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Lollipop - Vaudeville Turns with a Fanchon and Marco Dancer (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,100
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Lollipop - Vaudeville Turns with a Fanchon and Marco Dancer (Hardcover): Reva Howitt Clar

Lollipop - Vaudeville Turns with a Fanchon and Marco Dancer (Hardcover)

Reva Howitt Clar; Edited by Mimi Clar Melnick

Series: Studies and Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment

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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. A first-hand chronicle of the weekly shows, rehearsals, costumes, publicity stunts, and backstage intrigues that typified any vaudeville performer, Lollipop sweeps the reader into the jazz age, when live stage show entertainment served as the West Coast's main link to the current music and dance trends in New York, detailing Clar's ten-year association with Fanchon and Marco from 1923-1933, first as a dancer, then as co-director of their dance school. The text also highlights the eventual fade of vaudeville from the entertainment circuit, caused by the Great Depression. Supplemented with historical tidbits and anecdotes from her daughter, Clar's memoir offers an intimate portrait of vaudeville life from the viewpoint of a non-headliner. This diverting and entertaining glimpse of a lost era in American culture is an enjoyable read for students of American popular culture, vaudeville, and theatre history.

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Imprint: Scarecrow Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Studies and Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment
Release date: September 2002
First published: July 2002
Authors: Reva Howitt Clar
Editors: Mimi Clar Melnick
Dimensions: 223 x 147 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-4186-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Variety shows, music hall, cabaret
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 0-8108-4186-X
Barcode: 9780810841864

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