Genee Adeline (7 results)

No Binding. Condition: Good. Sized about 6.5 x 9 inches, overall very clean and bright, salvaged from a damaged issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Volume 44, No. 6, May, 1908.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Theater program. Small quarto. [44]pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Wrappers and a few pages with light creases, rear cover with abrasions, a large chip, and some remains of paper adhered to it, a few pages with chips and tears, very good. A program for the show "The Silver Star," featuring Adeline Genee, showing during the week beginning Monday, November 8, 1909. Filled with New York City advertisements.

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good MINUS. First Edition. HARDBACK IN JACKET. 25x15.5cm. 111 pages. 53 camera studies including 3 colour plates. Author inscription on the Title-Page. No other inscriptions. Flat pages. Clean & tight. Jacket has edge wear with loss at spine ends and several tears. Front flap is not price-clipped: 15s. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref dstp.

Condition: Good. Signed Post Card, 3.5" x 5.5", Very Good. Provenance: Collection of Signed Post Cards by British Stars of Stage and Screen from Mr. L. P. Schlarb, Kennington Park London.

In black and white on 34 x 23 cm shiny art paper. Possibly extracted from an unnamed periodical. Lightly aged and worn, and ruckled from being laid down on paper backing. Tiny chip lost at foot. Sixteen female figures are shown, in costumes representing newspapers from the 'Daily Mail' to 'The Sketch', and including 'Mdlle. Zangfretta as Fashion', around a central representation of a scene from the ballet, featuring Adeline Genée as the Liberty of the Press. Mark Edward Perugini, in his 'Art of Ballet' (1915), states of Genée that 'it was her performance as the Spirit of the "Liberty of the Press" in the famous Empire ballet, "The Press" (invented and designed by Mr. Wilhelm with the choreographic support of Mme. Lanner and music by Mons. Wenzel), on February 14th, 1898, that first marked her "and for many years to come" as a London "star." The ballet gave her scope for some wonderful and proved immensely popular. It was a novel idea, artistically carried out, and illustrated the history and power of the Fourth Estate. A number of charming coryphees were ingeniously attired as representatives of the various newspapers, boys' costumes indicating the morning and girls' the evening journals. The venerable Times was typified by a man in the guise of Father Time, with hour-glass and other symbols of his ancient office, and accompanied by a retinue. Mme. Cavallazzi represented Caxton, Father of the Printing Press; Mile. Zanfretta, the Spirit of Fashion; and there were typical costumes for The Standard, The Daily Telegraph, The Globe, The Daily Mail (then two years old! ), The Illustrated London News (who announced that she was " Established 1842 "), The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, The Lady's Pictorial, The Sketch, The Referee, and others too numerous to name. So popular did the ballet prove that this also ran for months, and it was not until October of the same year that a new production, " Alaska," was staged, the scenario of which was by Mr. Wilhelm, the choregraphy by Mme. Lanner, and music by Mons. Wenzel.' See Image.

Original program and flyer for a performance of February 19, 1913. Octavo. [8] pp. Original stapled self wrappers. Very faint crease to program. The flyer is smaller (5 1/2 x 7 inches) and is a 4-page bifolio with a cover photograph of Adeline Genee in her dance outfit. A nice little package.Adeline Genee was born in Denmark in 1878 (nee Anina Kirstina Margaret Petra Jensen) and by 1895 the principal dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. Subsequently, in 1896, she danced with the Berlin Royal Opera Ballet and the Munich Opera Ballet. By 1897 Adeline had moved to England where she performed at the Empire Theatre for years solidifying her reputation. In November 1907, Genee sailed to the USA to perform in The Soul Kiss at the New York Theatre. The producer, Florenz Ziegfeld, described her on the posters as "The World's Greatest Dancer."On 3 December 1912 she made her debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera, with a program of divertissements which included La Camargo, which had premiered earlier in 1912 at the London Coliseum. In it she recreated the dancing of the great ballerina Marie Camargo. On 17 December 1912, the Met saw the premiere of La danse, subtitled "An Authentic Record by Adeline Genée of Dancing and Dancers between the Years 1710 and 1845". Its seven tableaux portrayed past ballerinas from Françoise Prévost to Marie Taglioni. La Camargo and La danse were original ballets by Genée, created in collaboration with the composer Dora Bright and the designer C. Wilhelm. She took these on her subsequent tours of America, Australia and NewZealand. These pamphlets concern that period of her history. All seven of the dances are listed in the larger publication. No other copies located.

1 lettre autographe signée 2 pp. In-8 8 juin 1902 Bon "I see you are an admirer of the beautiful art of dancing, it gives me a great satisfaction to know that some of my auditorium are a little interested in the work. The artist does, not only admiring the dresses, which seems very much to be the custum here ; I receive many letters and autographs books to write in and I do it with great pleasure because I love dancing and believe in sympathising with those who like it also. Yours sincerely. Adeline Genée from Copenhagen". Danseusebritanniqued'origine danoise.