New York City Vaudeville, (NY)

New York City Vaudeville provides a unique pictorial record of America_s preeminent entertainment medium in the late 1800s through the early 1930s. New York_s Palace Theatre served as the flagship for vaudeville, on which stage every vaudevillian aspired to perform. New York City Vaudeville features photographs of some of the greatest names from the Palace Theatre, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Anna Held, the Marx Brothers, and Eva Tanguay, as well as legendary African American performers such as Bill Robinson, Ethel Waters, and Bert Williams. Through the photographs and the capsule biographies, the reader is transported back to a time when vaudeville was the people_s entertainment, with a new bill of fare each week and an ever-changing number of performers with ever-changing styles of presentation.Slide, Anthony is the author of 'New York City Vaudeville, (NY) ' with ISBN 9780738545622 and ISBN 0738545627.