Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Gertrude Macy [sound recording]

Author

Macy, Gertrude, 1904-1983.

Publication

1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• De Mille, Agnes
• DHCA.

Description

1 sound recording (55 min.)

Summary

Side 1. Ms. Macy discusses the time when "Kit" [Katherine Cornell] first met Graham; arranging Graham's first season on Broadway; Laura Elliott; having supper with Graham and Carl Jung; Mrs. Wickes; Erick Hawkins and Graham; Graham's secretiveness; 1950 tour; the hiring of "Lee" Leatherman; Graham's knee injury -- Side 2. Bethsabée de Rothschild's relationship with Graham; Graham's temper; Ron Protas' influence on Graham; Lila Wallace's gifts to Graham; Graham meeting Mary Wigman; Lee Leatherman; filming Graham's repertory; the Graham company today--[de Mille's husband, Walter Prude, enters conversation but hard to hear]; Louis Horst.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral History Archive. Gift of Agnes de Mille.

Subjects

• Prude, Walter
• Audiotapes > De Mille, A
• Elliott, Laura
• Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973
• Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974
• Protas, Ron
• Audiotapes > Macy, G
• Rothschild, Bethsabée de, baroness
• Jung, C. G (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
• Horst, Louis
• Wickes, Frances G (Frances Gillespy), 1875-1967
• Graham, Martha
• Dance company tours
• Hawkins, Erick
• Martha Graham Dance Company
• Leatherman, LeRoy
• Wallace, Lila Acheson, 1887-1984

Note

• Interview conducted by Agnes de Mille as part of her research for the biography of Martha Graham entitled Martha.

Event (note)

• Recorded March 10, 1983.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1630

OCLC

NYPY95-R23

Author

Macy, Gertrude, 1904-1983. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Gertrude Macy [sound recording]

Imprint

1983.

Event

Recorded March 10, 1983.

Local Subject

Dance company tours.

Audiotapes -- De Mille, A.

Audiotapes -- Macy, G.

Added Author

De Mille, Agnes. Interviewer

De Mille, Agnes. Martha.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1630