Musique

Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1890-1919

2004017506Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 634pp; No DJ red cloth boards with silver titling to spine boards square clean & bright minor staining to edges of textblock text unmarked binding is tight VG condition. Extensive and detailed history of the first Black recording artists. Illustrated with photos. Also includes Appendix of Caribbean and South American Recordings by Dick Spottswood. University of Illinois Press hardcover

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Broonzy, William; Yannick BruynogheBiblio.com

Big Bill Blues: Willian Broonzy's Story.

199237819New York Da Capo Press 1992 paperback. First printing of this republication original was 1964. "As told to Yannick Bruynoghe." With 9 pages of illustrations plus drawings by Paul Oliver. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0306804905 Da Capo Press paperback

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BROWN, Howard Mayer, and LASCELLE, JoanBiblio.com

Musical Iconography: A Manual for Cataloguing Musical Subjects in Western Art Before 1800

197230694Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth gilt. xiii 220pp. Illustrations. Very good. Slight bit of quite mild wear. Tight clean and nice first edition of this uncommon reference. From the collection of conductor and musicologist Paul Clinton Echols 1944-94. Harvard University Press hardcover

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BROWNING, Robert, words by, and Alick Maclean, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: Hold Me With a Charm

1910603785New York: Boosey & Co 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Age toning throughout publisher's stamp on the front cover bumping to the corners and light edgewear very good. For voice and piano. Plate number 556 - 5. The back cover features short samples of five songs including "A Roundelay" and "When the May's in Bloom." OCLC locates only five holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Boosey & Co unknown

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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, words by, and Roy Newman, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: Out in the Fields with God

1939604968Philadelphia: The John Church Company 1939. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Some soiling throughout a large stamp that reads "Printed in type department" on the front cover and some light edgewear very good. For voice and piano. Plate number 30764 - 3. The back cover features short samples of four songs "The Bird with a Broken Wing" "Bless Yo' Heart" "A Little Dutch Garden" and "Sunset." OCLC locates only a single holding and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. The John Church Company unknown

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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, words by, and Florence Newell Barbour, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: Love’s Ecstasy Mezzo-Soprano or Baritone

1922606228Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co 1922. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. A nick at the bottom of the fold of the outer bifolium "Professional Copy" stamp at the top of the front cover and some soiling to the exterior still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "A.P.S. 12434-6." OCLC locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. The Arthur P. Schmidt Co unknown

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BROWNING, Robert, words by, and C Villiers Stanford, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: Cavalier Songs No. 2: King Charles

1880607730London: Boosey & Co 1880. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Outer bifolium notched and worn along the fold from once being bound with in an album and separating a bit at the top of the fold inner bifolia notched music shop stamp price stamp and publisher's stamp on the front cover and rubbing to the exterior still a complete and very good copy. For baritone solo and male chorus with piano accompaniment. OCLC locates nine holdings. Boosey & Co unknown

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BROWNING, Robert, words by, and Albert Jowett, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: A Woman’s Last Word

1916607699London: Schott & Co 1916. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Publisher's stamp on the front cover toning and light edgewear still a complete and very good copy. For low voice and piano. Plate imprint "S. & Co. 3472b." OCLC locates two holdings. Schott & Co unknown

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BROWNING, Robert, words by, and Reginald de Koven, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: There’s a Woman Like a Dewdrop

1890611063New York: G. Schirmer 1890. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Owner name crossed out and another owner name written in pencil on the front cover offsetting to the exterior bifolium splitting at the bottom of the fold and a bit at the top still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 8022. OCLC locates three holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. G. Schirmer unknown

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BROWNING, Robert, words by, and Gena Branscombe, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: Serenade I Send My Heart Up to Thee

