DescriptionThe dancing girls from the show "Gingham Girl" doing the 42nd Street Strut circa 1930. Left to right: Elmira Compton, Erna Shellhorn Sasdilli, Lily Wills, Dorothy Boysen, Bertha Able Beck, Esther...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionDancers from the "Waltz Number" of the show "Gingham Girls", this photo shows two rows of standing women in long, sleeveless dresses and high heels. Bottom row: Anna Weiler, Grace Lehneis Perna, Erna...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionSummarizes the musicals, plays and operettas offered to theatergoers in the 62 theaters open in New York City in 1932. An impressive number were international, including Gilbert and Sullivan, Chekhov,...
DescriptionMore dancers from the "Twinkle Number" in "Gingham Girls". Left to right: Hilda, Honey Florence Shellhorn, Jenny Schurko, Grace Lehneis Perna, unknown, Helen. This younger group were called ponies. ...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionThe cast of performers in the play : The childish woman (March 10, 1929). Presented by the Cultural Group of the Hungarian Reformed Church, South River, New Jersey.
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionThis is a photograph of the Christmas play at St. Nicholas School in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, circa 1955.
In the front row is Rudy Rundio, Joyce Wimberg, Lloyd Wimberg (clown in chimney) and John...
DescriptionSixteenth-century French religious theater inherited the character of the devil from the Middle Ages; more specifically, from “Medieval” mystery plays whose popularity was still strong, if...