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New York City Vaudeville

出版	Arcadia Publishing, 2006
主題	History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)History / United States / GeneralPerforming Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
ISBN	07385456279780738545622
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YNc9VRnnP_MC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋New York City Vaudeville provides a unique pictorial record of Americas preeminent entertainment medium in the late 1800s through the early 1930s. New Yorks 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 peoples entertainment, with a new bill of fare each week and an ever-changing number of performers with ever-changing styles of presentation. New York City Vaudeville provides a unique pictorial record of Americas preeminent entertainment medium in the late 1800s through the early 1930s. New Yorks 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 peoples entertainment, with a new bill of fare each week and an ever-changing number of performers with ever-changing styles of presentation.