1905611038Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co 1905. Softcover. Fair. Quarto. Single bifolium making four pages. Edgewear including significant tearing though the music remains perfectly legible bifolium splitting along the bottom half of the fold and soiling to the front cover a complete but fair to good only copy. For voice alto or bass and piano. Plate imprint "A.P.S. 9364-2." Branscombe was a Canadian born composer and pianist who graduated from the Chicago Musical College; she went on to have a successful career in music both as a teacher and a composer and was involved in several women's organizations including the Society of American Women Composers and the National League of American Pen Women. In her doctoral dissertation on Branscombe Laurine Elkins-Marlow describes Branscombe's legacy as such "Her life is an inspiring record of a woman of great ability who carved . a viable musical career … when American composers were just coming into their own in this country. The Arthur P. Schmidt Co unknown

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BROWNING, Robert, words by, and G Waring Stebbins, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: The Heart of a Pearl

1925611031Boston: Oliver Ditson Company 1925. Softcover. Very Good. Stamped as "Advertising Copy." Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Name stamp on the front cover bumping to the corners and some light soiling to the exterior still a complete and very good copy. For high voice and piano. The name stamp is that of Fay Foster a prolific American composer and pianist who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. G. Waring Stebbins was a composer teacher and the organist at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn he taught at the Teachers' Training Institute and mostly produced religious and choral music. This piece is unrecorded by OCLC and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Oliver Ditson Company unknown

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BROWNING, Robert, words by, and A Walter Kramer, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: The Patriot

1925611047Cincinnati: The John Church Company 1925. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. Foreword by A. Walter Kramer. 15pp. Sewn wrappers. Light dampstain at the bottom of the fore edge of the front wrapper not affecting the interior a couple small tears at the top of the front wrapper and bumping to the corners very good. For high voice and piano. Plate number 18960-13. The foreword beings "I think it will be of interest to the many admirers of the art of the late Evan Williams to know that Browning's 'The Patriot' was one of the great tenor's favorite poems." It goes on to explain how Williams asked Kramer to set the poem to music in 1917 initially Kramer liked the idea and began work but decided to stop when he realized the song could be misconstrued as a "'patriotic song' one of those wretched concoctions that were ground out by the hundred in those days." It was not until years after the war that Kramer decided to finish the piece unfortunately by then Williams had passed away and so Kramer dedicates the song to Williams' memory "a song that would not have been composed had he not sat with me one day and recited this poem so stirringly that I longed to attempt the setting of it." OCLC locates nine physical holdings. The John Church Company unknown

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Buchner, AlexanderBiblio.com

Mechanical Musical Instruments

008551London: Batchworth Press. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Batchworth Press no date c. 1960. Folio 10 1/4" x 13 3/8" 110pp. plus 174pp. of full page plates. Black cloth with gilt titles and gilt cover design decorative endpapers. Translated by Iris Urwin. Chimes Carillons Comb Mechanisms Free metal Reeds Organ Mechanisms Flute-Playing Clocks Barrel Organs Orchestrions Mechanical Singing Birds Androides and Stringed Instruments. Some fade to the cloth else very good clean tight. . Very Good. Hard. Batchworth Press unknown

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The Seven Old Ladies of Lavender Town: An Operetta in Two Acts

191046786New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1910. First Separate Edition. Slim oblong quarto 19x25.5cm.; publisher's pale grey pictorial cloth stamped in black and orange; 237pp.; illus. and sheet music throughout. Cloth a bit dust-soiled and toned corners gently bumped else Very Good and sound. First published in the 1897 collection "Three Operettas." BAL 1946. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown

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BURNS, Robert, poem by, and Mrs HHA Beach, music by H H ABiblio.com

Sheet music: Far Awa' : Song Alto or Baritone - Op. 43 No. 4

1899573035Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co 1899. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Separating a bit at the top and bottom of the fold faint vertical crease along the middle rubbing and a few marks to the exterior and light edgewear still a very good and complete copy. For alto or baritone voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate impression "A.P.S. 11456-4. The Arthur P. Schmidt Co unknown

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BURNS, Robert, poem by, and Mrs HHA Beach, music by H H ABiblio.com

Sheet music: Far Awa' : Song Soprano or Tenor - Op. 43 No. 4

1899607430Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co 1899. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Separating a bit at the top and bottom of the fold faint foxing and light soiling to the exterior and edgewear still a very good and complete copy. For soprano or tenor voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate impression "A.P.S. 5044. The Arthur P. Schmidt Co unknown

