typed stage scripts, by Cato S.
Keith and Frank L.
Whittier - "Men Be Careful" (2 versions); by Cato S. Keith only, "Men Be
Careful" (2 copies),
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Typed stage scripts, by Cato S.
Keith and Frank L.
Whittier - "Sherlock the Second [Case for Sherlock]" (2
copies),
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Typed stage scripts, by Cato S.
Keith and Frank L.
Whittier - "Professor Tightwad", "The Weapon", "The White
Cat",
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Typed stage scripts - "Two of a Kind" by W.L. Lockwood, "Little Miss Santa
Claus" by Malcolm Arthur,
"The Mysterious Mr. Why" or "The Man from Central Office" by John Arthur Loining, "Spike
and Lizzie" (uncredited, partial? script),
This series consists of photocopies and digital printouts of press clippings
and photographs describing the lives and careers of John and Winnie
Hennings, who performed together as The Kill Kare Kouple from 1908 through
the World War I years, and of John Hennings' subsequent work in Hollywood
during the 1920s. Some of the clippings and other photocopies relate to an
island summer community frequented by vaudeville performers, Put-In Bay,
Ohio, on Lake Erie, where the Hennings spent the summers early in their
career. There are articles and images related to the band leader Sam Pryor,
his son Arthur Pryor who performed with John Philip Sousa, and Winnie
Henning's mother, Mary Baker Hamlet.
There is also correspondence, a biographical sketch, a list of songs
composed by the couple, and an excerpt from a draft of a biography, "Back
Drop: A Vaudeville Love Story", all written by their daughter, Nancy
(Hennings) Tomlin, who contributed these materials to the American
Vaudeville Museum.
Biographical Note
John Hennings (1886-1933) began performing as a young child with his father,
John Bernard Hennings, and his sister Mamie; they were known as the Hennings
Trio. His mother had performed with her sister as the Lee Sisters; his
cousin Bessie McCoy was also an entertainer, the "Yama-Yama girl." As a
young man John performed in vaudeville acts with his sister and her
husband.
Winnie Hamlet (1882-1961) was the daughter of Mary Baker Hamlet and Charles
Hamlet. Her mother was a talented instrumentalist who studied with Sam
Pryor, a military band leader in St. Joseph, Missouri, where Winnie was
born. The family played locally as the Hamlet Family Band, with Winnie on
cornet. At sixteen Winnie joined The Navassar Ladies Band as a cornet
player, and toured with them for nine years. An offshoot of this group
played in vaudeville theaters, and Winnie joined them. She met John Hennings
in a vaudeville theater, and they were married in 1908.
John and Winnie named themselves the Kill Kare Kouple and developed a
popular act that included his trombone, piano and dancing, her cornet and
songs, and comic banter. He capitalized on his slender build in a humorous
manner that lent him the nickname "The Grasshopper Dancer." In 1913 they
toured with the Sarah Bernhardt tour as the top vaudeville act. In 1915 they
traveled to London where John performed in a show at the London Hippodrome,
"Push and Go!" With the flare-up of war, they performed in hospitals and
elsewhere; John also entertained troops in France and Belgium. It is
possible that he was affected by poison gas at Ypres, since he suffered
chronically from pneumonia after that. They returned to the U.S. and
continued to perform in war benefits, including with Lily Langtry.
John performed in several musical shows in the early 1920s. Winnie was
raising their daughter and missed performing herself, but she contributed a
song to John's act in "A Trial Honeymoon" and as a result their infant
daughter was included in the act. John then went to Hollywood, and in 1930
he played in his only film, The Poor
Millionaire, directed by Richard Talmadge. His health failed and
they relocated near extended family in St. Joseph, Missouri, where John died
three years later at age forty-seven. Winnie opened a restaurant after that,
and died at the age of eighty.
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Correspondence from Nancy (Hennings) Tomlin ,
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Biography (3 pages) of John and Winnie Hennings, by Nancy (Hennings) Tomlin
,
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Excerpt from draft of biography, Back Drop, by Nancy Tomlin ,
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Papers, miscellaneous,
Scope and Contents
Thank-you in "Celtic" style handwriting from John F. Loyd
(photocopy)
List of films by Richard
Talmadge (photocopy)
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Mary [Hamlet] - Sam Pryor, Winnie & Navassar
Orchestra - pictures (digital and photocopy),
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John Hennings - pictures
(digital and photocopy),
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7
John and Winnie Hennings - pictures (digital and
photocopy),
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Press clipping photocopies: Sarah Bernhardt [in "Phedre"], New York, 1913
46
9
Press clipping photocopies: "Push and Go!", London, 1915
46
10
Press clipping photocopies: "Take It From Me", 1923
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Press clipping photocopies: "A Trial Honeymoon", 1924
This collection contains material related to the career of Ole Olsen and Chic
Johnson. It includes signed photographs, playbills, posters and sheet music
from Hellzapoppin. It also includes correspondence between Frank Cullen and
the daughter of Ole Olsen, Moya Olsen Lear, and his grandson, Stephen Ron
Olsen.
Biographical Note
Ole Olsen (born John Sigvard Olsen, 1892-1963) and Chic Johnson (born Harold
Ogden Johnson, 1891-1962) were originally musical entertainers from the
Midwest (Indiana and Illinois) where they met and worked together as band
mates. From there they began performing as a vaudeville comedy act. Their
revue "Hellzapoppin" became a great success on Broadway in 1938 and a motion
picture in 1941. Their comedy act did not translate well or successfully in
the Hollywood film setting; they did some television in 1949 and continued
to perform in their own revues during the early 1950s in Las Vegas, where
they eventually retired.
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Correspondence, 1995-1999 2002
Scope and Contents
Letters from Moya Olsen
Lear to Frank
Cullen, 1995-1999
E-mail from Stephen Ron
Olsen to Frank
Cullen, 2002
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2
Articles, July 23, 1944 Dec. 15, 1999
Scope and Contents
The Milwaukee Journal - Screen and
Radio, Sunday, July 23,
1944 (color original and photocopy)
"Olsen & Johnson, the zaniest of the zanies" by Charles Stumpf, Classic
Images website, accessed Dec. 15,
1999
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3
Postcard, "Chic Johnson in Sons of
Fun", photo by W. Eugene
Smith (2 copies), 1941
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4
Programs and sheet music, 1941-1949
Scope and Contents
The Playbill for the Winter Garden
(New York)
"Hellzapoppin", beginning Monday, July 21, 1941
"Sons O' Fun", beginning Sunday, December 28, 1941
"Laffing Room Only", beginning Sunday, June 24, 1945
Chicago Stage,
1945 (photocopy)
"Laffing Room Only" (souvenir flyer)
"Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun", souvenir program,
ca. 1943
"Olsen & Johnson in Laffing Room Only", souvenir program,
ca. 1944
"Olsen and Johnson's New Hellzapoppin of 1940", souvenir
program
"G'Bye Now, Olsen and Johnson's New Hellzapoppin of 1941", sheet
music
"Souvenir program, Olsen and Johnson in Funzapoppin",
ca. 1949
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Olsen & Johnson perpetual calendar, signed by Moya Olsen Lear , ca. 1999
Note: stored in Box 23, Posters and Oversize
Items ,
This series comprises five items related to modern dance, most including
musical scores.
