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Lillian Russell

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Lillian Russell (December 4, 1860/1861 – June 6, 1922), born Helen Louise Leonard, was an American actress and singer. [1]

92 relations: Actors' Equity Association, Adolfo Müller-Ury, Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Pollock Moore, Alice Faye, Allegheny Cemetery, Bigamy, Bijou Theatre (Manhattan), Billee Taylor, Carl Millöcker, Casino Theatre (New York City), Chorus Equity Association, Clinton, Iowa, Comic opera, Cynthia Leonard, David Warfield, DeWolf Hopper, Diamond Jim Brady, Don Ameche, Dorothy (opera), Edward Arnold (actor), Edward E. Rice, Edward Jakobowski, Edward Solomon, Erminie, Eugène Oudin, Evangeline (1874 musical), Fay Templeton, Garden Theatre, Gasparone, Gilbert and Sullivan, H.M.S. Pinafore, Henry Fonda, Immigration Act of 1924, Irving Cummings, J. H. Ryley, Joe Weber (vaudevillian), John Kenrick (theatre writer), John Stromberg, Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Leopold Damrosch, Les brigands, Les noces d'Olivette, Lew Fields, Life (magazine), Lillian Russell (film), Lionel Barrymore, Manhattan Theatre, Marie Dressler, ..., Marilyn Monroe, McCaull Comic Opera Company, Military funeral, Mrs. Beautiful, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Patience (opera), Pepita; or, the Girl with the Glass Eyes, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Leader, Princess Ida, Richard Avedon, RMS Aquitania, Sex symbol, Sleeve, Smithsonian Institution, Soprano, Southampton, Summer stock theatre, Susan B. Anthony, Tenor, The Mountebanks, The New York Times, The Pirates of Penzance, The Pitt News, The Queen of Brilliants, The Sorcerer, Tiffany & Co., Tony Pastor, University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, Vaudeville, Victor Herbert, Victorian burlesque, W. S. Gilbert, Warren G. Harding, Warren William, Wildfire (1915 film), William Pitt Union, Women's suffrage, Ziegfeld Follies, 20th Century Fox, 44th Street Theatre. Expand index (42 more) »

Actors' Equity Association

The Actors' Equity Association (AEA), commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance (which is represented by SAG-AFTRA).

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Adolfo Müller-Ury

Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG (March 29, 1862 – July 6, 1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life.

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.

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Alexander Pollock Moore

Alexander Pollock Moore (November 10, 1867 – February 17, 1930) was an American diplomat, editor and publisher.

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Alice Faye

Alice Jeane Faye (née Leppert; May 5, 1915 – May 9, 1998) was an American actress and singer.

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Allegheny Cemetery

Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Bigamy

In cultures that practice marital monogamy, bigamy is the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another.

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Bijou Theatre (Manhattan)

Two Broadway theatres have been named the Bijou Theatre.

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Billee Taylor

Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens.

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Carl Millöcker

Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker (&ndash), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.

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Casino Theatre (New York City)

The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway, at West 39th Street in New York City.

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Chorus Equity Association

The Chorus Equity Association was created on August 12, 1919, in New York City during the strike by the Actors' Equity Association.

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Clinton, Iowa

Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, Iowa, United States.

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Comic opera

Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.

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Cynthia Leonard

Cynthia Hicks Van Name Leonard (February 28, 1828 – 1908) was a suffragist, aid worker, and writer, notable for her pioneering efforts toward social reform.

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David Warfield

David Warfield (November 28, 1866 – June 27, 1951) was an American stage actor.

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DeWolf Hopper

William DeWolf Hopper (March 30, 1858September 23, 1935) was an American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer.

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Diamond Jim Brady

James Buchanan Brady (August 12, 1856 – April 13, 1917), also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier and philanthropist of the Gilded Age.

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Don Ameche

Don Ameche (born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor and voice artist.

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Dorothy (opera)

Dorothy is a comic opera in three acts with music by Alfred Cellier and a libretto by B. C. Stephenson.

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Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, February 18, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor.

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Edward E. Rice

Edward Everett Rice (December 21, 1847 – November 16, 1924) was an American musical composer and theater producer active during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, known primarily for being a pioneer of American musical theater and introducing to Broadway a musical by African-American writers and performers.