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Burrowes JF J FBiblio.com

The Thorough-Base Primer containing Explanations and Examples of the Rudiments of Harmony; with Fifty Exercises

1860047398New York: William Hall 1860. later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Nicely rebound in blue calf backed marbled boards with the original label laid back down. Undated ca. 1860 the 15th edition. 95 36pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Music; Inventory No: 047398. William Hall hardcover

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BURT, StruthersBiblio.com

War Songs

194220063New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1942. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial red paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 46pp. Very good/very good. Spine slightly sunned. First edition of this collection of patriotic ballads inscribed on the front flyleaf "To Arnold Gates with / the very best possible of wishes from / his friend; Struthers Burt" and dated Southern Pines North Carolina January 5 1943. Tight and attractive. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover

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BYRON, [Alfred] Lord, words by, and Emil E Hansen, music byBiblio.com

Sheet music: Fill the Goblet Again

1903607857Chicago: Windsor Music Co 1903. Softcover. Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Edgewear including chips and tears blue pencil and a music shop stamp on the front cover and soiling to the exterior a complete and good or better copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Fill the goblet again. 4-page number." Features short samples of three other songs. OCLC locates only a single holding. Windsor Music Co unknown

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Camden County Music Fair Haddonfield N.J. 1962 Season Presenting Red Buttons in "The Tender Trap"

196283808Philadelphia: Kamens Printing 1962. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 16 pages including covers. Illustrations black and white only. The Tender Trap was a 1954 Broadway play by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith starring Robert Preston Ronny Graham Kim Hunter and Joey Faye. It made its debut at the Longacre Theatre on October 13 1954 and closed on January 8 1955 after 102 performances. The story: Charlie Reader is a young bachelor in New York who's living the ideal life. Or so it seems to Joe McCall an old friend of his from Indianapolis. Charlie has an elegant apartment a good job and millions of girls—all eager to bring him food tidy up his apartment and fall in with his every wish. The play was filmed in 1955 in a movie adaptation starring Frank Sinatra. The program includes Who's Who in the Cast Red Buttons was the star along with Lee Grant and Murray Hamilton Program page with major cast and crew listed Cast of Characters in order of appearance Synopsis of Scenes and Camden County Music Fair administrative and production staff and program credits. There are local advertisements throughout. A resident recalled that in 1957 the facility was known as the Camden County Music Circus. In approximately 1959 it was taken over by the Guber Ford and Gross organization and renamed the Camden County Music Fair. The Camden County Music Fair was held at an outdoor amphitheatre "in-the-round" from May thru Sept. every year. First opened in 1961. It was under a large 3-pole tent providing seating for approx. 2000 people per show. Hosted Broadway shows musicals and rock groups. Red Buttons born Aaron Chwatt; February 5 1919 - July 13 2006 was an American actor and comedian. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1957 film Sayonara. He was nominated for awards for his acting work in films such as They Shoot Horses Don't They Harlow and Pete's Dragon. Buttons played the lead role of Private John Steele in the 1962 international ensemble cast film The Longest Day. At sixteen years old Chwatt got a job as an entertaining bellhop at Ryan's Tavern in City Island the Bronx New York City. The combination of his red hair and the large shiny buttons on the bellhop uniforms inspired orchestra leader Charles "Dinty" Moore to call him "Red Buttons" the name under which he would later perform. Later that same summer Buttons worked on the Borscht Belt;1 his straight man was Robert Alda. In 1942 Buttons appeared in the Minsky's show Wine Women and Song. This was the last classic Burlesque show in New York City history as the Mayor La Guardia administration closed it down. Buttons was on stage when the show was raided. Lee Grant born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31 during the mid-1920s is an American actress documentarian and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. This role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952 she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years. Grant was able to find only occasional work onstage or as a teacher during this period. It also contributed to her divorce. During this time Grant appeared in plays on stage. She was removed from the blacklist in 1963 and started to rebuild her on-screen acting career. She starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place 1965-1966 followed by lead roles in films such as Valley of the Dolls and In the Heat of the Night in 1967 as well as Shampoo 1975 for which she won an Oscar. In 1964 she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. During her career she was nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 and 1993 winning twice. In 1986 she directed the documentary Down and Out in America which tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and in the same year she also won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody's Child. Grant appeared in a number of plays and in a few small television roles during her blacklisted years. In 1953 she played Rose Peabody in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. On stage Grant starred in the Broadway production of Two for the Seesaw in 1959 she succeeded Anne Bancroft in the lead female role. That same year she had a supporting role in the romantic drama Middle of the Night. Murray Hamilton March 24 1923 - September 1 1986 was an American stage screen and television character actor who appeared in such films as Anatomy of a Murder The Hustler The Graduate The Amityville Horror and Jaws. For many years both before and during his film career Hamilton was a prominent dramatic stage actor earning a Tony Award nomination for his role in the 1965 production of Absence of a Cello. New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson praised his work in the play Stockade which was based on a part of the James Jones novel From Here to Eternity: "Murray Hamilton is an ideal Prewitt. Modest in manner pleasant of voice he has a steel-like spirit that brings Prewitt honestly to life." When the actor was suffering from cancer and found film roles harder to come by his old co-star George C. Scott helped out by getting him a part in the made-for-television movie The Last Days of Patton 1986. Kamens Printing paperback