Biographical Note
Sonia Serova trained in dance at
the Wordsworth School in London, and was influenced by ancient Greek sports
and vase paintings, as a disciplined approach that countered the
then-popular trend for "aesthetic" dancing. Her style of modern dance was
known as "nature dancing." She directed the Vestoff-Serova Russian School of
Dancing in New York City, along with her husband, Veronine Vestoff,, who studied
ballet at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts in Moscow. A film, Sonia Serova Dancers, was produced in 1924.
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Dance of the Witches (reference photocopy), 1922-23
This series comprises photographs and two scrapbooks, documenting the career
of Pearl (Dorothy Elizabeth) Hoff (1912-2003), whose stage name was Doreen
Rae. The scrapbooks contain mostly newspaper clippings, with some
photographs and other texts. There are loose photographs and a few
clippings, many of them apparently removed from another scrapbook. There is
a short biographical sketch written by her daughter, Carolyn Mooney, who
contributed these materials. (Note: This collection was originally received
organized as part of the Performers files.)
Biographical Note
Pearl Hoff's family came to Long Beach from Toronto. She first performed at
age five as "Lil" Miss Long Beach. By age seven she was performing on the
Pantages circuit and at Chautauqua shows, in Canada as well as the U.S.,
with her mother's support. She toured with vaudeville shows along with two
other girls who were friends of hers, Patty Kinney and Fredlyn (also spelled
Fredlin, Fredline, Fredaline) Singleton. She was part of the Franchon &
Marco group, which featured the singer Rose Valyda, and sang and danced as
leading soloist in their act "Baby Songs" during a year-long tour. Aida
Broadbent, who was then director for Franchon and Marco, gave Pearl dance
lessons. Her older sister, Greta (Gretna?) Murray, also performed in a
vaudeville comedy act, with her husband Billy Murray, and they ran the
Oriental Theater in North Long Beach; she died at age twenty-six. Her
brother Gordon died of tuberculosis at age 19, when Pearl was 12.
Around 1930 Pearl took on the stage name Doreen Rae. She was still
associated with Fanchon & Marco, along with a ukulele playing comedian
named Bob (Uke) Henshaw, the trapeze artists Ed and Jennie Rooney, The Four
O'Connors, and the Allison Troupe (from Berlin), in a 1931 touring show
called "Vaudeville Echoes."
Around 1935, at age twenty-three, Pearl stopped touring; she married Robert
Leland Mooney and had three children. She continued to perform in the Long
Beach area. After her husband's death in the late 1940s she worked at
Pacific Press in Los Angeles.
This collection comprises papers, photographs, and a scrapbook, documenting
the career of Nick Ricci and his musical group in the mid-1930s. There are
contracts and business correspondence, a receipt for membership in the
Chicago Federation of Musicians in 1936, and a handwritten log of income.
The photographs are mostly promotional portraits of the group; there are
also some stage shots of them as part of a larger ensemble, including their
performance with the Chef Milani show. There is a large poster (3-1/2 by
2-1/3 feet) for the "Skipper" Don Mills show featuring the Four Gondoliers
as well as "Blib and Blob" and others, from April 1934, which was originally
stored folded in the scrapbook. The collection also includes Nick Ricci's
violin. These materials were donated to the American Vaudeville Museum by
his sons, Larry Ricci, Paul Ricci and Henry Ricci.
Biographical Note
Nick Ricci was part of a Seattle musical group known originally as the Four
Gondoliers and later the Three Gondoliers, or simply the Gondoliers. Two
other members were Henry Ricci and Al Maletta (b.1914). Nick played violin,
and the others played accordion and clarinet / saxophone. A fourth member,
Henry Maiorano, also played accordion, but left the group sometime in 1934.
Their nicknames were Icky, Wicky, Wacky and Woo. They were still in high
school when they began performing.
Their first performance that is documented in this collection is the Black
Ball Line and Egyptian Theatre radio and stage contest in Seattle, in August
1933. As winners of a McKesson opportunity contest, the Four Gondoliers
played in vaudeville acts with Skipper Don Mills, of Portland, around
Oregon, northern California, and Washington in early 1934. The act was
called Don Mills and His Wonder Stars, and included a dozen other
performers. By mid-1934 they were performing with Chef (Joe) Milani's
cooking musicale show, in venues including Oakland and Los Angeles. By 1936
they called themselves the Three Ritto Brothers, and were touring the Bert
Levey Circuit of Vaudeville Theatres. They also used the name The Three
Italian Street Singers.
Information about Nick Ricci's later life is not provided. Al Maletta later
moved to Yakima and started an accordion studio, according to information
from the Yakima Valley Museum.
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Papers, 1933-1936
49
2
Photographs, 1933-1936
49
3
Scrapbook, 1933-1936
49
4
Scrapbook (reference copy),
box
Oversize
Poster, 1934
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50
Violin in case with two bows, extra parts (bridge, strings,
rosin, etc.),
This series consists of materials relating to Julia Rooney (Clinton)
(1887-1990), and to a lesser degree to her brother Pat Rooney Sr. (II)
(1880-1962), and his son Pat Rooney Jr. (III, or Clarence Patrick Rooney)
(1909-1979). There are numerous photographs, mostly autographed publicity
photos of entertainers and actors, which were given to the youngest Pat
Rooney and his wife, Estelle (Wright) Rooney, and displayed in their beach
front restaurant, The Dog House, on Lake Blaisdell, a New Hampshire summer
vaudeville colony. There is a short family history written by Estelle
Rooney; as well as clippings about Chester (Chet) Wright. Some family
photographs are included, as well as two late 19th century cabinet cards of
entertainers, and a silhouette cut-out apparently of Walter Clinton.
Julia Rooney's materials include a scrapbook containing clippings about her
early career with her sister Josie; her solo career from 1910 to the teens;
and her duo career with Walter Clinton (1890-1966), whom she married in
1915. Julia Rooney's other sibling performers, Mattie Rooney (Kennedy)
(1878-1950), and Pat Sr., are mentioned in the scrapbook clippings. Her
papers include the passenger list from the Lusitania from the voyage that
she and Josie took upon their return from their first European tour in June
1908, as well as copyright documents, awards and recognitions. Performance
programs are included in the scrapbook and printed matter. The collection
includes a few items of memorabilia, such as an honorary plaque to Walter
Clinton from the Hollywood Comedy Club (1949-1961) and a trophy to Julia
Rooney from the Ladies' Comedy Club (1972).
Most of the loose clippings, documents, performance programs and other
printed matter, and a few of the photographs, relating to Julia Rooney and
her family were received stored loose within the scrapbook. The scrapbook
pages were mostly detached when received, and include three different page
styles and two sets of covers. There is a small autograph-style album
containing snapshot photographs, approximately 2-1/4 by 4-1/8 inches, of
theaters, many with "Clinton & Rooney" visible on the marquee, and some
with locations noted. There are some photographs of Pat Rooney, Sr.
Biographical Note
Pat Rooney Sr. and Julia Rooney were two of the children of the original Pat
Rooney (1884-1892), a boxer who became famous as a performer, especially for
clog dance. Julia Rooney and her siblings began performing as children in
the 1890s. Julia and her sister Josie toured as the Rooney Sisters
(1903-1910), "daughters of Pat Rooney"; their act split up when Josie
married during their second European tour. In the teens Julia became known
as "The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs." Julia and the singer and actor
Walter Clinton (1890-1966), who performed together as Clinton & Rooney,
married on Christmas Day 1915. In the 1920s they toured with an accompanying
ten-piece band. With the end of the vaudeville era around 1930 they
relocated to Hollywood, where Julia opened a dance school. She performed in
Ken Murray's Blackouts from 1942 to 1949, and appeared on television in The
Sun City Scandals at the age of 82.
