Lot 38: 16 Pcs VAUDEVILLE stars 1900 BROADWAY theater Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 9.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, September 05, 2008 End Time Friday, September 12, 2008 Location Tucson, Arizona See more about 'Lot 38: 16 Pcs VAUDEVILLE stars 1900 BROADWAY theater' Description    WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND INSURANCE AS WE WILL NOT BEAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOST, BROKEN OR STOLEN ITEMS!! PLEASE READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION BEFORE BIDDING.WE SELL TO CANADA, USA, EUROPE, AUSTRALIA.   TO SAVE ANY OF THESE PICTURES FOR YOUR RECORDS CLICK AND HOLD ON THE PHOTO AND SAVE IT TO YOUR COMPUTER. ALL PICTURES WILL BE REMOVED AS SOON AS THE AUCTION ENDS.  ANY QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE BIDDING   * *     * *   *     *     * * 16 PIECE LOT OF GREAT STARS OF VAUDEVILLE 1910-1925       WE TAKE PAYPAL IN U.S. DOLLARS, AND MONEY ORDERSAND IF YOUR FEEDBACK EXCEEDS 99.4 WE'LL ALSO TAKE YOUR PERSONAL CHECK,   We can send this for $4.00 by MEDIA RATE in the USA. All music is in GOOD TO VERY GOOD CONDITION unless otherwise marked.   1- JUST LIKE A BUTTERFLY THAT'S CAUGHT IN THE RAIN 1927 - by Mort Dixon, Harry Woods. Cover photo BLOSSOM SEELEY. Blossom Seeley (born Minnie Guyer, 1891 in San Francisco, California, USA - died 1974 in New York City) was a singer and entertainer.Seeley made a series of solo records in the 1920s. She was one half of the Vaudeville team of Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields. Their lives were made into a famous movie, Somebody Loves Me (1952) with Betty Hutton and Ralph Meeker.Blossom was also married to and performed with baseball hall-of-famer Rube Marquard. Blossom was, like Sophie Tucker, one of the "last of the red hot mamas" and possessed a voice with a tremendous throb and wail in it.   2- AFTER ALL 1919 - J. Will Callahan, Lee S. Roberts. Cover MARGUERITE SYLVA. FAIRLY POOR CONDITION, rather fragile with some chipping and edge wear. American prima donna opera singer who won raves performing her Carmen, especially with Enrico Caruso. She had begun as a singer of comic opera but her powerful voice made her an icon of her age who could perform in vaudeville, comic opera and opera mixing pop and operatic music.   3- TWO LOVES 1931 - Geoerge Koger, H. Varna, J. P. Murray, Barry Trivers, Vincent Scott. Also known as J'AI DEUX AMOURS / I HAVE TWO LOVES. Cover IRENE BORDONI. Irène Bordoni ( 1895 -  1953) was a singer and a Broadway theatre and film actress. Born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France from Italian family she had been a child actor, performing in Paris on stage and in silent films for a few years when she came to the United States in 1912. At age seventeen, she made her Broadway debut in a ShuberT brothers production of Broadway to Paris at the Winter Garden Theatre. She also starred in Naughty Cinderella (1925) by Avery Hopwood.Noted for her seductive brown eyes and coquettish personality, Irène Bordoni is probably best remembered from musical theatre as the star of the 1928 Cole Porter musical Paris that featured the song "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" which became Porter's first big success.   4- ROLLING STONES ALL COME ROLLING HOME AGAIN 1916 - Edgar Leslie, Archie Gottler. Covere ANNA CHANDLER. Anna Chandler ( 1884, Pennsylvania - d. 1957, El Sereno, California was a vaudeville actress and singer who had a long and successful career in the teens, including introducing this hit tune.   5- HONOLULU EYES 1921 - Howard Johnson, Violinsky. Cover THE AVON COMEDY FOUR in THE PASSING SHOW OF 1919. Smith and Dale were a famous U.S. vaudeville comedy team. The two performed together for more than 70 years. Joe Smith (born Joseph Sultzer in 1884) and Charlie Dale (born Charles Marks 1885) grew up in the Jewish ghettos of New York City. Many of the famous comic performers of vaudeville, radio and movies came from the same place and the same era, including Gallagher and Shean, George Burns, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel and The Marx Brothers. Sultzer and Marks met as teenagers in 1898 and formed a partnership. They named their act "Smith and Dale" because a local printer gave them a good deal on business cards reading "Smith and Dale" (intended for a vaudeville team that had dissolved). Joe Sultzer became Joe Smith, and Charlie Marks became Charlie Dale.By 1902 they joined two singing comedians, Irving Kaufman (later a popular singer) and Harry Godwin in a team known as The Avon Comedy Four. The act became one of the most successful comedy turns in vaudeville. For over 15 years they were top-of-the-bill performers on Broadway and appeared in a 1916 show, Why Worry? By 1919, the act had run its course, and the Avon Comedy Four broke up. Smith and Dale took up where the foursome left off, playing Broadway and vaudeville (including the Palace Theatre, considered the pinnacle of stage venues). Both used a heavy Jewish dialect, with Smith speaking in a deep, pessimistic voice and Dale in a high, wheedling tenor.   6- KISS ME, MY HONEY, KISS ME 1910 - Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder. Coer LITTLE AMY BUTLER. Talk about one hit wonders. This was a huge hit but the chunky short singer was out of the limelight by 1911!   