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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • This article lists people from Alhambra, California. Hank Aguirre, baseball player Duane Allen, football player Atlas, graffiti artist Jairo Avila Jr....
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Ellington at the Alhambra is a live album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded in 1958 at the Alhambra Theater, Paris...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • ISBN 978-0-415-93012-3. Williams, Iain Cameron, Underneath A Harlem Moon ... the Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall, Chapter 8. ISBN 0826458939. "Creole...
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    Harlem Jazz, 1930 is a compilation album of phonograph records assembled by Brunswick Records during the American Federation of Musicians strike, cataloguing...
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    vaudeville in 1927 with The Southland Revue. In 1928, he produced and starred in weekly shows at Harlem theatres such as the Alhambra. Moore wrote all of...
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  • "Drop Me Off in Harlem" is a 1933 song composed during the Harlem Renaissance composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Nick Kenny. A.H. Lawrence...
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    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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    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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