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Scope and Content Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on Ethnic Dance Arts, Inc.stationery. Hughes talks about her heavy teaching schedule and that dancers just cannot work together, that it "is useless to hope that common good will ever replace professional jealousy." She has decided that when she leaves this world she would like to find Heaven like a rolling country inhabited only by animals; that she doesn't want to see any people for several centuries "and no...

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Hughes to Miller. Letter is missing from the envelope, unless it is one of the partially dated or undated ones below. Attached to the envelope is a color snapshot of two dogs. Envelope and photo.

Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection consists predominantly of theater, cabaret, opera, and movie programs, 1929-1937, from European German-speaking countries along with a small number from New York City and Prague, Czechoslovakia. The largest number is from Berlin, but other German towns, as well as Vienna and Zurich, are represented. Also included is a small number of German film magazines. The programs reflect cultural life in both the last years of the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi...

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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten note on plain paper. Hughes thanks Miller for his check and says that she has been busy getting out flyers [for the St. Denis Award for Creative Choreography in the ethnic field competition]. 1 leaf. Flyer attached. Envelope included.

Scope and Content From the Series: Series contains video recordings of performances, rehearsals, workshops, public service announcements, commercials, workshops, and repertoire selections from the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company and other dance groups and speeches, interviews, discussions, workshops, and demonstrations by its founder and others. The dates of the materials range from the mid-1960s until the Company’s closing in 1997, and are recorded in a variety of formats, including 8mm reel-to-reel film, more recent...

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Series contains black and white and color photographs, slides and negative film that document the repertoire of the Lewitzky Dance Company and the career of Bella Lewitzky.

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Walter W. Kolar to Miller. Typed letter on stationery from Duquesne University Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Arts. Kolar tells Miller that his name was given to him by La Meri who donated much of her collections to their Library/Museum/Archives. Kolar invites Miller to possibly donate collections likewise and says he is enclosing some material that explains the story of the Tamburitzans. 1 leaf.

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Sub-series contains the Company's public relations files, which include press releases, clippings, publicity materials, the graphic layouts for the production of publicity materials and tour notes and itineraries.

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Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection consists chiefly of materials which Armond Fields used or created during the course of his research into American vaudeville and early theatre. There are copies of photographs and a few originals of some of the stars about whom he wrote, as well as other material related to the Vaudeville era: sheet music, theatre programs, newspapers, etc. Also included in the collection are all Fields' research notes for his many books as well as the drafts of the manuscripts. In...