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CAFE SOCIETY and LADIES' BETTER DRESSESLittlefield Ballet publicity photos, c.1938

Started by rg , Jul 24 2011 07:57 AM

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#1 rg

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Posted 24 July 2011 - 07:57 AM

scan of a publicity photo of CAFE SOCIETY with Joseph Johnson as The Champ and Dorothy Swain as The Chorine.
NYPL dance cat. entry:
Café society: Chor: Catherine Littlefield; mus: Ferde Grofé; cos: Carl Schaffer. First perf: Chicago, Civic Opera House, Nov 13, 1938.

and of LADIES' BETTER DRESSES, also c. 1938, with only the male dancer identified as handwritten on the back of the photo: Carl Cleighton as The Nigth Watchman (the women are simply noted as: "& 2 of the models")
NYPL dance cat. entry:
Ladies' better dresses: Chor: Catherine Littlefield; mus: Kingsley. First perf: Philadelphia, 1938; Philadelphia Ballet Company.

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Posted 24 July 2011 - 12:19 PM

I'm a lazy girl or I'd be looking this up myself -- has anyone done much work with Maurice Seymour's photos?
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