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Camden County Music Fair Haddonfield N.J. 1961 Season Presenting Phyllis McGuire in Annie Get Your Gun Aug. 21st thru Aug. 26th

196183806Philadelphia: Kamens Printing Co 1961. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 16 pages including covers. Illustrations black and white only. Includes Who's Who in the Cast Phyllis McGuire was the star which also included Cherry Davis Walter Farrell and Lulu Bates Program page with major cast and crew listed Cast of Characters in order of appearance Synopsis of Scenes Musical Numbers and Camden County Music Fair administrative and production staff and program credits. There are local advertisements throughout. Eye-catching full page advertisement on the back cover of the program. A resident recalled that in 1957 the facility was known as the Camden County Music Circus. In approximately 1959 it was taken over by the Guber Ford and Gross organization and renamed the Camden County Music Fair. The Camden County Music Fair was held at an outdoor amphitheatre "in-the-round" from May thru Sept. every year. First opened in 1961. It was under a large 3-pole tent providing seating for approx. 2000 people per show. Hosted Broadway shows musicals and rock groups. Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington D.C. during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is based on Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. The show ran for 1019 performances in its original Broadway production. Ms. McGuire with her older sisters Christine and Dorothy shot to success overnight after winning the televised "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts" contest in 1952. Over the next 15 years they were one of the nation's most popular vocal groups singing on the television variety shows of Ed Sullivan Milton Berle Andy Williams and Red Skelton on nightclub circuits across the country and on records that sold millions. The sisters epitomized a 1950s sensibility that held up a standard of unreal perfection wearing identical coifs dresses and smiles moving with synchronized precision and blending voices in wholesome songs for simpler times. Their music like that of Perry Como Patti Page and other stars who appealed to white middle-class audiences contrasted starkly with the rock 'n' roll craze that was taking the world by storm in the mid-to-late '50s. In 1965 as the trio's popularity began to fade Phyllis McGuire's image as the honey-blonde girl next door was shattered by published reports linking her romantically with Sam Giancana a Chicago mobster with reputed ties to the Kennedy administration and a Central Intelligence Agency plot to enlist the Mafia in what proved to be unsuccessful attempts to assassinate the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Mr. Giancana and Ms. McGuire who had been followed by federal agents for several years appeared before a grand jury in Chicago. He refused to answer questions and was jailed for contempt. She testified that she had met him in Las Vegas in 1961 traveled with him to Europe the Caribbean and elsewhere and accepted his gifts in a continuing relationship. She was aware that he was a reputed gangster she said but insisted that she knew nothing of his underworld activities. "It makes me look terrible" she told reporters afterward. "It would be different if I were on my own but I'm not a single — I'm part of a trio. My sisters and my parents — they're brokenhearted about this." The McGuire Sisters retired from public appearances in 1968 Christine and Dorothy to raise families Phyllis to continue as a soloist. She appeared regularly in Las Vegas where she lived for the rest of her life in a mansion with a swan moat and a replica of the Eiffel Tower rising through the roof. Ms. McGuire remained unapologetic about her relationship with Mr. Giancana. "Sam was the greatest teacher I ever could have had" she told Dominick Dunne of Vanity Fair in 1989. "He was so wise about so many things. Sam is always depicted as unattractive. He wasn't. He was a very nice-looking man. He wasn't flashy. He didn't drive a pink Cadillac like they used to say." In 1985 the sisters reunited for a comeback and performed for almost two decades at casinos and clubs in Las Vegas Atlantic City and elsewhere. They sang their own hits 1950s pop hits and Broadway show tunes and Phyllis did impersonations of Peggy Lee Judy Garland Pearl Bailey and Ethel Merman. Kamens Printing Co paperback

