Research Catalog

Title

Lollipop : vaudeville turns with a Fanchon and Marco dancer / Reva Howitt Clar ; edited by Mimi Melnick.

Author

Clar, Reva Howitt.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Melnick, Mimi.

Description

xviii, 285 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Take a journey back in time to an era when movie theaters were movie houses, jazz was king, and vaudeville was one of the premiere forms of entertainment. Lollipop is the late Reva Howitt Clar's memoir of her colorful career with the legendary brother-and-sister producing team of Fanchon and Marco and the first detailed insight into the workings of this famous pair."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies and documentation in the history of popular entertainment ; no. 4

Uniform Title

Studies and documentation in the history of popular entertainment ; no. 4.

Subject

• Clar, Reva Howitt
• Dancers > United States > Biography
• Vaudeville > United States > History

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• 1. Debut -- 2. Amateur Time -- 3. Transition -- 4. Professional Life -- 5. Living Conditions -- 6. Working Conditions -- 7. Recollections -- 8. The Record Begins -- 9. Twenty-Four Shootouts -- 10. The Warfield Girls -- 11. The "San Francisco Beauties Idea" -- 12. Southern California -- 13. The "Yachting Idea" -- 14. A San Francisco Welcome -- 15. The "Book Idea" -- 16. Northward Again -- 17. And Southward Again -- 18. The "Polar Idea" -- 19. Goodbye, Los Angeles -- 20. Marquard's Cafe -- 21. San Francisco in 1928 -- 22. Change Partners -- 23. The Work Continues -- 24. The Boulevard Theatre -- 25. The "River Idea" -- 26. Flowing Northward -- 27. The "Gobs of Joy Idea" -- 28. Sailing Northward -- 29. New Territory -- 30. New York -- 31. The Palace! -- 32. Keith-Orpheum Time -- 33. Letters -- 34. Broadway Again -- 35. Washington, D.C. -- 36. Philadelphia -- 37. Loew's Southern Time -- 38. Atlanta and Memphis -- 39. New Orleans --
• 40. Houston and Onward -- 41. Toronto, Montreal, and Boston -- 42. Fox-Poli Time -- 43. New York and "Gobs" End -- 44. Changes -- 45. The Pantages Theatre -- 46. More Pantages -- 47. Goodbye Dancing -- 48. The Booking Office -- 49. More Changes -- 50. Layoff -- 51. The Dancing School -- 52. Engagement -- 53. Marriage -- 54. One Last Bow.

ISBN

081084186X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002021213

OCLC

• ocm49320475
• SCSB-4301397

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries