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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 The Birthday of the Infantafor 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 Frankie and Johnny(choreographed with Stone), Poe's poem The Bells,and the story of a revivalist preacher Billy Sunday.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, Page by Pageand Class.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 Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Ballet (later called Ruth Page's International Ballet). The correspondence is chiefly between Thomas Hart Fisher, representing Miss Page 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 Kirsten Simone and Henning Kronstam), and tour publicity. Other items include sections of pressbooks, articles by Page, and copies of public testimonial to Ruth Page's cultural accomplishments. less

The vast collection of personal and professional manuscript materials of Ruth Page, American dancer, choreographer, company director, teacher, and writer, is part of an even larger continuing gift of Ruth Page (begun in 1969), to the Dance Collection, Performing Arts Research Center, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. In addition to costume and set designs, films, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, posters, music scores, and programs, there are approximately 42,000 individual manuscript items in the collection, arranged in 2,793 folders and 13 notebooks. This guide to the manuscript materials leads off with a “Chronology” of Ruth Page's life through 1971 followed by a narrative “Summary” of her career until 1970 as reflected in the collection; a “Chronology of Dances” choreographed by Ruth Page; a “Series Description” which explains the organization of the collection; a “Folder List” which catalogues chronologically the folders according to Correspondence (C), Manuscripts (M), Notebooks (N), Publicity Material (P), and Business Records (R); and an index of authors and correspondents. The chronological Summary (with its references keyed by folder number) serves as a guide to material on individual dances, performers, and subjects. less