Pat Rooney Jr. was the son of Julia's brother, Pat Sr., a well-known
vaudeville and Broadway dancer, and his first wife, the dancer Marion Bent.
(Over the decades, the billing names of the male Rooneys changed. Pat Rooney
referred originally to the grandfather, Pat Jr. to his son, and Pat III to
the grandson. Sometime in the 1930s, after the public memory faded of the
original Pat Rooney, his son, Pat II, simply dropped the "Jr." from his
billing and became Pat Rooney, while his son, Pat III, took the name Par
Rooney Jr. The Pat Rooneys (ii and III) performed together in the 1930s in a
father/son dance act. Pat (II)'s last notable engagement was a featured role
in the cast of the original production of Guys and Dolls, 1950-53. Pat III
largely retired from dance by 1940; he married Estelle Wright (1916-2006),
whose parents, Chester A. Wright and Ola Gay Wright, were traveling
wagon-show entertainers. Chet's acts included trained dogs and birds, and
marionettes. Ola sang, danced, and played mandolin and banjo. Estelle
performed with her parents on the vaudeville circuit as a child. Pat and
Estelle Rooney operated a hot dog stand called The Dog House in Lake
Blaisdell, New Hampshire, an area that served as a summer colony for
vaudeville performers, for 32 years; it closed in 1984.
This series consists of photographs, negatives, papers, and an ad printing
block, documenting the career of Frank J. Sidney. The photographs depict a
circus tour in India as The Great Sidneys, a performance troupe tour in
Australia in 1908, troupe portraits in Johannesburg in 1913, and some
acrobatic acts. Some of the photographs are annotated. From 1922 to 1925
Frank J. Sidney & Co. appeared in B.F. Keith's and other theatres in
Brighton Beach, Jersey City, and Philadelphia. His act at that time was
called "A Morning in a Sportsman's Garden", and featured "Zillah the Singing
Dog."
The papers are mostly theater programs; there is also a copy of Sidney's
handwritten 1965 will. There are postcards sent in 1960 and a 1963 portrait
of Sidney. The ad printing plate is mounted on wood with a partial page with
printed text adhered, advertising a Labor Day event featuring "Frank Sidney
and Abe … Clown Cop". The bulk of this collection was originally
received as part of the Performers materials.
This collection comprises primarily two scrapbooks describing the stage
career of the comedian Leon Errol (1881 or more likely, 1876-1951), on the
vaudeville circuits in the Northwest and then in New York with the Ziegfeld
Follies. There are also later publicity photographs of Errol from Culver
Pictures, First National Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Paramount
Pictures, including roles from "Sally", "A Lunatic at Large", "Dancing
Co-Ed", and "Princess O'Hara." Miscellaneous papers include correspondence
from Chet Dowling that accompanies photocopies about the Ziegfeld Follies
and the role of Abe Erlanger as a financial backer for Florenz Ziegfeld, as
well as information about Errol's career.
The first scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings, playbills, programs,
and handwritten notes from 1904-1906, documenting the Errol's early career
in the Northwest and West Coast as part of the Edward Shields vaudeville
company. Its cover has a label for "Gerald and Errol, German Dialect
Comedians." There are two pages of handwritten text - one of sailor lyrics,
and one of a short stage bit - and a loose sheet of handwritten comedy
lines.
The second scrapbook documents Errol's career on Broadway, including
performances in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1914 along
with his wife, Stella Chatelaine. There is a program from August 1910 of
their comedy performance "A Complicated Affair" with The New Jersey Lillies;
that performance was staged by and largely created by Errol. The bulk of the
scrapbook is news clippings. There is also a New York
Star cover from October 26, 1912 featuring Errol along with Bert
Williams and Ida Adams in a scene from the Ziegfeld Follies; and an undated
playbill from The Player for the New Jersey
Lilies Co., featuring Leon Errol as principal comedian, Stella Chatelaine as
"The Rag Dancer", and others. Leon Errol's time with the Ziegfeld Follies
was as a stage director as well as a principal comedian. Errol and Bert
Williams (1872-1922) teamed up in four Follies to become the first notable
"white and black race" act in mainstream American show business. They wrote
the sketches themselves, and Errol portrayed the fumbling master and
Williams, the wily servant. It concludes with coverage of his production
"Hitchy Koo 1918", sponsored by Raymond Hitchcock, in which he introduced
Ray Dooley of vaudeville's "tumbling Dooleys" to Broadway.
The scrapbooks were donated to the American Vaudeville Museum by Dale Jones
and Valerie Speaks of Long Beach in 2004. The other materials are from a
variety of sources.
Biographical Note
Leon Errol (1876 or 1881?-1951) was born in Australia, and began performing
in college, circus, Shakespeare and light operas while still there. He
migrated to the U.S. by 1904 with his dance partner, Stella Chatelaine
(1886-1946). He performed cockney songs and eccentric dance in variety
saloons and partnered with Pete Gerald as "Gerald and Errol", featuring
German ("Dutch") or Irish dialect comedy, ragtime piano, burlesque boxing,
and a trained bulldog named Buck. They played alongside Gale Dauvrey and Alf
T. Lane in "A Wife's Folly", an Edward Shields Company comedy drama, ca.
1904, in Baker City, Oregon. The trio of Gerald, Errol and Dauvrey performed
in Walla Walla, Washington in 1904. Errol was stage manager for the Orpheum
Theatre in Portland, Oregon during the 1904-05 season. He also performed in
their productions, directing a group known as "Errol's Burlesquers" which
includes future Keystone comedian Roscoe Arbuckle. Errol performed in
numerous productions at LaVern's Park in Walla Walla, and at Shields' Park
in Portland during this time. He and Will Gross, as "Errol and Gross",
performed ragtime musicals. In 1906 Errol was traveling with Zinn's Travesty
Company, which performed in San Francisco in 1906 and was there when the
earthquake hit.
Leon Errol and Stella Chatelaine married in 1906. By 1911 they had arrived
in New York with their burlesque comedy show, The Lilies or The Jersey
Lillies. At Abe Erlanger's (Ziegfeld's financial backer) insistence, Leon
was soon engaged by Florenz Ziegfeld in his Broadway debut, "The Winsome
Widow", and then in the Ziegfeld Follies (1911-1915), in which Stella
Chatelaine also performed. He co-produced and performed in two shows of
"Hitchy Koo", the second in 1918. Errol was known for his dialect roles,
which he originally developed to camouflage his strong Australian accent, as
an eccentric dancer-physical comedian and for his comic gait as a "stage
inebriate" or other eccentric role. He is especially remembered for his
long-running series of short comic films for RKO Radio Pictures, beginning
in 1934 and continuing until his death in 1951.
This scrapbook was given by Belle Story to Eulalio Estrella, who had lived
with her in Winnetka, Illinois from 1968 to 1970, when she sold her house
there. He took the scrapbook to Brazil. Three decades later his stepson's
fiancée found it there and brought it back to the United States with
Estrella's permission; it was donated by her to the American Vaudeville
Museum collection around 2000.
