Found 20 collections related to Vaudeville

Harry Stone, also known as Israel Breakstone (born circa 1900), was an entertainer who worked on the vaudeville circuit in New York and Pennsylvania for about 15 years in the 1920s and 1930s. The Harry Stone papers, dating from 1915 to 1977, hold source material for his comedic skits, photographs, scrapbooks, and an address book. less

Leona Stephens (born circa 1885) and her husband Len D. Hollister (1884-1936) were writers and actors who worked on the Broadway stage and in vaudeville in the early 20th century. Following Hollister's death, Stephens continued performing and publishing songs through the 1940s. The Leona Stephens papers date from 1878 to 1952 and contain photographs, programs, song lyrics, and sheet music that document the entirety of Stephens's career, as well as her vaudeville act with Hollister. In addition, the collection includes an 1878 program from Edwin Booth's performance in Richelieu at the Pittsburgh Opera House. less

Dorothy Morey and Harry Eaton were variety performers who had a singing, talking, and dancing act that they performed in vaudeville theaters across the United States. The pair, who were married, performed as Murray and Fayne (or Fane) in the 1920s and 1930s, and began performing as Morey and Eaton in the 1940s. The Morey and Eaton papers contain scripts, scores, notes, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs dating from 1926 to 1953. The collection contains scripts, notes, and scenarios for sketches written by Eaton and Morey; several sketches by Jack "Snooze" Kinneard; and sketches by unidentified authors. There are two proposals for television game shows, written by Eaton, dating to the early 1950s. Scores include songs by Eaton such as "I Wish I Could Afford to Live the Life I'm Livin'"; songs by Eaton and Anne Barry including "You Helped Me to Forget" and "How Can I Ever Tell Him"; "I Want to Be an Iceman" by Dorothy Murray; and songs by Anita La Pierre. Clippings contain reviews and advertisements for Morey and Eaton from the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes a small amount of correspondence and ephemera, mostly pertaining to Eaton, including contracts and letters regarding bookings. There is a pedigree for one of Morey and Eaton's pet Chihuahuas; their Chihuahuas sometimes appeared in their act. The collection also contains three promotional photographs and a printing plate depicting Morey and Eaton. less

Collection consists of correspondence, clippings, awards, programs and photographs that span Goldberg's career. The correspondence is mostly incoming, on both personal and professional matters, primarily letters of thanks, bulk dated 1950-1956. Correspondents include Oscar and Dorothy Hammerstein, Leland Hayward and Louis R. Lurie. Programs are for the Plantation Revue, a vaudeville act, which he managed in 1923 and photographs include a shot of Goldberg with Moscow stagehands in 1926. The collection, though small, gives some sense of the range and variety of Goldberg's career. less

The Kayton Sisters, Jean, Lillian (sometimes known as Babe), and occasionally a third sister, Cecyl, were dancers of the vaudeville era. They performed across the United States in the 1920s and then set up their own dancing school in the 1930s. The Kayton Sisters Studios, in Queens and the Bronx, continued into the 1950s. Collection consists of two scrapbooks of clippings, programs and a few photographs reflecting the careers of the Kayton sisters. There are also some loose programs for the annual revues at their studio and some unidentified photographs of their students that they received as gifts. less

Happy Fanny Fields (born Fanny Furman, circa 1881-1961) was an American actress, dancer, and comedian who found great success in British pantomime theater in the first decade of the twentieth century. The collection documents Fields's professional life in New York and Europe, with an emphasis on her career in Britain. The bulk of the materials are scrapbooks, writings, and photographs, with contracts, letters, programs, and posters also included. less

The Carroll McComas papers span the years 1914-1962 and document aspects of her life and career from the early days of vaudeville until her death in 1962. Included is correspondence about her ANTA guest artist appearance in THE GLASS MENAGERIE. The bulk of the collection however, is photographs that represent many productions in which McComas appeared including THE JOLLY ROGER, NIGHT HAWK and the motion picture JAMAICA RUN. less

Aileen Stanley was a popular singer and vaudeville performer active from the 1900s through the 1930s. The Grayce Burian collection of Aileen Stanley materials (1898-1983) was assembled by Burian in the preparation of a biography of Stanley. The collection includes correspondence, research notes, scrapbooks, photographs, promotional materials, and other memorabilia from Stanley's career. less

Frances De Grossart and Muriel Window were vaudeville singers who toured together as Muriel and Frances from 1912 to 1914. De Grossart retired from vaudeville after marrying George Ebey, manager of the Fulton Playhouse in Oakland, California. The Frances De Grossart and Muriel Window photographs, clippings, and ephemera include publicity photographs for De Grossart and Window, together and alone; a scrapbook documenting Window's performance career from 1906 to 1914 (box 3, folder 4); and a large number of photographs of De Grossart and her family. The De Grossart family photographs date from the 1870s to the 1950s; the bulk were taken between the 1910s and early 1930s in Oakland and Los Angeles. There is also a small number of letters, postcards, and loose clippings related to De Grossart's family less

Lola Menzeli and her husband Senia Solomonoff were ballet dancers and teachers. The Lola Menzeli and Senia Solomonoff papers (1873-1954, bulk 1910s-1940) contain scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting their careers. The collection includes scrapbooks concerning Menzeli's career on the vaudeville circuit in the 1910s; Menzeli and Solomonoff's world tour in the 1920s; and the Festival of States in St. Petersburg, Florida, which Solomonoff directed from 1933 to 1935. The collection also contains materials related to Menzeli's patented invention of heeled toe shoes, and a scrapbook about Menzeli's teacher, Elizabetta Menzeli. less

Ruben and Corinne Garcia, also known as Tito Valdez and Corinne, were married vaudeville nightclub dancers who performed together across the United States, as well as in London and Paris. The collection contains photographs, scrapbook pages, newspaper clippers, and contracts. less

The Max Morath New York Clipper collection contains four volumes of New York Clipper newspaper reviews of vaudeville acts between 1907 and 1919 and an alphabetical index of performers and acts that correspond with the reviews. The collection was compiled by Morath in 1966 while researching vaudeville for a television variety show that was never produced. less