New York City Vaudeville (NY) (Images of America) |  | Author: Anthony Slide
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 590733
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0738545627
Dewey Decimal Number: 974
EAN: 9780738545622
ASIN: 0738545627
Publication Date: July 26, 2006
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Product 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 Burns
and 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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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent book with great photos! July 3, 2007
Lin (Puget Sound)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I own several of these paperback books (called: IMAGES OF AMERICA). These compact books never disappoint me. This company is still producing these wonderful books today ,and every few months, the company adds to the various IMAGES OF AMERICA themes.
I bought this book because I wanted a "general" photo book showing photos of the most well-known of the Vaudeville performers, especially those from New york.
This book did not disappoint. Under each photo, there is also a brief description of the actor-performer.
(NOTE: There are no side-show performers in this book. This book is mostly about singers and actors/actresses from the early days of Vaudeville in NEW YORK).
Each chapter also gives a brief description of the Era of Vaudeville. Very interesting information.
The price for these small IMAGES OF AMERICA paperbacks are always low ($) and affordable. For me, they are worthwhile to own in any Library.
New York Vaudeville July 15, 2007
Barry Goodkin (Phoenix, AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book includes the bios of many of the vaudeville headliners. It is well written and concise.
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