114 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 from approximately 1924 to 1928. Identified photographers include Harry Wenger and Weaver of Los Angeles and H.W. Steward of San Francisco. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 1 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances. Page titles chiefly 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, as well as references to Fanchon and Marco shows performed in San Francisco in 1924 issues of the Pacific Coast Musical Review, for some of the shows appearing on later pages in the volume. 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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