Scope and Content
This series comprises a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, theater programs
and other printed matter, and one photograph, 1914-1920, documenting the
career of the soprano singer Belle Story (sometimes spelled Storey). There
is also correspondence with biographical information from Belle Story's
daughter, and programs (two in photocopy form) provided by her of Belle
Story's performances at the Hotel Biltmore and Carnegie Hall.
Biographical Note
Belle Story (née Grace Leard, born 1887) was the daughter of a Midwestern
Presbyterian minister who encouraged her musical training but not her stage
career. She studied voice with Mme. Marcella Sembrich, and traveled to
Europe around 1906 with a group to study music. She took her stage name from
the maiden name of her mother, which was Storey, but she later shortened
it.
By 1916 she had toured as a vaudeville singer for several years and
performed at theaters including the Hippodrome in New York and the Temple in
Boston and Detroit. Songs she was known for at the time included "Chin-Chin
Open Your Heart", from Montgomery & Stone's "Chin-Chin, Or A Modern
Aladdin" (1914); and "The Flower Garden Ball." She also performed in "Hip
Hip Hooray" at the Hippodrome beginning in June 1916. She was featured in a
cover article of B.F. Keith's Theatre News in May 1916. That year, at age
twenty-eight, she married a Wall Street broker from Chicago, Frederic E.
Andrews.
In 1917 she focused on a concert career, performing with pianist Leopold
Godowsky in a program with the Russian Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall,
and with Enrico Caruso at the Biltmore Musicales. A promotional booklet from
that time called her "America's greatest coloratura singer." Her voice was
described as sweet, flute-like, and bird-like. According to her daughter,
Belle was the first person to sing "Over There" in public, at a Liberty Bond
rally, before it was officially published in 1917. In 1918 she performed
again at the Hippodrome, as several different characters including
"Columbia" in a fifteen-act musical spectacle, "Everything" by R H.
Burnside.
Aside from her participation in a benefit concert in 1920, there is no later
information provided in the scrapbook about Belle Story's career. (An
undated loose clipping with no evident relationship to her describes a May
Day children's festival in Los Angeles, and mentions a young Martha Graham
as mistress of ceremonies.) She retired completely from performance upon
remarrying four years after the death of her first husband (ca. 1930), and
moved to Texas.
Related Material
The Hippodrome souvenir book for 1918, which includes the program for
"Everything" in which Belle Story performed several roles, is in the
Theatres series, subseries 3: Souvenir Programs, Box 20.
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Correspondence between Frank Cullen and Mrs. Walter
Watson, ca.
2000 July
2000
This series consists of photographs, printed matter, a newspaper clipping,
photocopies, and correspondence documenting the career of Arthur J.
McWatters and Grace Tyson. Arthur's surname is sometimes spelled McWaters.
There is a color copy of a 1902 document from Herrman the magician, giving
McWatters exclusive permission to perform one of his own illusions. A 1903
Saginaw program lists McWatters & Tyson Co. performing "Scenes in a
Dressing Room." Most of the photographs are of McWatters and Tyson, but also
include other performers. Some of these toured as part of McWatters &
Tyson & Co. There are also photographs of Bessie Burton (of Tyler &
Burton), Hal David, and Fred Nolan. One color snapshot depicts a poster of
McWatters & Tyson in company with John and Ethel Barrymore. A copy of a
family photograph from 1936 is included. The correspondence is from Evan S.
Williams, the son of McWatters' niece Helen Southgate Williams; he donated
the collection to the American Vaudeville Museum in 2004.
Biographical Note
Arthur McWatters (1871-1963) grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and returned there
throughout his life to hunt and fish in the area. He taught piano and organ
there as a young man, and advertised himself as a "tenor balladist" already
with several compositions to his name. In the mid-1890s he and three friends
went to New York to seek careers there. By around 1900 he and Grace Tyson
(d.1942), who became his wife, were appearing together as McWatters &
Tyson. They sang, danced, and did comic skits, with Arthur playing guitar
and banjo as well as piano. In 1913-14 they toured to South Africa and
London. At that time Grace was touted as "the actress whose eyes are insured
for £5000." They continued performing in an active tour schedule until at
least the mid-1920s. With Grace's death in 1942 at around age sixty, Arthur
retired from the stage and managed a chain of movie theaters around
Freeport, Long Island, where they had been living. He died at age
ninety-two.
This series comprises photographs, photocopies and other papers, and props
related to the career of Willie, West and McGinty, a comedy team sometimes
described as "The Comedy Builders." The props consist of a carpenter's apron
and two large corncob-style pipes. The photocopies include a step-by-step
record, attributed to Ted Corradine, of the Willie West and McGinty stage
routine and a playbill for Judy Garland and her International Variety Show
that includes Willie, West and McGinty, "A Billion Building Blunders." A
poster from this collection is stored separately with the Posters and
Oversize Items series, Box 23. .
Custodial History
These materials were [apparently] donated to the American Vaudeville Museum
by Bill West's granddaughter, Robin Doolan Geoffrion.
Biographical Note
Bill Briscoe (1886-1949) began his career as a comic acrobat in a team known
as Wild and West, which toured internationally. He and Frank Crossley (ca.
1882-ca. 1942), both from Lancashire, England, developed a carpenter
slapstick act as Willie West & McGinty (no comma) around 1900, while en
route to perform a gymnast act in Australia, discarding that form in favor
of acrobatic comedy. Willie West was played by Briscoe, who later went by
the name William, Willie, Bill, or Billy West, Sr.
A third unidentified member joined the original two in the role of Mr.
Willie while they were still in Lancashire, and the comma was added to the
act's name from that time on, though irregularly. This third role was played
by Rue Corré from around 1923, prior to their immigration to the U.S.; he
also was from Lancashire.
The trio moved to the U.S. under the auspices of Florenz Ziegfeld for the
Follies of 1923. They performed a skillfully choreographed clumsy carpenter
act in worn work clothing, with props including tools, boards, pails, and a
ladder. Their routine emphasized physical slapstick rather than verbal
exchange. The group continued to be successful through the Depression,
touring in London and elsewhere in Europe in the late 1930s, as well as in
Australia and South Africa. They appeared in several films (both short and
feature-length) in the 1930s, beginning with "Plastered" in 1930.
Willie, West & McGinty carried on with second-generation members into
the 1950s, and appeared on television, including The
Colgate Comedy Hour in 1951. Billy West, Jr. (1909-1971) joined
the act in 1929 at age 19, and replaced his father in later years. Frank
Crossley's son, Frank Crossley, Jr. (ca. 1910 - ca. 1997) replaced his
father as Ted McGinty. Ted Corradine (ca. 1896-1975), also from Lancashire,
became McGinty in the early 1940s. Donald Keith was playing the third role
by 1958.
Paul Gerard Smith's materials include correspondence between his grandson,
Paul Gerard Smith III, and Frank Cullen (American Vaudeville Museum), and
drafts of his biography by Paul Gerard Smith III and Frank Cullen. Also
included are a chronology, "Adventures in Show Business"; performer and
sketch indexes; and a list of credits compiled by Paul Gerard Smith. There
are photocopies of typewritten scripts with handwritten notations from the
early 1920s and 1930s. . An album of clippings includes his pre-vaudeville
years, beginning in 1918 when he enlisted in the Marines, and mentions his
service in Germany where he produced the Sixth Marine Revue for fellow
"doughboys" in 1919. Most of the clippings are from the 1920s and 1930s,
with the source not generally given; some playbills are included.
Biographical Note
Paul Gerard Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska on September 14, 1894 and died
April 4, 1968 in San Diego, California. He also lived in Chicago, where he
met and married Mary Alice Lundgren in 1919. Sometime after 1919 he moved to
New York City where he began writing for vaudeville acts, including the
Ziegfeld Follies (1924-1925). From 1920 to 1927 Paul Gerard Smith, Inc. also
produced and booked over 100 vaudeville acts. He moved to California around
1927, at the request of Buster Keaton, to work on adapting the film "The
General." Over the years he wrote or contributed to over 90 film scripts.
Most of his work was as a "script doctor" - he would fix scripts and not
necessarily receive credit for his work. He served in the Marines during
World War I and in the USO during World War II, and wrote various scripts
for plays and revues in the postwar years.
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Correspondence between Paul Gerard Smith III and Frank
Cullen, 2000-2001
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"Adventures in Show Business" - chronology, 1918- ca.
1950s
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Biographical drafts, ca.
2000 ca.
2000
Scope and Contents
Drafts by Paul Gerard Smith III, ca.
2000 (2 versions)
Draft by Paul Gerard Smith III and Frank Cullen, ca. 2000
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Indexes,
Scope and Contents
Vaudeville Performer Index
Vaudeville Sketch Index
Vaudeville Acts/Sketches Produced But Not in Files
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Papers, miscellaneous, 1921-1960
Scope and Contents
Friars Club program in form of menu, "Paul & Joe's Table
d'hote Frolic", cooked up by Friar Joe Laurie, Jr., and Friar
Paul Gerard Smith, Nov. 28th,
1926
Full-page ad by Paul Gerard Smith, Variety, 1921 (in 2 pieces)
Photocopies:
Full-page ads (2) by Paul Gerard Smith, Variety, 1921
"Your Broadway and Mine" column by Walter Winchell, text
contributed by Paul Gerard
Smith, New York Evening
Graphic, July 15,
1927
"Odyssey of a literary vagabond" by David Arlen, Script (?), ca. 1936-37, pp. 39-42 (photocopy)
"A thumbnose sketch - Paul G. Smith" by Joe Laurie, Jr.,
unidentified newspaper, Nov. 26,
1947
"Famed author recalls years with Broadway greats for Hemet group"
by Bea Gaines, The Hemet News (Calif.), ca. 1960
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Photographs of Paul Gerard Smith, (digital copies and
photocopies), ca.
1920s-1930s
This collection comprises four scrapbooks created by unidentified, unrelated
collectors, of magazine and newspaper clippings of actresses and actors as
well as playbills and program clippings, around the first decade of the
twentieth century.
Fan scrapbook 1 (1911-1912) comprises primarily clipped reviews of silent
films from Bison, Edison, Itala, Kalem, Lux, Nestor, Pathe, Powers, Selig,
Solax, Thanhouser, Yankee, and other film companies. There is a program for
a chamber concert at Faneuil Hall. There are some tipped-in reproduced
portraits, as well as an ad for portraits of "Photo-Player Favorites" from
Kalem Company, and one for "Some Notable Vitagraph Players." There is also a
handwritten shopping list, and a handwritten summary of theatre programs
from January to April 1912, including cast notes. It was apparently
assembled by a Boston area resident.
Fan scrapbook 2 (ca. 1897-1935, bulk ca. 1900-1907) consists primarily of
magazine clippings of stage stars, usually depicted in roles. The subjects
include Ethel Barrymore, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lulu Glaser, Ellen Goodrich,
Ada Rehan, Blanche Ring, Valeska Suratt ("The Original Gibson Girl"), Ellen
Terry, and Edith and Mabel Taliaferro. Some group stage portraits are
included. There are a few added loose magazine and newspaper clippings from
the 1930s.
Fan scrapbook 3 (ca. 1909-1911) is a hand-bound, uniformly presented set of
"Photographic Art Studies of Stage Favorites." They are reproductions on
glossy paper of photographic portraits, each with an ornate decorative line
surround. The portraits range from bust to full-length, generally with
elegant dress. There are some posed group stage scenes. Several of the
subjects are identified as being in vaudeville. The photographers are White,
Sarony, Otto Sarony Co., Frank C. Bangs, and Hall (all of New York); and
Jens R. Matzene, Melvin H. Sykes, and Moffett Studio (all of Chicago). There
are title pages from several issues of Smith's
Magazine, ranging from May 1909 to
January 1911, which apparently was the
source of all the pages included in this scrapbook. The issues indicated
are:
v.9 no.1 (Apr 1909), no.2 (May 1909)
v.10 no.5 (Feb 1910)
v.11 no.3 (Jun 1910)
v.12 no.1 (Oct 1910), no.4 (Jan 1911)
Fan scrapbook 4 (ca. 1905-1914) consists of clippings from magazines and
newspapers (predominantly portraits rather than text), as well as playbills
and program clippings. There are some loose clippings and playbills from
1907-1914. Performers documented in this scrapbook include aerialists such
as Charmion, the Sisters Macarte, and the Four Harveys; and stage actors
Dan Crimmons and Rosa Gore, George H. Primrose,
O'Brien and Havel , Belle Blanche, May Ward, Catherine Countiss, Eva Tanguay, Emma Francis, Eugenie Fougere, Una Clayton, Louise Le Baron, and Jane Oaker. Some performances recorded
here are "The Hurdy Gurdy Girl" (1907) featuring Mae Botti, "The Earl and the Girl",
"Wine, Woman and Song" featuring Bonita, "The Man of the Hour" with
Lillian Kemble, the
Clyde Fitch comedy "Girls" (
1908), and Christie
MacDonald in "Miss Hook of Holland" (1908) and several other
plays.
This scrapbook is housed in a ledger book on detached pages. Some of the
pages are lined, from a separate late-nineteenth-century accounting ledger;
their contents are from the first decade of the twentieth century. Although
most are numbered in pencil (apparently at a later stage), the original page
order is not evident. There are some loose clippings and playbills from ca.
1907-1914 as well, which include portraits of Fanny Stedman, Vera Curtis, Bertie Herron, and Burdella Patterson. There is
some indication that the collector lived in Boston and Maine. . The
scrapbook was donated to the American Vaudeville Museum by Linda Richards, a
Maine resident.
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Fan scrapbook 1, 1911-1912
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Fan scrapbook 2, (bulk ca. 1900-1907), ca.
1897-1935
This series consists of 16mm films in a variety of lengths. The films with
original packaging mostly intact are from Official Films, Inc. The known
dates range from ca.1930-1947; one, Charlie Chaplin's Hits of the Past, was
originally released in 1914 as The Property Man. The longest of them, Merry-Go-Round of 1938, is notable for the
inclusion of two vaudeville/revue routines: "Song of the Woodsman" performed
by Bert Lahr, and "River Stay 'Way from My Door" performed by Jimmy
Savo.
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3-1/2 inch reel,
Scope and Contents
Concert Canteen - Rubinoff (1945;
Music Hall Varieties, from Official Films, Inc., Ridgefield, N.J.;
production no. 20604)
7 inch reels, 1935
Scope and Contents
Charlie Chaplin, Hits of the Past (An
Official Films movie; title on film lead)
News Review of 1947 (Official Films
Inc., News Thrills; title on box)
A Present for Santa Claus (title on
film lead; lacks container)
The Rag Dog,
1935 (Official Films Inc., Merry-Toons
Cartoons; title on box)
Unidentified - Long - Frees on the
R... (written on film tail; An Official Films
movie)
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7 inch reels, ca.
