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Stiff illustrated wraps. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. Magazine: 4to. Pp. [28]. Photo illustrated cover printed black and red, saddle stapled. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions. Cover edges rubbed and mellowed creases. Program: 8vo. Pp. 38. Black & white illustrated cover printed, saddle stapled. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions, drawings and display advertising. Minimally soiled. The New York producer, writer and composer opened a Hollywood theatre in 1938. These items celebrate his fourth year there. On the program: his second edition of "Star Spangled Glamour, a new revue in two acts and forty scenes." Players include Aurora Miranda, Rolly Rolls, Shirley Wayne, St. Clair and Day, Gali Gali, and Beryl Wallace. Interspersed with ads for restaurants, nightclubs and boutiques. The Aurora Miranda scene was enhanced by the Michel Ortiz Rhumba Band. The souvenir magazine includes a Carroll biography, construction of the theatre, the Wall of Fame on its Sunset Boulevard facade, photos of past productions and many girls. Featured on the cover is Beryl Wallace who in 1948 perished with Carroll in the crash of an airliner. A fascinating look at Hollywood nightlife during WWII. .…

Female vaudeville, burlesque, dance, and showgirl photo archive, circa 1900 to 1957, documenting the changing public presentation of women's sexuality and performance across more than half a century of American popular entertainment. The photographs follow female performers from turn of the century theatrical portraiture through burlesque and revue culture to the increasingly revealing costumes and highly controlled publicity imagery of the midcentury showgirl. Performers appear not simply as models but as professional entertainers whose costumes, poses, bodies, and theatrical personas were reproduced for audiences beyond the theaters in which they worked. Images associated with "Earl Carroll's Vanities," "The Redheads," and a "Las Vegas Show Girl" connect the group to the commercial entertainment culture that transformed the female stage performer into a widely circulated figure of glamour and sexuality. Photo archive of 25 photographs and postcards, comprising two large silver gelatin publicity photographs and 23 real photo and lithographic postcards, ranging from approximately 3.5 x 5 to 8 x 10 inches, circa 1900 to 1957. The earliest images present women in the visual vocabulary of vaudeville and theatrical studio portraiture, posed in elaborate dresses, fringed costumes, stockings, dance attire, and increasingly abbreviated stage clothing. An early photographic postcard depicts a performer identified in the image as "No. 19 Ramus," while a studio portrait inscribed "1927 'Dimples'" shows its subject in a beaded and fringed theatrical costume. Other postcards present dancers in feathered headdresses, bathing and chorus costumes, theatrical gowns, and poses emphasizing legs, movement, and bodily display. Later lithographic cards explicitly identify the worlds into which this imagery developed, including "Earl Carroll's Vanities" and "Las Vegas Show Girl." The two large silver gelatin publicity photographs bring the sequence into midcentury professional entertainment promotion. One portrays three women identified as "The Redheads" in coordinated costumes, fishnet stockings, heels, and towering feathered headpieces; another presents Barbara Nichols in the 1957 Columbia film "Pal Joey" as the showgirl Gladys. The archive spans the transformation of an entertainment in which vaudeville, musical revue, burlesque, nightclub performance, Hollywood publicity, and eventually the Las Vegas showgirl repeatedly redefined the boundaries of permissible female display. Burlesque made striptease and teasing revelation increasingly central to its twentieth century identity, while large scale revues such as Earl Carroll's productions turned elaborate costuming and the display of female bodies into defining components of theatrical spectacle. By the postwar period, the same visual vocabulary had moved across nightclub entertainment and pinup culture to television entertainment and celebrity. The sequence records changes in fashion and permissible exposure while preserving a striking continuity in the performer's control of pose, costume, gesture, and theatrical persona, locating midcentury showgirl culture within a much longer history of women making public careers from dance, glamour, comedy, spectacle, and sexual display. Light to moderate handling wear, toning, occasional creasing, edge wear, and scattered surface marks, with some early postcards showing greater age related wear; publicity photographs remain well defined. Overall in very good condition. A half century visual record of the female entertainer as vaudeville performer, dancer, burlesque artist, chorus girl, glamour figure, and showgirl, tracing the theatrical and commercial forms through which women's public sexual presentation entered American mass culture. Signed.…