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[The haunted ballroom]
- Title
- [The haunted ballroom] [graphic] / E.M.
- Author
- Montgomery, Elizabeth, 1902-
- Publication
- [1934]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZGA Mon E Hau 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Motley (Organization) asn
- Description
- 1 drawing : watercolor, graphite, col.; 40 x 26 cm.
- Summary
- Costume design for the role of Young Treginnis in the ballet The haunted ballroom.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Note
- Initialed.
- Labeled: The son.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Biography (note)
- The haunted ballroom (choreography, Ninette de Valois; music and scenario, Geoffrey Toye) was first performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet in London in 1934. Its scenery and costumes were credited to Motley, a trio of stage designers: Sophie Devine, Margaret Harris, and Elizabeth Montgomery. This costume may be seen in a photograph, held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, of Margot Fonteyn as Young Treginnis (a role first performed by Freda Bamford), the son of the ballet's ill-fated protagonist, the Master of Treginnis. The velvet suit, sash, and lace collar and cuffs were faithfully realized, but instead of the long curls of the design Fonteyn wears a shorter hairstyle.
- Motley, a team of three British stage designers, comprised the sisters Margaret Harris and Sophie Devine, and their friend Elizabeth Montgomery. Active from 1932 to 1976, they were a major presence in stage design both in Britain and the United States, where Harris and Montgomery worked for a time. They designed plays, ballets, operas, and films, and founded a school for stage design in Britain.
- Call Number
- *MGZGA Mon E Hau 1
- OCLC
- 756663309
- Author
- Montgomery, Elizabeth, 1902-
- Title
- [The haunted ballroom] [graphic] / E.M.
- Imprint
- [1934]
- Biography
- The haunted ballroom (choreography, Ninette de Valois; music and scenario, Geoffrey Toye) was first performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet in London in 1934. Its scenery and costumes were credited to Motley, a trio of stage designers: Sophie Devine, Margaret Harris, and Elizabeth Montgomery. This costume may be seen in a photograph, held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, of Margot Fonteyn as Young Treginnis (a role first performed by Freda Bamford), the son of the ballet's ill-fated protagonist, the Master of Treginnis. The velvet suit, sash, and lace collar and cuffs were faithfully realized, but instead of the long curls of the design Fonteyn wears a shorter hairstyle.Motley, a team of three British stage designers, comprised the sisters Margaret Harris and Sophie Devine, and their friend Elizabeth Montgomery. Active from 1932 to 1976, they were a major presence in stage design both in Britain and the United States, where Harris and Montgomery worked for a time. They designed plays, ballets, operas, and films, and founded a school for stage design in Britain.
- Local Note
- For a costume design by Sophie Devine for The haunted ballroom, see: *MGZGB Dev S Hau 1.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Added Author
- Motley (Organization) Associated name
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGA Mon E Hau 1