Broadway Collection (#8)

Three dancing scenes - one from a Universal Movie
Three dancing scenes from 1929 - top from the Universal Pictures film Broadway with Glen Tryon (Universals first talking picture with technicolour sequences)

A scene from the Publix - Paramount stage presentation show Rainbow Trail by Dave Gould, New York, 1929 with costumes by Dolly Tree Date: 1929

The dancing girls in Honey - an RKO presentation stage show, USA, 1929 Date: 1929

Cover for Dance Magazine September 1929 featuring Ruby Keeler Jolson Date: 1929

Betsy Rees in A Night In Venice, New York, 1929
American dancer Betsy Rees in A Night In Venice, New York, 1929 Date: 1929

Helen Gray in The Toe Jazzbuck - a novelty Buck
Helen Gray (headliner on the Keith-Albee Vaudeville Circuit) showing The Toe Jazzbuck - a novelty Buck and Wing Toe dance, 1927 featuring Butterfly, Gilda Gray Strut, Charleston Glide

A costume sketch by Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson (From Mahieu Costume Company) for an Oriental Nautch dancer, 1927 Date: 1927

The ballroom and Exhibition dancers the De Marcos, stars of vaudeville and cabaret, 1927 Date: 1927

The novelty ballroom dance called Novelette performed by dancing team of Madeleine Northway and George Chiles at the Hotel Biltmore, New York, 1927 Date: 1927

Two photographs of Eddie Cantor, 1927
Two photographs of the American entertainer Eddie Cantor, 1927 Date: 1927

Felicia Sorel and Senia Gluck in a pose from their
Felicia Sorel and Senia Gluck (Gluck Sandor) in a pose from their Geometric Charleston, who will be giving a series of concerts in New York, 1927 Date: 1927

The American dancer Helen Brown premier dancer in the new Ziegfeld Follies, 1927 Date: 1927

Harriet Hoctor as the Fairy Doll in A La Carte, Rosalie Stewarts revue, 1927 Date: 1927

The dancer Gilda Gray who will appear in the film Devil Dancer from United Artists, 1927 Date: 1927

A portrait of George M. Cohan, 1928 - American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer Date: 1928

The dancer Annie Pritchard in the latest edition of the Greenwich Village Follies, New York, 1928 Date: 1928

A portait of Joyce Coles featured at the Roxy Theatre, New York, 1928 Date: 1928

The Sidell Sisters featured dancers in Ziegfelds Show Boat, 19 Date: 1928

Cover of Dance Magazine, June 1928 featuring Joyce Coles
Cover of Dance Magazine, June 1928 featuring an illustration of Joyce Coles by Jean Oldham based on a photograph by Nickolas Murray Date: 1928

New York to Hollywood - a trio of dancers who transferred to Hollywood from Broadway, 1930 - Inez Courtney to appear in First Nationals version of Spring (top left)

Two film photographs: top left an ensemble shot
Two film photographs: top left ensemble shot from Gold Diggers of Broadway featuring Ann Pennigton and top right William Powell and Evelyn Brent in Interference, a Paramount talkie (1930). Date: 1930

Advert for Johm Murray Anderson who devised and directed King of Jazz, a Universal Picture, 1930 Date: 1930

American Dance Moments from 1929. Joyce Coles (top left) appearing in Broadway Nights. Berinoff and Eulalie (top right) back from a tour of Europe

A portrait of Dorothy Stone in the leading role of Ziegfelds musical Show Girl, 1929 Date: 1929

Florenz Ziegfeld and a scene from The Little Duchess produced in 1901 with Anna Held in the centre Date: 1929

A photograph of Anna Held aged 15 with her mother (top right) and a later photograph (bottom left) Date: 1929

Two poses of Anna Held taken in Paris before she came to America in 1898 - she had cultivated a naughty French stage persona Date: 1929

Beryl Wallace picked by The Dance Magazine as the typical Earl Carroll Girl (Floradora 1930 Model) - she was one of the leading performers of Earl Carrolls Vanities

Two of the Pearl Eatons Radio Pictures girls Alice Jans and June Glory, 1930 who were last seen in The Cuckoos. Pearl Eaton was a dance director, formerly working on Broadway for Dillingham

A portrait of Irene Delroy at Warner Brothers, 1930 (she had deserted Boradway for Hollywood) Date: 1930

A portrait of Bessie Love at MGM, 1930 - who appeared in Broadway Melody and will be in Good News Date: 1930

The dancer Tilly Losch, 1930 Date: 1930

A portrait of George M. Cohan in the role of Happy Farrell in his revived play The Song and Dance Man, 1930 Date: 1930

A portrait of the dancer Tamara Geva, 1930 - who was a hit of the last Chauve Souris, and an outstanding success of Whoopee last season Date: 1930

A portrait of Walter Winchell, the Boswell of Broadway, 1930 Date: 1930

A portrait of the dancer and actress Claire Luce, 1930 Date: 1930

Two photographs of Ann Pennington and Ned Wayburn, 1930 Date: 1930

Jeannette MacDonald who jumped from Broadway to Hollywood
The singer and dancer Jeannette MacDonald who jumped from Broadway to Hollywood, 1930 Date: 1930

The dancer Virginia Kent, captain of Gambys dancers in Ginger Snaps, a touring Publix stage presentation show, 1930 Date: 1930

A portrait of Patricia Bowman - Patsy - daning at
A portrait of Patricia Bowman (Patsy) dancing at the Roxy Theatre, New York, 1930 Date: 1930

Nell O Day in Joe Cooks Fine and Dandy, 1930 Date: 1930

Eleanor Powell in Joe Cooks Fine and Dandy, 1930 Date: 1930

Photograph of Ginger Rogers, 1930 Date: 1930

Portrait of Jeanne Aubert, the French actress, singer and dancer, 1931. Imported to America by Connolly and Swanstrom for Princess Charming

Two costumes sketches by Mabel E. Johnston and Charles LeMaire, for Broadway, 1931. Johnstons creation is for a gay tap number. LeMaires creation is for Nell O Day in Fine and Dandy. Date: 1931

Portrait of American dancer Harriet Hoctor, 1930, seen in Florenz Ziegfelds Simple Simon Date: 1930

Portrait of the Amercian singer Helen Morgan, 1930 Date: 1930

Cover of Dance Magazine, July 1930 featuring Fay Adler and Ted Bradford Date: 1930

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