1942 1930
Scope and Contents
Bismarck Sea Victory, ca. 1942 (title on
container)
This series includes audio cassettes, compact disks, zip drives, and 3-1/4
inch disks; contents include images, text, and sound. Some are commercially
produced works or copies thereof; some were created by donors of other
materials to this collection; and some are files created by the American
Vaudeville Museum. Printouts have been provided when feasible.
Bindlestiff - Vaudeville Times photos - BFC [Bernard Frank
Cullen],
70
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Bobby May (images and text; 2nd disk is duplicate
images),
70
4
Capt. Anson Graphics (Rosenberg),
70
5
Daniel Rosen Photos,
70
6
Early Theatrical Posters, 1840-1936
(A2ZCDS, 2003; 2,124 images),
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(Includes biographies of Vaudeville performers Edward Santoro
and Margaret Marlow, and their daughter "Baby" Victory Rose Santoro,
who married Frank Ramirez; the latter were Margaret's
parents),
70
8
Gildemeister, Vaudeville and Circus photos,
70
9
The Great Tomsini & Co. (images),
70
10
Julian Eltinge
Compilation Disk, from Mark
Berger (images),
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Larry Weeks (images),
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(Levent & Mickey O'Connor live shots, plus ship photos -
Sovereign of the Seas) - original in color,
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2
(New Daniel Rosen headshots / Mickey O'Connor) - original in
color,
71
3
New York Clipper photos (1858, 1878,
1898 issues),
71
4
(originally located with Thematic Subjects: Tap),
71
5
Trixie Really Was a Friganza! (text [WordPerfect] and
images),
71
6
Vaudeville at Sea - Alan Howard, Jay Johnson photos - some
originals in color,
(Content of these disks is in the Balasi Family
collection),
71
9
(Original poster is in Posters and Oversize Items, Box
23),
71
10
BPL Saloon (zip drive with images - Adobe Photoshop
files),
71
11
George Brown, speed
walker (3 disks of images),
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12
J.W. Kelly - Songster
cover; J.W. Kelly stage persona; Maggie Cline, old age; M. Cline - Throw Him Down,
McCloskey; Mike Kelly -
Slide Kelly Slide (images),
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13
Rooney family - Pat Rooney, clog dancing; Pat Rooney and
Marion Bent; Pat Rooney Sr. and Jr. (3 disks of images),
71
14
The Royal Rockets - text by Nick Retson (disk) and images (zip
drive),
This series contains wigs, beards and other assorted hair pieces and
dressings, wig blocks, numerous curling irons and cork for black-face
make-up, used at the Hippodrome Theatre in New York during the World War I
era.
This series consists of compilations, mostly of songs by women singers.
There are multiple singers on 18 blues or jazz LPs - many of them on the
Rosetta label. The number in parentheses is the number of LPs on which
each of the listed 160 singers performs. No number in parentheses means
the singer performs on only one compilation LP.
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Almost Like Being in Love – Women's Railroad
Blues ,
The Noel Coward Album, double
album, ca. 1965,
Columbia MG 30038
Noel Coward &
Gertrude
Lawrence, We Were
Dancing: songs from Tonight at 8:30 and Private Lives. Also: Gertrude Lawrence
with Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr. in Moonlight Is Silver; Monmouth Evergreen MES
7042.
Fanny Brice Sings the Songs She Made
Famous, Audio Fidelity Records AFKLP-707
John W. Bubbles Back on Broadway,
1980, Uptown Records UP 27.03
Bubbles, John W That Is. . .,
mid-1960s, Vee-Jay
Records VJ-1109
Al Jolson 1885-1950, Epitaph
Records/VJ International E-4008
The Best of Spike Jones (&
His City Slickers) RCA ANL-1035e
Ted Lewis, Me and My Shadow,
Olympic Records 7127
Helen Morgan Sings, reissue by
Audio Rarities 2330
Rare Originals by Fanny Brice
(side 1) and Helen Morgan (side
2) RCA Victor LPV-561
Club Richman (Harry Richman/Eddie
Cantor/Helen Kane), New Torrington Records 432
Blossom Seeley & Benny Fields, Mr.
& Mrs. Show Business, 10 inch LP made in 1952 by
Loew's/MGM-E92 to coincide with release of biopic Somebody Loves Me
Vaudeville Songs of the Great Ladies of
the Musical Stage, sung by Joan Morris (William
Bolcom/piano), 1976, Nonesuch Records H-71330
At Home Abroad - Ziegfeld Follies of
1911 , 1963-1977
Scope and Contents
At Home Abroad (1935), archival
reconstruction by Smithsonian, RCA DPM1-0491, lyrics by Howard
Dietz & music by Arthur Schwartz. Original cast: Beatrice Lillie,
Ethel Waters,
Eleanor Powell
and Reginald
Gardiner; recreations by Cicely Courtneidge,
Clifford
David, Nancy
Dussault and Karen Morrow
Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1928,
lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music by Jimmy McHugh (recorded 1932
with original cast members Adelaide Hall and Bill Robinson, and 1930s
recreations by Ethel
Waters, Cab
Calloway, Mills Brothers ,
Duke Ellington
& His Orchestra, Don
Redman & His Orchestra), reissued
1968, Columbia Records OL-6770
Julius Monk's Plaza Nine Revue: Dime a
Dozen with Susan
Browning, Jack
Fletcher, Gerry Matthews, Rex Robbins, Fredericka Weber,
Marie Louise
Wilson and pianists Carl Norman, William Roy and Robert Colston,
1963, Cadence Records CLP-25063
Ken Murray's Blackouts, reissued
1975 by Garabedian Mark 59 Records
#701
Gilbert & Sullivan
Selections: HMS Pinafore and The Mikado by The D'Oyly
Carte Opera Company, London Records SPC-21010
The Nervous Set, Original
Broadway revue cast, Columbia Records OL-5430
Jerry Herman's Parade, revue with
Dody Goodman
& Charles Nelson
Reilly, Kapp Records 7005
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 with
Eddie Cantor,
John Steel,
Van & Schenck and Bert Williams,
1977 reissue by Smithsonian
Institution, Columbia Records R-009 / P14272
Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical - The Kay
Thompson Reviews , 1975
Scope and Contents
Presenting the Golden Age of the
Hollywood Musical (reissue w/pop-up cover 1974) with
selections from Gold Diggers of 1933, Gold Diggers of 1935,
42nd Street, Dames and Footlight Parade, with George Raft, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, James Cagney and Wini Shaw, United Artists
Records UAG-2942 (2 copies)
Hooray for Hollywood: The Golden Age of
the Hollywood Musical (with booklet); Frances Langford,
Johnny "Scat"
Davis, Dick
Powell, Bebe
Daniels, Wini
Shaw, Judy
Canova, Lee
Dixon, Joan
Blondell, Rosalind Marquis, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers and
Vera Teasdale.
1975 reissue by United Artists
UA-LA361-H-0798
Ladies of Burlesque (compilation
of clips by Alice
Faye, Grace
Bradley, Glenda Farrell, Miriam Hopkins,
Ann Sothern,
Virginia
O'Brien, Marion
Martin, Lucille
Ball, Constance Moore, Ann Miller, Iris
Adrian, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe,
Nita Talbot,
Adele Jergens,
Shelley
Winters, Ann
Sheridan, Jan
Sterling, Kathryn Grayson, Jane Wyman, Rita Hayworth, Joanne Woodward &
Cara Williams.
Legends Records-1000/2
Stars of the Silver Screen,
1929-1930: John
Boles, Fanny
Brice, Maurice Chevalier, Bebe Daniels, Dolores Del Rio,
Duncan Sisters , George Jessel, Helen Kane, Charles King, Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald,
Everett
Marshall, Helen
Morgan, Gloria
Swanson, Sophie
Tucker and Lupe
Velez. RCA Victor LPV-538
Nostalgia Trip to the Stars, volume
1: Tallulah
Bankhead, Jack
Buchanan, George
Burns & Gracie Allen, Jackie Coogan, Bebe Daniels, Jeanette MacDonald,
Pola Negri,
Ramon Navarro
and Gloria
Swanson. Monmouth Evergreen MES-7030
Nostalgia Trip to the Stars, volume
2: Bebe
Daniels & Ben
Lyon, Gracie
Fields, Stanley Holloway, Elsa Lanchester,
Laurel & Hardy , Adolphe Menjou,
Anna Neagle,
Lilli Palmer,
Walter
Pidgeon, Harry
Richman and Sophie Tucker. Monmouth Evergreen
MES-7031
The Kay Thompson Reviews:
Bing Crosby,
Peter Lorre,
Jack Buchanan
and others. Ultimo KAYT 406A
Great Actors of the Past - Ralph
Richardson, Cyrano de Bergerac
, 1950-1977
Scope and Contents
Great Actors of the Past:
cylinder recordings by Edwin
Booth (1890), Joseph Jefferson
(1903), Sarah
Bernhardt (1910), Constant Coquelin
(1897?), Ellen Terry
(1911), Henry Irving
(1890), Beerbohm
Tree (?), Julia
Nelson & Fred
Terry (1903?), Alexander Moissi (?),
Cyril Maude (?),
Lewis Waller (?)
and Tomasso
Salvini (?); 1977, Decca
Argo SW-510
American National Theatre & Academy ,
ANTA Album of Stars, volume
2: Katherine
Cornell, Brian
Ahearn, Julie
Harris, Henry
Fonda, Marc
Connelly, Edith
Evans, Torin
Thatcher, Ivan
Sampson, Tallulah Bankhead, Kent Smith, Eugenia Rawls; 1950s, Decca DL 9009
Command Performance, Night of a Thousand
Stars: 28 June 1956. Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft,
Paul Scofield, Peter Ustinov, Lawrence Harvey, Jack Benny,
Yvonne Larvin, John Mills, Vivien Leigh, Bob Hope, Tyrone Power,
Laurence Olivier, Anna Massey, Sheila Sim, Noel Coward, Joan
Sims, Jean Kent, cie Gray, Brenda Bruce, Peggy Cummins, Beatrice
Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, Mabel Mercer and Thelma Ruby. (same
LP) Royal Variety Performance:
1952: Vera Lynn,
Jack Jackson,
Reg Dixon,
Gracie Fields,
Maurice
Chevalier, issued 1977 DRG
ArchiveDARC-1-1106
John Barrymore: Great Profile
Speaks, Richard III & movie role excerpts,
Shakepox J Bar 42
John Gielgud: Shakespeare's Ages of
Man, 1958-59, Columbia 91A-02055
John Gielgud: Shakespeare's Ages of Man,
part II: One Man in His Time, 1958-59, Columbia
91A-02057
John Gielgud &
Irene Worth,
Men and Women of Shakespeare,
1967?, RCA Victor
VDM-115
John Gielgud & Gina Bachauer, poetry
& music (Debussy & Ravel),
1964, Mercury SR-90391
Edith Evans: An 18th Century Comedy
Album, excerpts: Congreve's Way of the World,
Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem and Sheridan's The Rivals and
The School for Scandal, 1977, EMI/HMV
HLM-7108
Michael MacLiammoir: The Importance of
Being Oscar, Part II, 1961?, CBS Classics 61160
Art of Ruth Draper, volume 2: Church in
Italy & English House Party,
1954, Spoken Arts 798
Art of Ruth Draper, volume 5: Doctors
& Diets, The Actress, 1954,
Spoken Arts Records 805
Ralph Richardson: Cyrano de
Bergerac, with Anna
Massey, Peter
Wyngard, 3 LPs, 1965?, Caedmon/Theatre Recording Society
TRS-3068-S
Nonsense Verse of Lewis Carroll and Edward
Lear – Voices from the Hollywood Past , 1957-1983
Scope and Contents
Beatrice Lillie,
Cyril Ritchard
& Stanley
Holloway read Nonsense
Verse of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear,
1957, Caedmon Publishers Records
TC-1078
The World of Dorothy Parker, [Dorothy
Parker] Reads Her Short Stories, Verse and a Book
Review, 1960s, Verve V-15029
S. J. Perelman Reads (4 humorous
essays), 1962, Spoken Arts Records
705
An Evening with Quentin Crisp: The Naked
Civil Servant, 1979,
DRG-S2L-5188
Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart;
radio broadcasts 1938-1968, Garabedian Mark 56
#703
Movie Stars on Radio (4 LP set):
Bette Davis,
Spencer
Tracey, Rosalind
Russell, Henry
Fonda, Paulette Goddard, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Brennan,
Cary Grant,
Judy Garland,
Dick Powell,
Gene Kelly,
Marlene
Dietrich, John
Wayne, Randolph Scott, Dame May Whitty,
Edward G.
Robinson, Vincent Price, Susan Hayward and Charles Boyer. 1940-47,
issued 1983 by Radiola Records 4MR-1
Prairie Home Companion: Garrison Keillor,
The Family Radio, 1982, PHC
Records-606
Old Curiosity Shop, 1951? reissue, RCA Victor
LCT-1112 (dupe LP in Vaudeville Collection)
Supper Club Revue with Harry Ritz, Sophie Tucker, Skinnay
Innis & Orchestra, etc., 1950s, reissued
1981, American Entertainment,
AEI-1135
Voices from the Hollywood Past:
Basil Rathbone
(1958), Buster
Keaton (1960), Stanley Laurel (1959), Harold Lloyd (?),
Walt Disney
(1959) and Edward G.
