Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Upton, Thomas F.

Description

1. 1 v. : ill., ports.; 30 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Thomas F. Upton.

Subject

1. Mordkin Ballet Company
2. Mordkin, Mikhail, 1881-1944
3. Dancers > Scrapbooks
4. World War, 1939-1945 > Dance and the war
5. United Service Organizations (U.S.)
6. Scrapbooks
7. Foxhole Ballet (Company)
8. Upton, Anitra

Call number

1. *MGZRS 94-2675

Note

1. On cover: The story of the Foxhole Ballet as told through the biography of Anitra Upton.
2. Compiled by the dancer's husband, Thomas F. Upton, for their children.
3. Documentation on Anitra Upton (1911-1988), a dancer with the Mordkin Ballet (1937-1939) and the Foxhole Ballet (1944-1945), and a performer for musical theatre in I married an angel, Louisiana purchase, and By Jupiter (1939-1943). She later taught dance locally in Forest Hills Gardens, New York. Scrapbook contains personal papers, personal and professional photographs, theatrical contracts, some programs and obituaries, and posters, flyers, and tour itinerary for the Foxhole Ballet. Covers chiefly her professional life, 1937-1945.

Author

1. Upton, Anitra.

Title

1. Scrapbook.

Imprint

1. 1911-1988.

Connect to:

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Local subject

1. World War, 1939-1945 -- Dance and the war.

Added author

1. Upton, Thomas F.

Research call number

1. *MGZRS 94-2675