The Harlem Alhambra was a theater in Harlem, New York, built in 1905, that began as a vaudeville venue. The building still stands at 2108-2118 Adam Clayton...
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which she first sung in the Dixie to Broadway show in 1924. After an extended five-week tryout at the Harlem Alhambra, the Blackbirds opened on 28 May...
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1910 Alhambra Theatre of Variety, London Alhambra Theatre (El Paso, Texas), opened 1914 Alhambra Theatorium, Evansville, Indiana The Harlem Alhambra, Manhattan...
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Edna Lewis Thomas (category Harlem Renaissance)
theater, and was a member of the Alhambra Players and the Harlem Experimental Theatre. She only appeared on screen once, in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named...
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John Henry Hammond (category Burials at the Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum)
said that he heard Bessie Smith perform at The Harlem Alhambra, but her biographer disagrees about the dates. The summer after graduating from Hotchkiss in...
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down in the orchestra. By 1925, Alhambra Theater catered to its Black audience members. One of its highlights was when the theater held a Harlem premiere...
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for his drinking habits. On the week of August 8, 1928, Chenault made his debut appearance on the stage of the Harlem Alhambra, alongside Billy Andrews and...
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B. F. Keith Circuit (category Movie theatre chains in the United States)
Theater, New York City Gotham Theater, New York City The Harlem Alhambra, New York City Harlem Opera House, New York City Hippodrome Theater, Cleveland...
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This article lists people from Alhambra, California. Sasha Renée Pérez, California State Senator and Former Alhambra Mayor Hank Aguirre, baseball player...
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Cross-dressing ball (section The Empire)
the Webster Hall, and the Madison Square Garden, the Astor Hotel, the Manhattan Casino (later called Rockland Palace), The Harlem Alhambra, and the Savoy...
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performed first at The Harlem Alhambra in Harlem, New York, before moving overseas to star in the Les Ambassadeurs in Paris, the Casino-Kursaal in Ostend...
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African-American musical theater (category Musical theatre in the United States)
successful six week run at The Harlem Alhambra in Harlem, New York, before moving overseas to star in the Les Ambassadeurs in Paris, the Casino-Kursaal in Ostend...
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at The Harlem Alhambra. In April 1937, she appeared supporting Ella Fitzgerald and the Chick Webb Orchestra during their one-week engagement at the Apollo...
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Alhambra's location as 126th St and 7th Ave, making it likely to be the Harlem Alhambra, which started as a vaudeville theatre. Montreal Gazette, January...
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The Victoria Theater was a theater located on 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in 1917 by Thomas...
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The Stone: 3 Village Gate Village Vanguard: 3 Harlem Alhambra Apollo Theater, generally prior to the 1960s Baby Grand Cotton Club Lenox Lounge Lincoln...
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John Kirby (musician) (category The Chocolate Dandies members)
Smith's Society Band at Harlem's Alhambra Ballroom. Kirby joined the Fletcher Henderson orchestra as a tuba player in 1930. In the early 1930s, he performed...
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Cotton Club Boys (chorus line) (category Harlem Renaissance)
the interim, some of the entertainers from the original club performed in productions billed as the "Cotton Club Revue" at the Harlem Alhambra. The last...
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Edna Mae Harris (category People from Harlem)
was film actress in the late 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in films featuring mostly African–American casts. Born in Harlem, Harris parents were Sam...
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refurbishing of galleries and stage) Hammerstein's Olympia (1895) Harlem Alhambra (1905) Manhattan Opera House (1906) Gayety Theater (Baltimore) (1906) in...
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Rico Harris (category Sportspeople from Alhambra, California)
some International Basketball League teams, and later with the Harlem Globetrotters. The eldest of four children born to a former Idaho State star and...
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Lillian Yarbo (category People from Harlem)
unclear. The 'Real' Billie By her early 20s, Yarbo, credited prior to October 1928 as Yarbough, was a rising star, both in Harlem night spots and on the Broadway...
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mother. The family lived across the street from the Alhambra Theater so Forsyne would watch shows from the fire escape, she recalled in an article in 1953...
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As her reputation grew, she played in many clubs, including the Mexico's and the Alhambra Bar and Grill, where she met Charles Linton, a vocalist who...
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Percy Verwayne (category Guyanese emigrants to the United States)
Guardian Media Group. The Guardian. Retrieved March 31, 2021. "VERWAYNE, PERCY". The Caribbean Memory Project. "At the Alhambra Theatre". The New York Age. December...
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Duke Ellington (redirect from The Duke Ellington Orchestra)
profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington...
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who inhabited Sugar Hill in Harlem. The tune is in AABA form, in the key of C, with each section being a lyric couplet. (The Ellington band's version begins...
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Brian Knobbs (section The Nasty Boys (1986–1997))
wrestling at the New Alhambra Arena in Philadelphia for Pro Wrestling Unplugged on June 16, 2007. On November 20, 2007, Knobbs and Sags reformed as The Nasty...
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"Echoes of Harlem", also known as "Cootie's Concerto", is a 1936 composition by Duke Ellington. A piece with a jazz blues sound in F minor with an ostinato...
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The following is a list of communities in the United States where the English language is not the majority language spoken at home according to data from...
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