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{"value"=>"*MGZMC-Res. 12", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19637", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1956-1965", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1956/1965"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Ruth Page papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Ruth Page papers, *MGZMC-Res. 12. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Page, Ruth, 1899-1991", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Ruth Page, American dancer, choreographer, and director of ballet companies, was born in 1899, the daughter of a physician in Indiana. Her dance studies began with local teachers in Indianapolis. Like many a young girl, she was inspired by seeing Anna Pavlova perform, and actually did perform with the legendary dancer's troupe during a tour to South America in 1918. Her training continued in Chicago with Adolph Bolm who created <span class=\"title\">The Birthday of the Infanta</span>for her, dancing the role with Bolm's Ballet Intime at the London Coliseum in 1920. Her varied performing career included being premiere danseuse with Chicago Allied Arts from 1924-1927, Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, a brief time with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, touring the Orient and Moscow in the late 1920's, solo tours throughout the United States, touring with Harald Kreutzberg 1932-1933, and premiere danseuse with the Chicago Grand Opera Company from 1934-1937. Chicago was her base, having married the successful lawyer Thomas Hart Fisher, who also managed her dance career affairs. With her partner Bentley Stone, she formed Page-Stone Ballet Company in Chicago in 1938. Page was one of the first to tackle American themes in her dances including the ballad of <span class=\"title\">Frankie and Johnny</span>(choreographed with Stone), Poe's poem <span class=\"title\">The Bells,</span>and the story of a revivalist preacher <span class=\"title\">Billy Sunday.</span>She worked with the Chicago Lyric Opera and toured a Chicago Opera Ballet company, introducing many great dancers to the American public, including Rudolf Nureyev's New York City debut in March, 1962. With the resources of a successful husband, she commissioned scores from Aaron Copland, Darius Milahud and others, designs from Isamu Noguchi, Pavel Tchelitchev, and André Delfau, whom she married in 1983, many years after the death of Thomas Fisher. She wrote two books, <span class=\"title\">Page by Page</span>and <span class=\"title\">Class.</span>The recipient of the Dance Magazine Award (1990), the Illinois Gubernatorial Award (1985) and several honorary degrees, she died in Chicago April 7, 1991.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>A collection of items, mostly correspondence, relating to publicity and public relations for tours of <span class=\"persname\">Ruth Page's</span> Chicago Opera Ballet (later called <span class=\"persname\">Ruth Page's</span> International Ballet). The correspondence is chiefly between <span class=\"persname\">Thomas Hart Fisher</span>, representing <span class=\"persname\">Miss Page</span> and the Chicago Opera Ballet, and representatives of Columbia Artists Management, Inc. Chief subjects include the compilation of press and souvenir books, the engagement of guest artists (including <span class=\"persname\">Kirsten Simone</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Henning Kronstam</span>), and tour publicity. Other items include sections of pressbooks, articles by <span class=\"persname\">Page</span>, and copies of public testimonial to <span class=\"persname\">Ruth Page's</span> cultural accomplishments.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>I. Correspondence</li> <li>II. Miscellany</li></ul>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift.</p>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1956
- date_inclusive_end
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1965
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>A collection of items, mostly correspondence, relating to publicity and public relations for tours of Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Ballet (later Ruth Page's International Ballet) in the mid-fifties and early sixties. The correspondence is chiefly between Thomas Hart Fisher, representing Miss Page and the Chicago Opera Ballet, and representatives of Columbia Artists Management, Inc. The compilation of press and souvenir books, the engagement of guest artists (including Kirsten Simone and Henning Kronstam), and publicity for tours are the chief subjects of the correspondence</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Other items include sections of pressbooks, articles by Ruth Page, and copies of public testimonials to Ruth Page's cultural accomplishments</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
- keydate
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1956
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{"value"=>"English"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Ruth Page, American dancer, choreographer, and director of ballet companies, was born in 1899, the daughter of a physician in Indiana. Her dance studies began with local teachers in Indianapolis. Like many a young girl, she was inspired by seeing Anna Pavlova perform, and actually did perform with the legendary dancer's troupe during a tour to South America in 1918. Her training continued in Chicago with Adolph Bolm who created <span class=\"title\">The Birthday of the Infanta</span>for her, dancing the role with Bolm's Ballet Intime at the London Coliseum in 1920. Her varied performing career included being premiere danseuse with Chicago Allied Arts from 1924-1927, Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, a brief time with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, touring the Orient and Moscow in the late 1920's, solo tours throughout the United States, touring with Harald Kreutzberg 1932-1933, and premiere danseuse with the Chicago Grand Opera Company from 1934-1937. Chicago was her base, having married the successful lawyer Thomas Hart Fisher, who also managed her dance career affairs. With her partner Bentley Stone, she formed Page-Stone Ballet Company in Chicago in 1938. Page was one of the first to tackle American themes in her dances including the ballad of <span class=\"title\">Frankie and Johnny</span>(choreographed with Stone), Poe's poem <span class=\"title\">The Bells,</span>and the story of a revivalist preacher <span class=\"title\">Billy Sunday.</span>She worked with the Chicago Lyric Opera and toured a Chicago Opera Ballet company, introducing many great dancers to the American public, including Rudolf Nureyev's New York City debut in March, 1962. With the resources of a successful husband, she commissioned scores from Aaron Copland, Darius Milahud and others, designs from Isamu Noguchi, Pavel Tchelitchev, and André Delfau, whom she married in 1983, many years after the death of Thomas Fisher. She wrote two books, <span class=\"title\">Page by Page</span>and <span class=\"title\">Class.</span>The recipient of the Dance Magazine Award (1990), the Illinois Gubernatorial Award (1985) and several honorary degrees, she died in Chicago April 7, 1991. A collection of items, mostly correspondence, relating to publicity and public relations for tours of <span class=\"persname\">Ruth Page's</span> Chicago Opera Ballet (later called <span class=\"persname\">Ruth Page's</span> International Ballet). The correspondence is chiefly between <span class=\"persname\">Thomas Hart Fisher</span>, representing <span class=\"persname\">Miss Page</span> and the Chicago Opera Ballet, and representatives of Columbia Artists Management, Inc. Chief subjects include the compilation of press and souvenir books, the engagement of guest artists (including <span class=\"persname\">Kirsten Simone</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Henning Kronstam</span>), and tour publicity. Other items include sections of pressbooks, articles by <span class=\"persname\">Page</span>, and copies of public testimonial to <span class=\"persname\">Ruth Page's</span> cultural accomplishments.", "generated"=>true}
- extent_statement
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70 folders ca. 70 items
- date_start
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1956
- date_end
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1965