Vaudeville

1350-01 1. How did the wave of Immigrants coming into New York influence the kind of entertainment being created? In the beginning of the 19th century there were many forms of entertainment that were created from all the different ethnic groups that flowed through New York. All of the different ethnic neighborhoods that housed the immigrants had their own special form of entertainment, whether it was watching a musician play at a pub, or on the street. As the different ethnic groups began to mix…

was one of eight children. At a young age, both her parents and her two brothers passed away. Bessie started singing and dancing on the street with her brother which helped her poor family financially. Her career started when she got a job with Vaudeville. Was given the name “Empress of the Blues” for her ability to endure the obstacles that a black female singer faced at the time. Bessie Smith faced indifferent, segregation, and other things in her personal life growing up. She traveled through…

with Ted Shawn and Martha improved her dancing skills. She is recognized for her first role of an attacked Aztec maiden, “Xochital” and a dance made for her by Shawn. By 1923, eight years after entering Denishawn, she found herself dancing in the vaudeville revue Greenwich Village Follies. It is where she was able to design her own dances. She wanted to expand her style of dance where she went to Eastman School of Music, where she was able to constraints of public performances. There she was…

Bishop experienced a succession of personal and professional milestones during the middle years of the Great Depression. In 1933, she was given her first one-woman show in New York City. A few years later, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased her painting Two Girls, the same year she was asked to return to Art Students League to teach. A decade later, she became the first woman to hold an executive position as Vice President of the National Institute of Arts & Letters. Among her many awards…

Zinsser’s Tips of Writing a Memoir William Zinsser said quite a few things about writing a memoir, like how you should be yourself While writing, talk about anything you want to include in your writing, and telling people what happened to you. In Walter Myers’s “Bad Boy,” he wrote about how much he loved reading and writing. This is shown On page 76 when Walter says, “What I was doing was spending more and more time in my room, reading or writing.” This shows that Walter talked about…

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller said these words because she was blind and deaf, therefore she could only feel things. So while other people was seeing the beauty of the world Helen was feeling the beauty of the world.Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Tuscmbia,AL. Helen Keller is considered one of the leading figures in the twentieth century. She lost both her vision and hearing when she was 19…

and more about the many arts of theatre I become more intrigued to explore every theatrical performance possibly out there. My latest experience of theatre was in Austin, Texas. I got the opportunity to attend the Esther’s Follies, a modern day vaudeville theatre. Some quick words to describe this fast pace performance is; colorful, magical, and filled multiple talents such as dancing and singing. The building is located on the corner of the very famous 6th street in Austin,…

the emigration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Many of the earliest black American recording stars were blues singers. The first blues songs to be recorded, often called “classic blues,” were jazz-influenced songs in a vaudeville style, sung by the great blueswomen: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and others. These singers were often accompanied by pianists,…

of Dance. In 1886, he joined the Mayme Remington’s troupe in Washington, D.C, and toured with them. In 1891, at the age of 12 years old Robinson joined a traveling company in the South before the War. in 1905 he worked with George Cooper as a vaudeville team, which restricted blacks to perform in pairs. He gained instant success as a nightclub and musical comedy performer, and during the next 25 years he became one of the toasts of Broadway. When he was 50 years old, he began dancing for…

The short story of “The Killers” written by Ernest Hemingway in 1927, and published in Scribner’s Magazine the same year is just one piece out of many of the author’s most famous works. Other famous work’s that Hemingway has written include, “Hills Like White Elephants,” “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” According to critics, Hemingway has an affinity for writing about characters that are often, “tough, experienced, and intensive. They are usually defeated men. But…