Archive for the 'theatrical producers' Category
Some Much Needed Theatrical Distraction
• March 28, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, Christopher DeNoon, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, donations, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Haiti, History Department, leftist artists, library donors, Living Newspaper, Macbeth, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, playbills, political art, posters, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff, WPA
Tags: Albert Carman, America & Movies: Great Depression & New Deal Era in Film and History, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Broadway, bureaucracy, bureaucrats, Cartoonists, cartoons, CCC camps, Cinema, coronavirus, costume designers, covid 19, Democrats, Department of Amusements, directors, Dixiecrats, Elmer Rice, equal pay, escapism, Ethiopia, federal funding of the arts, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), film courses, Fontana Dam, foreshadowing, Great Depression, Haile Selassie, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), Herb Kruckman, Hollywood, Hydroelectric dams, Integration, John Houseman, Laurence Cromwell (fictitious character), Living Newspaper, Macbeth, Moscow Art Theatre, Nat Karson, Negro unit (Federal Theatre Project), Orson Welles, Power (Federal Theatre Play), remote teaching, RUR (marionette theatre), Shakespeare, slums, stagehands, Stand Up and Cheer (film : 1934), syphilis, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), theatre, theatre companies, theatrical performers, unions, Voodoo Macbeth (Federal Theatre Project), Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA, YouTube Parties, Zoom
In Praise of Folies: A Wolfsonian Homage to the Folies Bergère
• November 30, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, Cuba, dance, erotic art, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., playbills, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Place aux Jeunes", burlesque, dance halls, Edouard Manet, Folies Bergere, Havana (Cuba), Henri de Touluse-Lautrec, Josephine Baker, light opera, musical revues, nude revues, pantomime, Paris (France), Pre-Castro Cuba, striptease, theatrical venues, Vaudeville
Havana, Cuba, Yesterday and Today
• August 8, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, American architects, architects, architecture, collectors, Communism, Cuba, curators, donations, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, hotels, library donors, memorabilia, museums, photography, postcards, prohibition, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, World War I, WWI
Tags: Aldo Gamba (sculptor: 1881-1944?), Alica Alonso Grand Theater (Havana), Art Deco office buildings, Bacardi headquarters (Havana), Cabarets, Capitol building, Casinos, Cuba, El Capitolio, El Malecon, El Morro Castle (Havana), El Prado (Habana), Fountains, Gran Casino Nacional, Habana, Havana (Cuba), Hotel Inglaterra (Havana), Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Hotel Plaza (Havana), Hotels, Marianao (Cuba), Martin Fox, Max Borges Jr. (architect), Prohibition, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Roderico Neyra, San Souci (Nightclub), Schultz and Weaver (architectural firm), sculpture, Tropicana (Nightclub), Vicki Gold Levi Collection
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY TRIBUTE TO SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK (APRIL 23, 1928-FEBRUARY 10, 2014)
• February 11, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Christopher DeNoon, circuses, donations, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, Florida International University, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, History Department, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, WPA
Tags: "Baby Take a Bow" (song and dance number), America and Movies, Aunt Jemima, Child stars, Cinema, Entertainers, Fear, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Frank Mitchell, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House (film), Jack Durant, Lawrence Cromwell (fictional character), New Deal America, obituaries, Secretary of Amusement, Shirley Temple Black (1928-2014), Silver screen, Stand Up and Cheer (film : 1934), Stepin Fetchit, Tap-dancing, Tess Gardella, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, U.S. Ambassadors, Vaudeville, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
CIVIL RIGHTS DISPLAY FOR BROWNSVILLE STUDENT VISITORS
• January 21, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Great Depression, Joe Louis, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, programs, propaganda posters, racism, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, veterans, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1919, African American history, African-Americans, Anti-lynching campaign, athletes, Brownsville Middle School, civil rights, civil rights activists, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Federal Arts Project, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Jesse Owens (1913-1980), Joe Louis, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, N.A.A.C.P., race riots, racial stereotypes, recruiting posters, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, W.E.B. Du Bois, Woodrow Wilson
COMMUNIST AGITATION, LABOR STRIFE, AND NEW DEAL LEGISLATION: SOME RECENT ACQUISITIONS
• November 19, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, Florida International University, Great Depression, John Heartfield (1891-1968), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Popular Front, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, The Bonus March, theatrical producers, veterans, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Bonus Army, Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), Class struggle, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), CPUSA, Daily Worker, demonstrations, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Farm Security Administration photographs, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Five Year Plan, Fred Ellis (1885-1965), FSA, FTP, Gabriel Over the White House (film), General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Great Depression, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Harry Bridges (1901-1990), Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), HUAC, I Married a Communist (film), Labor unions, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Lydia Gibson (1891-1964), marches, Merry Wives of Windsor (FTP production), Mission to Moscow (film), New Deal America, New Pioneers, occupy Washington, Photomontage, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Stalingrad, strikes, The Woman on Pier 13 (film), Union leaders, violence, Walter W. Waters (1898-1959), Yanks for Stalin (documentary film), youth movements
