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New York City Vaudeville

By anthony , Slide

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN
9781439633915, 1439633916
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
27 MB (28761929 bytes)
Series
Images of America; Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts
Pages
(128 pages) : chiefly illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Entertainers--New York (State)--New York;Vaudevill

Description

New York City Vaudeville provides a unique pictorial record of America's preeminent entertainment medium in the late 1800s through the early 1930s. New York's Palace Theatre served as the flagship for vaudeville, on which stage every vaudevillian aspired to perform. New York City Vaudeville features photographs of some of the greatest names from the Palace Theatre, including Jack Benny, George Burnsand Gracie Allen, Anna Held, the Marx Brothers, and Eva Tanguay, as well as legendary African American performers such as Bill Robinson, Ethel Waters, and Bert Williams. Through the photographs and the capsule biographies, the reader is transported back to a time when vaudeville was the people's entertainment, with a new bill of fare each week and an ever-changing number of performers with ever-changing styles of presentation.

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