89 album pages, each with four photographs per page, depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas," were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed around 1930. There is also one photograph of the show "Bughouse," dating from approximately 1933 (page 89). Identified photographers consist of Harry Wenger and Paralta of Los Angeles. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 4 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances. Page titles based on handwritten identifications on photograph versos and a typescript inventory at the beginning of the album; album dates based on the dates of references to the Ideas in the Los Angeles Times and in issues of Fanchon & Marco's press books distributed as supplements first to "Now" and later "The Idea" magazines. The page numbers reflect their original order in the binder.
Actors Choreography Dance--Production and direction Dancers Fanchon & Marco Theaters--California--Los Angeles Theater--Production and direction Theatrical productions Vaudeville Photographs. (aat)
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