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Lollipop : vaudeville turns with a Fanchon and Marco dancer / Reva Howitt Clar ; edited by Mimi Melnick.
Van Pelt Library GV1785.C58 A3 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clar, Reva Howitt.
- Series:
- Studies and documentation in the history of popular entertainment ; no. 4.
- Studies and documentation in the history of popular entertainment ; no. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clar, Reva Howitt.
- Dancers--United States--Biography.
- Dancers.
- Vaudeville.
- History.
- United States.
- Vaudeville--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Take a journey back in time to an era when movie theatres were movie houses, jazz was king, and vaudeville was one of the premiere forms of entertainment. Lollipop is the late Reva Howitt Clar's memoirs of her colorful career with the legendary brother and sister producing team of Fanchon and Marco and the first inside account to give detailed insight into the workings of this famous pair.
- Contents:
- 1 Debut 1
- 2 Amateur Time 4
- 3 Transition 11
- 4 Professional Life 15
- 5 Living Conditions 22
- 6 Working Conditions 25
- 7 Recollections 30
- 8 The Record Begins 35
- 9 Twenty-Four Shootouts 42
- 10 The Warfield Girls 47
- 11 The "San Francisco Beauties Idea" 52
- 12 Southern California 55
- 13 The "Yachting Idea" 60
- 14 A San Francisco Welcome 66
- 15 The "Book Idea" 72
- 16 Northward Again 76
- 17 And Southward Again 81
- 18 The "Polar Idea" 86
- 19 Goodbye, Los Angeles 92
- 20 Marquard's Cafe 97
- 21 San Francisco in 1928 101
- 22 Change Partners 108
- 23 The Work Continues 117
- 24 The Boulevard Theatre 121
- 25 The "River Idea" 127
- 26 Flowing Northward 135
- 27 The "Gobs of Joy Idea" 143
- 28 Sailing Northward 150
- 29 New Territory 157
- 30 New York 163
- 31 The Palace! 166
- 32 Keith-Orpheum Time 170
- 33 Letters 175
- 34 Broadway Again 179
- 35 Washington, D.C. 183
- 36 Philadelphia 186
- 37 Loew's Southern Time 193
- 38 Atlanta and Memphis 197
- 39 New Orleans 203
- 40 Houston and Onward 208
- 41 Toronto, Montreal, and Boston 213
- 42 Fox-Poli Time 217
- 43 New York and "Gobs" End 221
- 44 Changes 226
- 45 The Pantages Theatre 230
- 46 More Pantages 236
- 47 Goodbye Dancing 242
- 48 The Booking Office 249
- 49 More Changes 256
- 50 Layoff 260
- 51 The Dancing School 262
- 52 Engagement 268
- 53 Marriage 273
- 54 One Last Bow 277.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 081084186X
- OCLC:
- 49320475
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