7- WHEN THE BLACK SHEEP RETURNS TO THE FOLD 1916 - Irving Berlin. Cover BELLE BAKER. Belle Baker ( 1893, New York CitY, New York - 1957, Los AngeleS, California) was an American singer and actress. Born Bella Becker, she rose to fame as a vaudeville vocalist, appearing on Broadway and in nightclubs, films, radio and television.In the early 1920s, when she was well known as The Ragtime Singer, Baker took part in a Baltimore song competition with Catherine Calvert, the Hamilton Sisters (Pearl and Violet) and Jessie Fordyce. She was the first artist to record "All of Me," one of the most recorded songs of its era, and she was also the first person in the United States to do a radio broadcast from a moving train.In 1926, Baker had the title role in Broadway's Betsy. She introduced Irving Berlin's "Blues Skies" in the Florenz Ziegfeld production.   8- EVERYBODY WORKS BUT FATHER 1905 - Jean Havez. Cover LEW DOCKSTADER AND HIS GREAT MINSTREL COMPANY. Although minstrel theater survived into the twentieth century, its heyday can be traced from the 1840s to the 1890s. This poster advertises the minstrel team of George H. Primrose (b. 1852) and Lew Dockstader (1856B1924). In this sheet music, Dockstader appears in what had become the trademark guise of the minstrel stage: trick shoes, oversize pants and coat, tall hat, and black-face. Dockstader's success turned in part on his political monologues and his caricatures and imitations of political figures like Theodore Roosevelt. Working to keep his material updated, Dockstader injected his stage show with current local and national themes. You can hear Dockstader actually singing this song on YouTube right now!! Separated spine.   9- WHAT DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THOSE EYES AT ME FOR WHEN THEY DON'T MEAN WHAT THEY SAY? 1916 - Joe McCarthy, Howard Johnson, James V. Monaco. Cover ANNA HELD, HENRY LEWIS in FOLLOW ME. Helene Anna Held (1872 – 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. Her vivacious and animated personality proved popular, and her career as a stage performer began to gain momentum. She was soon known for her risque songs, flirtatious nature and willingness to show her legs on stage. Around this time, she became the wife of a much-older Uruguayan playboy, Maximo Carrera, with whom she had a daughter, Liane, who was born in 1895, shortly after their 1894 marriage, and who became an actress and producer, sometimes billed as Anna Held Jr. Touring through Europe she was appearing in London in 1896 when she met Florenz Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld asked her to return to New York City with him and she agreed. He set about creating a wave of public interest in her, by feeding stories about her to the American press. By the time Held and Ziegfeld arrived in New York, she was already the subject of intense public speculation. When she finally performed, the critics were dismissive of her, but the public liked her. Henry Lewis (Henry Levine really) was a popular comedian associated for a long time with Held's shows.   10- DRIP, DRIP, DRIP, WENT THE WATERFALL 1915 - Ballard MacDonald, Harry Carroll. Cover HARRY CARROLL, ANNA WHEATON (Mrs. Harry Carroll) in Vaudeville. Harry Carroll, a famous American songwriter, pianist and composer, was born on November 28, 1892 in Atlantic City and died December 26, 1962 in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania. He taught himself how to play the piano and began playing in movie houses before he finished grade school. After he graduated from high school, he moved to New York City where he worked as an arranger in Tin Pan Alley, and at night entertained at the Garden Café and accompanied various vaudeville shows.In 1912, Carroll was hired by the Schubert brothers' Winter Garden productions as a contract writer. He worked with Arthur Fields to produce his first hit, On the Mississippi. He wrote several Broadway stage scores including some popular favorites: I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (based on a section of Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin), By The Beautiful Sea and Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Harry married Anna Wheaton and together they had one child. Later he moved west to LA., and became involved in early movies. He served as the director of the ASCPA from 1914-1917. And in 1970, eight years after his death, Carroll was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.   11- I'LL COME SAILING HOME TO YOU A LONG WAY FROM BROADWAY 1917 - Stanley Murphy, Harry Carroll. Cover HARRY CARROLL   12- MARY, YOU'RE A LITTLE BIT OLD FASHIONED 1914 - Marion Sunshine, Henry I. Marshall. Cover CROSS AND JOSEPHINE.  This couple became very prominent doing a song and dance number in The Passing Show of 1913 and had been Broadway stars of dance and song since ca. 1910.   13- THE CURSE OF AN ACHING HEART 1913 - Al Piantadosi, Henry Fink. Cover EMMA CARUS. Emma Carus (died 1927) was a contralto singe from New York who was in the cast of the original Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her given name was Emma Carus EverallShe frequently sang in vaudeville and sometimes in Broadway features. One columnist described her as a sort of combination of Sophie Tucker and Fay Templeton with a little of Eva Tanguay and Eddie Foy thrown in for good measure. Separated spine.   14- JUST TRY TO PICTURE ME BACK HOME IN TENNESSEE 1915 - William Jerome, Walter Donaldson. Cover AL JOLSON. One of Jolson's numerous mega-hits. Al Jolson was the most famous vaudeville and early show performer of all and had an ego to match. He introduced Mammy, Sonny Boy and so many more hits. FAIR CONDITION.   15- THIS IS THE LIFE 1914 - Irving Berlin. Cover AL JOLSON   16- WHEN ALEXANDER TAKES HIS RAGTIME BAND TO FRANCE 1918 - Alfred Bryan, Cliff Hess, Edgar Leslie. Cover photo BELLE BAKER with cover art by Barbelle. FAIR CONDITION with major tear at upper left, otherwise fine.             Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!