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Camden County Music Fair Haddonfield N.J. 1962 Season Presenting Bob Cummings in Tunnel of Love

196283809Philadelphia: Kamens Printing 1962. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 16 pages including covers. Illustrations black and white only. The program includes Who's Who in the Cast Bob Cummings was the star along with Brenda Vaccaro Program page with major cast and crew listed Cast of Characters in order of appearance and Camden County Music Fair administrative and production staff and program credits. There are local advertisements throughout. A resident recalled that in 1957 the facility was known as the Camden County Music Circus. In approximately 1959 it was taken over by the Guber Ford and Gross organization and renamed the Camden County Music Fair. The Camden County Music Fair was held at an outdoor amphitheatre "in-the-round" from May thru Sept. every year. First opened in 1961. It was under a large 3-pole tent providing seating for approx. 2000 people per show. Hosted Broadway shows musicals and rock groups. Brenda Buell Vaccaro born November 18 1939 is an American stage television and film actress. She received one Academy Award nomination three Golden Globe Award nominations winning one four Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning one and three Tony Award nominations. Vaccaro's Broadway credits include The Affair 1962 Cactus Flower 1965 the musical How Now Dow Jones 1967 The Goodbye People 1968 and Jake's Women 1992. For her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough she gained an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings June 9 1910 - December 2 1990 was an American film and television actor known mainly for his roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones 1941 and Princess O'Rourke 1943 but who was also effective in dramatic films especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers Saboteur 1942 and Dial M for Murder 1954. He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8 1960 he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries. His first film for Universal Three Smart Girls Grow Up 1939 was a big success and in March 1939 Universal took up their options on the actor. The film was directed by Henry Koster who called Cummings "brilliant wonderful. I made five pictures with him. I thought he was the best leading man I ever worked with. He had that marvelous comedy talent and also a romantic quality." Reviewing the film the New York Times said Cummings "displays a really astonishing talent for light comedy. Cummings supported Basil Rathbone and Victor McLaglen in Rio 1939 then was borrowed by 20th Century Fox to romance Sonia Henie in Everything Happens at Night 1939. At Universal he had a key role in Charlie McCarthy Detective 1939 then was borrowed by MGM to play the lead in a B movie with Laraine Day And One Was Beautiful 1940. Back at Universal Cummings was the romantic male lead in a comedy Private Affairs 1940; then he romanced Durbin again in Spring Parade 1940. Cummings made his mark in the CBS Radio network's dramatic serial titled Those We Love which ran from 1938 to 1945. He also played the role of David Adair in the serial drama Those We Love opposite Richard Cromwell Francis X. Bushman and Nan Grey. In December 1941 Cummings joined the fledgling Civil Air Patrol an organization of citizens and pilots interested in helping support the U.S. war effort. In February 1942 he helped establish Squadron 918-4 located in Glendale California at the Grand Central Air Terminal becoming its first commanding officer. In 1954 Cummings appeared in Twelve Angry Men an original TV play for Westinghouse Studio One written by Reginald Rose and directed by Franklin Schaffner alongside actors including Franchot Tone and Edward Arnold. Cummings played Juror Number Eight the role taken by Henry Fonda in the feature-film adaptation. Cummings's performance earned him the 1955 Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance. In July 1954 Cummings formed his own independent film production company Laurel Productions Incorporated. The company's name had several affiliations to Cummings: his youngest daughter was named Laurel Ann Cummings; the street he and his family lived on was named Laurel Way; his wife's grandmother's name was Laurel; and finally the fact that Laurel & Hardy had given Cummings his film debut back in 1933. His wife Mary Elliott was appointed president of Laurel Productions.90 In July 1954 Cummings filmed the pilot for his television show The Bob Cummings Show and would go on to produce 173 episodes. During the 1970s for over 10 years Cummings traveled the US performing in dinner theaters and short stints in plays while living in an Airstream travel trailer. Kamens Printing paperback

