The Cotton Club presents Cotton Club parade [program].

Record ID: 
436600
Title: 
The Cotton Club presents Cotton Club parade [program].
Credit Line: 
James Fuld Collection.
Notes: 

Title from first page of program.
"Second edition / book by Irving Mills / lyrics and music by Duke Ellington, Reginald Forsythe, and Razaf, John Redmond, Lee David, Lee Wainer, Lupin Fein ..."--first page of program.
Program for the "second edition" of the downtown Cotton Club Parade revue, running March 14-June 13, 1937 with Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra and featuring Ethel Waters, Ivy Anderson, the Nicholas Brothers, and George Dewey Washington.
"Program 25 cts"--front cover.
At head of first page: The world famous Cotton Club Broadway & 48th St., N.Y.C ... Herman Stark, Director.
Program features full-page write-ups of the revue's headline performers illustrated with portrait photographs, as well as black and white photo portraits of the Cotton Club Girls.
Through June 15, 1937. The Cotton Club moved from Harlem to Broadway and 48th Street, near Times Square.

Provenance: 

James Fuld.

Associated names: 

Simon, Harold K., 1910-1959, illustrator.
Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.

Music Collection: