Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. DHCA.

Description

1. 83 p. : ill.; 31 cm.

Summary

1. Newspaper clippings and press reviews, January 1913-April 1915, documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French. Their repertory of performances on the Hammerstein vaudeville circuit included Rouge et noir, The Vampire, Dance of the temptress, and The dance of fortune, and an Apache dance that led to their arrest on charges of indecency.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Barbara Crawford, 1994.
2. National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.

Series statement

1. Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923

Subject

1. Eis, Alice, approximately 1890-1956
2. French, Bert, approximately 1884-1924
3. Dancers -- Scrapbooks
4. Vaudeville
5. Dancing -- United States -- 1911-1920
6. Large format clippings

Call number

1. *MGZRS 94-2662

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.

Author

1. Eis, Alice, approximately 1890-1956.

Title

1. [Scrapbook]

Imprint

1. [1913-15]

Series

1. Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923

Additional formats

1. Also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.

Local note

1. Lacking pages 37-42.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Indexed term

1. Large format clippings

Local subject

1. Variety dancing -- United States.
2. Apache dancers.

Added author

1. DHCA.

Research call number

1. *MGZRS 94-2662