First Person Plural, Backstage with a Great Dancer

FIRST PERSON PLURAL, BACKSTAGE WITH A GREAT DANCER a memoir written by Angna Enters, with drawings and watercolors by Angna Enters and B/W photographs of Ms. Enters, hardcover with no dust jacket, first edition [per Stackpole Sons practice], 1937. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, marks, or dog-ears. Pages are age-tanned. Not a remainder nor library book. Bookplate of prior owners pasted onto first free endpaper. The first and last endpapers and pastedowns have a few tiny holes and smudged spots. The brown cloth boards are in fairly good condition (shelf rubbing along top and bottom edges, tiny spot on back board, and spine bumping with small tear at top). 9 ¼ x 6 ½, 386 pages, 29 ounces. NOTE THAT SINCE THE BOOK WEIGHS OVER ONE POUND, THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE U.S OR REQUIRE PRIORITY MAIL INSIDE USA XX [from Wikipedia] Anita "Angna" Enters (April 18, 1907?February 25, 1989) was an American dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and was a 1934 Guggenheim Fellow. She wrote a novel and three autobiographies as well as the films Lost Angel (1943) and Tenth Avenue Angel (1948). She saw the first Denishawn concert tour [in 1925] and an American tour of Sergei Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes in 1926. Enters moved to New York to study at the Art Students League of New York in 1929, and began to study dance with Michio It? the following year, eventually performing as Michio's partner in 1933. That year she created her first piece, an evocation of a statue of a Gothic Virgin, entitled Ecclesiastique. The piece later became Moyen Age. In 1934, she borrowed $25 with which to present her first solo program at the Greenwich Village Theater. Her solo program, The Theatre of Angna Enters, toured the United States and Europe until 1939 and was performed, though less often, until 1960. In 1934, Enters was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic art forms in Athens, Greece. Enters created a large body of visual art, including sketches, landscape drawings, archaeological studies, costume plates, water colors and oil portraits. Many of her sketches and paintings were exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her sketches were often costume designs for characters of her mime performances or set designs for plays. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds selected works by Enters, as do other museums. Enters met journalist Louis Kantor in 1921. The two began dating secretly in 1924, wed quietly in Spain in 1936 but maintained separate households. In 1924, Enters changed her first name to Angna and began using 1907 as her birth year. Enters wrote three volumes of autobiography ? First Person Plural, (1937) Silly Girl (1944) and Artist's Life (1958). She also wrote a novel, Among the Daughters (1956), and a book on her work, On Mime (1966). Her plays, Love Possessed Juana: A Play of the Inquisition in Spain, co-written with Louis [Kantor] Kalonyme, and The Unknown Lover, were presented by the Houston Little Theater in 1946 and 1947. Enters is also credited with having co-written two Hollywood films, Lost Angel (1943) and Tenth Avenue Angel (1948). Enters' first teaching work came at the Stella Adler Studio, where she taught from 1957 to 1960. She was artist-in-residence at the Dallas Theatre Center in 1961?62, and taught mime at Baylor University during that year. She spent the following school year at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1970?71 she was artist-in-residence at Pennsylvania State University, during which time she gave her last known public performance. …