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    Harlem Opera House was an opera house located at 211 West 125th Street, in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Designed...
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    team. Oscar Hammerstein I opened the Harlem Opera House on East 125th Street in 1889. By 1893, even row houses did not suffice to meet the growing population...
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    the development of stately houses, grand avenues, and world-class amenities such as the Polo Grounds and the Harlem Opera House. During the enormous influx...
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  • stage in Harlem at places like Connie's Inn, Dickie Wells's Shim Sham Club, the 101 Ranch, the LaFayette Theatre, and the Harlem Opera House. At the end...
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    the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Opera House. Later that year, she was introduced to drummer and bandleader Chick...
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  • Adelaide Hall (category Harlem Renaissance)
    York to appear in a music revue produced by Leonard Harper at the Harlem Opera House. A journalist from the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper who published...
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    American version was translated by Mildred Aldrich and staged at the Harlem Opera House. A respectable middle-class family discover that their adult son has...
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    in theaters and restaurants, including the Strand theater and the Harlem Opera House, with a schedule that often had him playing five shows a day.: 27 ...
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    Edition; Third Printing, ISBN 9780517167038 Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3...
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    others. In 1897 Herne played Nathaniel Berry in Shore Acres at the Harlem Opera House. It was the sixth consecutive season that he portrayed this character...
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  • Minsky's became the standard bearer for stock burlesque. In Harlem, they leased the Harlem Opera House 1924, then Hurtig and Seamon's Apollo in 1928 (later the...
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    Apollo Theater (category Theatres in Harlem)
    Harlem Opera House's operator, Duane Theater Corporation. Ralph Cooper was hired as the emcee the same year. After Cohen died in late 1935, the Opera...
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    The Harlem Gospel Choir is an American gospel choir based in Harlem, New York. It is one of the United States's most prominent gospel choirs. The company...
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    Oscar Hammerstein I (category American male opera composers)
    mid-rib from tobacco leaves. Hammerstein built his first theater, the Harlem Opera House, on 125th Street in 1889, along with 50 housing developments. His...
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    1947. Fletcher Henderson played it in 1934 in the Harlem Opera House as the "national anthem of Harlem". "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" is a song from...
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  • originated by African-American dancers at the Apollo Theater and Harlem Opera House. The Dunhill Trio at IMDb Call Me Mister at IMDb "[Daily Post] The...
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    1947. Fletcher Henderson played it in 1934 in the Harlem Opera House as the "national anthem of Harlem". "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" is a song from...
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  • conceivably be either a first or a last name. His solo debut was at the Harlem Opera House in 1919. Barbette performed trapeze and wire stunts in full drag,...
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    August. She performed in a comedy entitled A Gay Deceiver at the Harlem Opera House, 211 West 125th Street, in February 1898. In December 1899 Mills joined...
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  • technique, Coles returned to New York City in 1934 and performed at the Harlem Opera House and Apollo Theater. When practicing at Joe Price's acrobatics studio...
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  • the “Swing Era”. Ella Fitzgerald won a one-week performance at the Harlem Opera House. January 31 – Edwin Swayze, American jazz trumpeter and composer (born...
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  • heavily in New York City, including at the Lafayette Theatre, the Harlem Opera House, and the Apollo Theatre. A version of the Joy Boys would tour, featuring...
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  • Voodoo is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Harry Lawrence Freeman. A product of the Harlem Renaissance, it was first performed with piano...
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    society like the one he envisioned, Clemmons decided to create one: The Harlem Spiritual Ensemble was dedicated to preserving the American Negro spiritual...
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  • Sultan of Sulu; touring in that show to Wallack's Theatre (1903), the Harlem Opera House (1903), and Chicago's Studebaker Theater (1904). With fellow The Sultan...
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    New York's Union Square Theatre on May 14, 1889, and moved to the Harlem Opera House later that same year. Prouty was a comedic Maine yankee tavern keeper...
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    New York City Gotham Theater, New York City The Harlem Alhambra, New York City Harlem Opera House, New York City Hippodrome Theater, Cleveland Jersey...
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    California in March. She danced at Keith & Proctor's Harlem Opera House at 125th Street in Harlem under the watchful eye of a New York City police lieutenant...
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  • March 1933 In the Elida Webb Show at Harlem Opera House, July 1934 In the Battle of Revues at the Harlem Opera House, July 1934 At the Apollo Theater, September...
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    William Grant Still (category Harlem Renaissance)
    of the Harlem Renaissance. Often referred to as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers," Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced...
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