Robinson (1964), issued 1975
by Delos Records DEL/F-25412
Folk Festival at Newport, 1959 – Southern
Journey 12: Honor the Lamb , 1959-1960
Scope and Contents
Folk Festival at Newport,
1959, Joan Baez & Bob Gibson, Barbara Dane, New Lost City
Ramblers , Odetta, Mike Seeger, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee,
Vanguard, VSD-2054
New Folks, volume 2, Phil Ochs, Eric Anderson, Lisa Kindred, Bob Jones,
1964, Vanguard VRS-9140
Alan Lomax Field Recordings:
Southern Journey: All Day Singing from
the Sacred Harp, 1959-1960, Prestige Int'l-25007
Southern Journey 11: Southern White
Spirituals, 1959-1960, Prestige International-25011
Southern Journey 12: Honor the
Lamb, 1959-1960, Prestige International-25012
Bunny Berrigan: I Can't Get
Started, 1937-39 on Camden & RCA, reissued
1978 by Pickwick Quintessence
QJ-25081
Scrapper
Blackwell, Mr. Scrapper's
Blues, 1961, Bluesville
1047
Eubie Blake, Rags to Classics,
1971, Eubie Blake Music label,
EBM-2
Wilbur de Paris
& His New Orleans Jazz, Marchin' and
Swingin', 1952, Atlantic
1233
Baby Dodds Trio , Jazz a la Creole, 1946 &
1951, Circle Records, with James P. Johnson,
Albert
Nicholas, Pops
Foster, Don
Ewell & Danny Barker; reissued by George Buck as
GHB-50
K.C. Douglas Blues, late 1950s/early 1960s,
Prestige/Bluesville-1023
Duke Ellington at the Cotton
Club, 1937-38, with Ivie Anderson, Swedish reissue: TAX
m-8001
The Early Duke Ellington, with
Jimmy Dorsey
& Una Mae
Carlisle, reissued by Everest FS-221
Gershwin by [George] Gershwin,
radio broadcasts 1931-35, 2 LPs, reissued
1973, Mark 56-641
Edmund Hall Quintets , Celestial Express,
1941 & 1944,
Blue Note B-6505, autographed by Edmund Hall & Winnie Hall (his
wife)
W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues, St Louis
Blues, sings his compositions and talks, recorded in
the early 1950s;
reissued 1975 by Garabedian Mark 56 as
#684
box
106
Hines – Kenton, 1926-1982
Scope and Contents
Earl Hines, Paris Sessions, piano
solos, 1965, reissued in
1981 by Inner City Records
IC-1142
Earl Hines in New Orleans,
1977, solo piano, Chiaroscuro Records
CR-200
Earl Hines Quintessential
Continued, mid-1970s, solo piano, Chiaroscuro CR-120
[Earl] Hines Comes in Handy,
piano solos of W.C.
Handy's music, 1973,
Audiophile AP-112
[Earl] Hines Does Hoagy
[Carmichael], piano solos,
1974, reissue 1982
Audiophile AP-113
Hines: My Tribute to Louis
[Armstrong], piano solos of
1971 issued 1973,
Audiophile-AP-111
Shakey Jake: Mouth Harp Blues
with combo, early
1960s?, Prestige/Bluesville 1027
Best of Jelly Roll Morton (combos
with Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet, Wilbur de Paris,
Bubber Miley,
etc.) 1926-40, reissued
1980, RCA/Deutsche CL-43291
Gerry Mulligan,
Chet Baker (with
combo), Carnegie Hall Concert, volume
One, 1964, CTI-6054
box
107
Pierce – Yancy, 1929-1980
Scope and Contents
Billie & De De Pierce, New Orleans,
Legends Live, late
1950s?, Jazzology JCE-25
Billie & De De Pierce, Blues in the
Classic Tradition, 1961,
Riverside Record RLP-370
Billie & De De Pierce, Blues &
Tonks from the Delta, 1961,
Riverside Record RLP-394
Oscar Peterson,
Digital at Montreux,
1979-80, issued
1980 Pablo Records d2308224
Oscar Peterson & Stephane
Grapelli, 2 LPs, 1973, Prestige
P-24041
Jess Stacy, Blues Notion,
1944, Jazz Piano Heritage Series,
volume 40, Jazzology JCE-90
Return of Roosevelt Sykes,
piano/vocals with combo, 1960, Prestige
Bluesville-1006
The Blues of Arbee Stidham: Tired of
Wanderin', early
1960s, Prestige Bluesville 1021
Tampa Red, Don't
Jive Me, vocals, guitar & kazoo, early 1960s, Prestige
Bluesville 1043
Art Tatum Masterpieces, volume 2
(1934 & 1937) and James P. Johnson
plays Fats Waller (1944 & 1946), 2 LPs, Decca
Label/MCA2-4112
The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, volume
11, recorded 1953-55, reissued 1981,
Pablo 2310864
Art Tatum Trio ( Tiny Grimes, Slam Stewart),
1944, reissued 1983 Audiophile Records
AP-88
Golden Horn of Jack Teagarden
with the bands of Louis
Armstrong, Eddie
Condon, Red
Nichols, Adrian Rollini and Eddie Lang &
Joe Venuti's All Stars , 1929-1953, reissued
MCA-227
Jack Teagarden,
Think Well of Me, music of
Willard
Robison, 1962, Verve Records
V-8465
Henry Townsend,
Tired of Being Mistreated,
vocal/guitar/piano, 1961, Prestige
Bluesville-1041
Henry Townsend,
Mule,
1980, Nighthawk Records 201
Mercy Dee Walton
(vocal & piano), Pity and a
Shame, 1961, Prestige
Bluesville 1039
Mary Lou
Williams (in trio), My
Momma Pinned a Rose on Me,
1977, Pablo Records-2310-819
Mary Lou Williams Trio , Free Spirits,
1976, Inner City Records-2043
Mary Lou
Williams
First Lady of the Piano, recorded
1953, reissued
1979, Inner City IC-7006
Teddy Wilson, Teddy's Choice,
1975, issued 1981
by Jazzology Piano Heritage, volume 36, JCE-36
Teddy Wilson On Tour with His
Trio, 1961, Charlie Parker
Records PLP-809
Mama Yancey & Little Brother
Montgomery: South Side Blues,
1961, Riverside Chicago Living Legends
Series OBC-508
Collectors' History of Classic Jazz – Jazz at
Preservation Hall, Volume 3 , 1950s-1976
Scope and Contents
Collectors' History of Classic
Jazz (tribal, gospel, ragtime, blues, stride),
Murray Hill 927942
New Orleans Jazz: The Flowering,
1950s, bands/combos
led by Kid Clayton,
Punch Miller,
Billie &
De De Pierce,
Emile Barnes
& Peter Bocage,
Tony Parenti,
Eureka Brass Band with George Lewis, Folkways
Records FA-2465
Heliotrope Bouquet Piano Rags,
played by William
Bolcom, 1971, Nonesuch
H-71257
Jazz Piano, Willie 'The Lion'
Smith, Charles
Bell, Earl
Hines, Billy
Taylor, Mary Lou Williams, 1965,
RCA Masters PL-42`07
Jazz Giants: The Piano Players,
Mary Lou
Williams, Beryl
Booker, Erroll
Garner, Johnny Guarnieri, 1955,
Trip Jazz TLP-5504
Keyboard Kings: Errol Garner/Art
Tatum/Oscar Peterson, originally recorded by RCA,
Camden, reissued 1976 by Pickwick/Camden
ACL-7015
Piano Rags by Scott Joplin played
by Joshua Rifkin,
volume 1, 1970, Nonesuch H-71248
Piano Rags by Scott Joplin played
by Joshua Rifkin,
volume 2, 1972, Nonesuch H-71264
Preservation Hall, volume 1,
Eureka Brass Band / Peter Humphrey,
1965?, Atlantic
1408
Preservation Hall, volume 2, Jim
Robinson's New Orleans Band (side 1) and Billie & De De
Pierce (side 2), 1965?,
Atlantic Records 1409
Jazz at Preservation Hall, volume
3, Paul
Barbarin & His Jazz Band (side 1) and
Punch Miller's Bunch with George Lewis (side 2),
1965?, Atlantic
Records 1410
box
108
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