Ida Roley collection
- Title
- Ida Roley collection, 1923-1963.
- Author
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. Please for assistance. | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 723 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- .4 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Ida Roley Collection consists of a scrapbook documenting the career of this entertainer, writings by her and other material.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Call number
- Sc MG 723
- Source (note)
- Eloise Trotman-Gray and Valgene Trotman Cropper
- Biography (note)
- Ida Roley was a coloratura soprano and actress whose performances include a role in the 1923 edition of Jimmie Cooper's Revue, a burlesque show comprised of approximately seventy cast members, both African American and white.
- Processing action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloged
- Author
- Roley, Ida.
- Title
- Ida Roley collection, 1923-1963.
- Biography
- Ida Roley was a coloratura soprano and actress whose performances include a role in the 1923 edition of Jimmie Cooper's Revue, a burlesque show comprised of approximately seventy cast members, both African American and white. The white owner, producer and actor, Jimmie Cooper, combined dancing, singing, jazz, comedy and black face in his company. The revue formed part of the circuit of the Columbia Amusement Company and performed in New York, Boston, London and Montreal. Roley also performed in "Shuffle Along" (1922), the play "The Conjur Man Dies," and was the lead singer in the choir of Lew Leslie's road company of "Blackbirds" (1929) in Paris, later performing as a soloist and doing song recitals. She also wrote a few short stories.
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- Research call number
- Sc MG 723