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Camden County Music Fair Haddonfield N.J. 1961 Season Presenting Monique van Vooren in Destry Rides Again also starring Jimmy Dean

196183807Philadelphia: Kamens Printing 1961. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 16 pages including covers. Illustrations black and white only. Includes Who's Who in the Cast Monique van Vooren was the star along with Jimmy Dean Earl Hammond Lulu Bates William Griffis and Eulabelle Moore Program page with major cast and crew listed Cast of Characters in order of appearance Scenes Musical Numbers and Camden County Music Fair administrative and production staff and program credits. There are local advertisements throughout. A resident recalled that in 1957 the facility was known as the Camden County Music Circus. In approximately 1959 it was taken over by the Guber Ford and Gross organization and renamed the Camden County Music Fair. The Camden County Music Fair was held at an outdoor amphitheatre "in-the-round" from May thru Sept. every year. First opened in 1961. It was under a large 3-pole tent providing seating for approx. 2000 people per show. Hosted Broadway shows musicals and rock groups. Monique van Vooren March 25 1927 - January 25 2020 was a Belgian-American actress and dancer. Born in Brussels to George Bronz or Bronze and Louise van Vooren Monique was a champion skater and a beauty queen in Belgium. She reportedly studied philosophy and languages and learned to speak English Italian French German Spanish and Dutch. "I can also read Greek and Latin" she stated. Her first visit to the United States apparently took place in 1946 at age 19 with the married name "Jakobson" and listed as a "housewife". Her second husband was Kurt or Curt Henry Pfenniger. Her third husband was New York businessman Gerard Walter Purcell. The couple were married from 1958 until Purcell's death in 2002. On Broadway Van Vooren played in John Murray Anderson's Almanac 1953-54 and Man on the Moon 1975. In the 1960s Van Vooren starred in summer stock theatre productions in the United States. Van Vooren recorded an album Mink in HiFi for RCA Victor. In 1956 she signed a contract with Request Records. In 1983 Signet published Night Sanctuary written by Van Vooren. She described the book as being about "the dark side of people. Jimmy Ray Dean August 10 1928 - June 13 2010 was an American country music singer television host actor and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV commercials. He was a distant cousin of actor James Dean. He became a national television personality starting on CBS in 1957. He rose to fame for his 1961 country music crossover hit into rock and roll with "Big Bad John" and his 1963 television series The Jimmy Dean Show which gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure. His acting career included appearing in the early seasons in the Daniel Boone TV series as the sidekick of the famous frontiersman played by star Fess Parker. Later he was on the big screen in a supporting role as billionaire Willard Whyte in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever 1971 starring Sean Connery. He was nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010 though died before his induction that year. Erwin Saul Hamburger June 16 1921 - May 19 2002 known professionally as Earl Hammond was an American actor who has appeared in several films and television series. Eulabelle Moore 1903 - 1964 was an American actress who had roles in Broadway productions and had a role in the film The Horror of Party Beach. Moore had roles in 15 Broadway productions including A Streetcar Named Desire 1950 The Male Animal 1952 and Great Day in the Morning 1962. She was originally part of the cast of The Fundamental George as a maid but she could not perform because she was ill. Helen Bonfils took over the role but in blackface. John Gerstad stated "She never was very good certainly not comparable with Eulabelle who is an accomplished comedy actress". Moore has received other positive reception from her Broadway roles. In a review of Danger - Men Working The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote "Eulabelle Moore won applause as the janitress who sees all and tells all of the goings-on in an apartment house". Gladys March in an Asbury Park Press review of Here Today wrote "And Eulabelle Moore as Gertude evokes many of the deep belly-laughs from her hearty portrayal of the maid" Kamens Printing paperback

