Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.

Description

1. 3 albums of photographs; 38-42 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Ruth Page Fisher.

Subject

1. Susanna and the barber (Choreographic work : Page)
2. Bells (Choreographic work : Page)
3. Triumph of chastity (Choreographic work : Page)
4. Rosay, Bettina
5. Bowman, Patricia
6. Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013
7. Scrapbooks
8. Wright, Belinda, 1929-
9. Love song (Choreographic work : Page)
10. Fisher, Thomas Hart
11. Frankie and Johnny (Choreographic work : Page and Stone, B)
12. Merry widow (Choreographic work : Page)
13. Gold standard (Choreographic work : Page)
14. Musical comedies > Music in my heart
15. London's Festival Ballet
16. Amor brujo (Choreographic work : Page)
17. Dances with words and music (Choreographic work : Page)
18. Gilpin, John, 1930-
19. Ballets des Champs-Elysées
20. Chicago Opera Ballet
21. Lambrinos, Vassili
22. Stone, Bentley
23. Dancers > Scrapbooks
24. Boris, Ruthanna
25. Briansky, Oleg
26. Camryn, Walter
27. Opera ballet > Lakmé
28. Talin, Nikita
29. Arova, Sonia
30. Opera ballet > Carmen

Contents

1. Vol. 1 (1949-51) includes photos of dancers Ruth Page, Bentley Stone, and Walter Camryn in Harlequinade, Beauty and the beast, Reunion, Liebestod, and Love song; formal portraits of Ruth Page; photos of Page in costume for sections from Dances with words and music, Tropic, Gold standard, Expanding universe, and The bells; and photos of Impromptu au bois, danced by Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées (May 1951).
2. Vol. 2 (1951-54) includes photos of Ruth Page, Bentley Stone, Sonia Arova, Barbara Steele, Oleg Briansky, and Belinda Wright in Susanna and the barber, Salome (Retribution), Revenge (1951), Vilia (The merry widow) for the London Festival Ballet (1953), Triumph of chastity, and El amor brujo.
3. Vol. 3 (1945-53) includes formal and informal portraits and snapshots of dancer Ruth Page in performance and private life, 1945-1953. Includes photos and snapshots of Miss Page with Bentley Stone (in Harlequinade) and Walter Camryn and Stone (in Reunion) at Jacob's Pillow, August 1949; snapshots of Page, Frederic Franklin, Nikita Talin, and Ruthanna Boris at Hubbard Woods, Illinois (1946); performance photos of The bells; photos and snapshots of Miss Page in Lament for the death of a Spanish bullfighter, Tropic, selections from Dances with words and music, Frankie and Johnny (1945), and formal portraits. Also includes photos of Isamu Noguchi's sketches of Ruth Page in Expanding universe (1934); informal snapshots of Thomas Hart Fisher, Bettina Rosay, Patricia Bowman, Walter Camryn, and Bentley Stone; snapshots of Ruth Page in performances of Lakmé and Carmen with the Chicago Opera; photos of Page and Stone in the Beauty and the beast ballet, originally from the musical play Music in my heart (Oct. 1949; and snapshots of Miss Page in London and with John Gilpin and Vassili Lambrinos (1953).

Call number

1. (S) *MGZEB

Author

1. Page, Ruth, 1899-1991.

Title

1. Photographic scrapbooks,

Imprint

1. 1945-54.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Dancers -- Scrapbooks.
2. Musical comedies. Music in my heart.
3. Opera ballet. Carmen.
4. Opera ballet. Lakmé.
5. Scrapbooks.

Added author

1. Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.

Research call number

1. (S) *MGZEB