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The Optimists / Eleanor Powell [theatrical performance]
- Title
- The Optimists [Theatrical Performance]
- Performer
- Powell, Eleanor
- Published/Created
- 1928-01-30
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Casino de Paris
- Abstract
- Midnight review. Directed by Melville Gideon. Choreographer: Jack Haskell.
One of Powell's first New York performances performing acrobatic routine. Powell appears in the production number "Lacquer Lady" in a solo described in the program as "Eleanor Powell dances." It was the same acrobatic routine she had performed in Atlantic City as a child which led to her job with Gus Edwards.
New York Herald Tribune: (January 31, 1928) "Miss Eleanor Powell turns some very quiet and graceful somersaults and other dances acrobatically." - Source
- Schultz, Margie: Eleanor Powell: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood (1994).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015