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Camden County Music Fair Haddonfield N.J. 1961 Season Presenting Julie Newmar in DAMN YANKEES July 31st thru Aug. 5th

196183805Philadelphia: Kamens Printing 1961. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 16 pages including covers. Illustrations black and white only. Includes Who's Who in the Cast Julie Newmar was the star which also included Johnny Haymer Program page with major cast and crew listed Cast of Characters in order of appearance Sequence of Scenes Musical Numbers and Camden County Music Fair administrative and production staff and program credits. There are local advertisements throughout. Eye-catching full page advertisement on the back cover of the program. A resident recalled that in 1957 the facility was known as the Camden County Music Circus. In approximately 1959 it was taken over by the Guber Ford and Gross organization and renamed the Camden County Music Fair. The Camden County Music Fair was held at an outdoor amphitheatre "in-the-round" from May thru Sept. every year. First opened in 1961. It was under a large 3-pole tent providing seating for approx. 2000 people per show. Hosted Broadway shows musicals and rock groups. Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington D.C. during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is based on Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. The show ran for 1019 performances in its original Broadway production. Julie Newmar born Julia Chalene Newmeyer August 16 1933 is an American actress dancer and singer known for a variety of stage screen and television roles as well as a writer lingerie inventor and real-estate mogul. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round and reprised the role in the 1961 film version. In the 1960s she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series Batman 1966-1967. Her other stage credits include the Ziegfeld Follies in 1956 Lola in Damn Yankees! in 1961 and Irma in Irma la Douce in 1965 in regional productions. Newmar appeared in the music video for George Michael's 1992 single "Too Funky" and had a cameo as herself in the 1995 film To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Her voice work includes the animated feature films Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders 2016 and Batman vs. Two-Face 2017 where she reprised her role as Catwoman 50 years after the original television series. Newmar had first appeared on Broadway in 1955 in Silk Stockings which starred Hildegarde Neff and Don Ameche. She later appeared on stage with Joel Grey in the national tour of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off and as Lola in Damn Yankees! and Irma in Irma La Douce. Newmar's fame stems mainly from her television appearances. Her statuesque form and height made her a larger-than-life sex symbol most often cast as a temptress or Amazonian beauty including an early appearance in sexy maid costume on The Phil Silvers Show. She starred as Rhoda the Robot on the television series My Living Doll 1964-1965 and is known for her recurring role on the 1960s television series Batman as the villainess Catwoman. In the 1970s Newmar received two U.S. patents for pantyhose and one for a brassiere. The pantyhose were described as having "cheeky derriere relief" and promoted under the name "Nudemar." The brassiere was described as "nearly invisible" and in the style of Marilyn Monroe. Haymer Lionel Flieg January 19 1920 - November 18 1989 known professionally as Johnny Haymer was an American actor known for his role as Staff Sergeant Zelmo Zale a recurring character in the television series MASH. He appeared in a 1965 episode of The Cara Williams Show with Cara Williams and was an announcer for the Nipsey Russell-hosted game show Your Number's Up; in the mid-1980s he provided his voice for the characters Swindle Vortex Highbrow and Caliburst in The Transformers. He played Walter Pinkerton from 1982-83 on Madame's Place and appeared in the penultimate episode of the original Star Trek series "All Our Yesterdays". Haymer additionally made brief television appearances in other popular series including The Incredible Hulk Season 2 episode fourteen "Haunted" a police officer on The Facts of Life episode "Under Pressure" in 1983 and as a commissioner on The Golden Girls episode "It's a Miserable Life" in 1986. Kamens Printing paperback

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