Research Catalog

Title

Photographic scrapbooks

Author

Page, Ruth, 1899-1991.

Publication

1945-54.

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Details

Additional Authors

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.

Description

3 albums of photographs; 38-42 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Ruth Page Fisher.

Subjects

• Opera ballet > Lakmé
• Wright, Belinda, 1929-
• Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013
• Dances with words and music (Choreographic work : Page)
• Frankie and Johnny (Choreographic work : Page and Stone, B)
• Ballets des Champs-Elysées
• Stone, Bentley
• Love song (Choreographic work : Page)
• Briansky, Oleg
• Talin, Nikita
• Arova, Sonia
• Lambrinos, Vassili
• Susanna and the barber (Choreographic work : Page)
• Opera ballet > Carmen
• Bells (Choreographic work : Page)
• Rosay, Bettina
• Scrapbooks
• Boris, Ruthanna
• Musical comedies > Music in my heart
• Fisher, Thomas Hart
• Merry widow (Choreographic work : Page)
• London's Festival Ballet
• Triumph of chastity (Choreographic work : Page)
• Chicago Opera Ballet
• Camryn, Walter
• Amor brujo (Choreographic work : Page)
• Gilpin, John, 1930-
• Dancers > Scrapbooks
• Gold standard (Choreographic work : Page)
• Bowman, Patricia

Contents

• Vol. 1 (1949-51) includes photos of dancers Ruth Page, Bentley Stone, and Walter Camryn in Harlequinade, Beauty and the beast, Reunion, Liebestod, and Love song; formal portraits of Ruth Page; photos of Page in costume for sections from Dances with words and music, Tropic, Gold standard, Expanding universe, and The bells; and photos of Impromptu au bois, danced by Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées (May 1951).
• Vol. 2 (1951-54) includes photos of Ruth Page, Bentley Stone, Sonia Arova, Barbara Steele, Oleg Briansky, and Belinda Wright in Susanna and the barber, Salome (Retribution), Revenge (1951), Vilia (The merry widow) for the London Festival Ballet (1953), Triumph of chastity, and El amor brujo.
• Vol. 3 (1945-53) includes formal and informal portraits and snapshots of dancer Ruth Page in performance and private life, 1945-1953. Includes photos and snapshots of Miss Page with Bentley Stone (in Harlequinade) and Walter Camryn and Stone (in Reunion) at Jacob's Pillow, August 1949; snapshots of Page, Frederic Franklin, Nikita Talin, and Ruthanna Boris at Hubbard Woods, Illinois (1946); performance photos of The bells; photos and snapshots of Miss Page in Lament for the death of a Spanish bullfighter, Tropic, selections from Dances with words and music, Frankie and Johnny (1945), and formal portraits. Also includes photos of Isamu Noguchi's sketches of Ruth Page in Expanding universe (1934); informal snapshots of Thomas Hart Fisher, Bettina Rosay, Patricia Bowman, Walter Camryn, and Bentley Stone; snapshots of Ruth Page in performances of Lakmé and Carmen with the Chicago Opera; photos of Page and Stone in the Beauty and the beast ballet, originally from the musical play Music in my heart (Oct. 1949; and snapshots of Miss Page in London and with John Gilpin and Vassili Lambrinos (1953).

Call Number

(S) *MGZEB

OCLC

NYPY926052882-F

Author

Page, Ruth, 1899-1991.

Title

Photographic scrapbooks,

Imprint

1945-54.

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Local Subject

Dancers -- Scrapbooks.

Musical comedies. Music in my heart.

Opera ballet. Carmen.

Opera ballet. Lakmé.

Scrapbooks.

Added Author

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.

Research Call Number

(S) *MGZEB