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Edward Jakobowski

Edward Jakobowski (17 April 1856 – 29 April 1929) was an English composer, especially of musical theatre, best known for writing the hit comic opera Erminie.

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Edward Solomon

Edward Solomon (25 July 1855 – 22 January 1895) was an English composer, as well as a conductor, orchestrator and pianist.

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Erminie

Erminie is a comic opera in two acts composed by Edward Jakobowski with a libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton, based loosely on Charles Selby's 1834 English translation of the French melodrama, Robert Macaire.

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Eugène Oudin

Eugène Espérance Oudin (24 February 1858 – 4 November 1894) was an American baritone, composer and translator of the Victorian era.

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Evangeline (1874 musical)

Evangeline; or, The Belle of Acadia is a musical Extravaganza, with music by Edward E. Rice (arranged and orchestrated by John J. Braham) and lyrics and book by J. Cheever Goodwin.

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Fay Templeton

Fay Templeton (December 25, 1865 – October 3, 1939) was an American actress, singer, songwriter and comedian.

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Garden Theatre

The Garden Theatre was a major theatre on Madison Avenue and 27th Street in New York City, New York.

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Gasparone

Gasparone is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker to a German libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning five decades.

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Immigration Act of 1924

The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act, was a United States federal law that set quotas on the number of immigrants from certain countries while providing funding and an enforcement mechanism to carry out the longstanding (but hitherto unenforced) ban on other non-white immigrants.

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Irving Cummings

Irving Camisky (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer.

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J. H. Ryley

John Handford Ryley (11 September 1841Gänzl, Kurt. Kurt Gänzl's blog, 13 May 2018 – 28 July 1922) was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in the comic baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, particularly in America.

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Joe Weber (vaudevillian)

Joe Weber (11 August 1867 – 10 May 1942), born Joseph Morris Weber, was a vaudevillian who, along with Lew Fields, formed the comedy double-act of Weber and Fields.

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John Kenrick (theatre writer)

John Kenrick (born October 3, 1959) is an American author, teacher and theatre and film historian.

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John Stromberg

John Stromberg (Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1853 - New York City, 1902), was an American songwriter, composer, and conductor born in Canada of Swedish ancestry (name originally "Stramborg").

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Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)

The Knickerbocker Theatre, previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre, was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway (West 38th Street) in New York City.

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La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

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Leopold Damrosch

Leopold Damrosch (October 22, 1832 – February 15, 1885) was a German American orchestral conductor and composer.

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Les brigands

Les brigands (The Bandits) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

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Les noces d'Olivette

Les noces d'Olivette is an opéra comique in three acts composed by Edmond Audran, with a libretto by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot.

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Lew Fields

Lew Fields (January 1867 – July 20, 1941), born as Moses Schoenfeld, was an American actor, comedian, vaudeville star, theatre manager, and producer.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Lillian Russell (film)

Lillian Russell is a 1940 biographical film of the life of the singer and actress.

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Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.

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Manhattan Theatre

The Manhattan Theatre, directly across from Greeley Square at Sixth Avenue and 33rd Street, was located at 102 West 33rd Street, in New York, NY.

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Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer.

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McCaull Comic Opera Company

McCaull Comic Opera Company, sometimes called the McCaull Opera Comique Company, was founded by Colonel John A. McCaull in 1880.

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Military funeral

A military funeral is a memorial or burial rite given by a country's military for a soldier, sailor, marine or airman who died in battle, a veteran, or other prominent military figures or heads of state.

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Mrs. Beautiful

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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Patience (opera)

Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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Pepita; or, the Girl with the Glass Eyes

Pepita; or, the Girl with the Glass Eyes, based on a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, is a comic opera in three acts written by Alfred Thompson and composed by Edward Solomon.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pittsburgh Leader

The Pittsburgh Leader was a major newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, operating from 1864 to 1923.

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Princess Ida

Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer.

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RMS Aquitania

RMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner of Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950.

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Sex symbol

A sex symbol is a famous person or fictional character widely regarded to be very sexually attractive.

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Sleeve

A sleeve (O. Eng. ''slieve'', or ''slyf'', a word allied to slip, cf. Dutch ''sloof'') is the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Summer stock theatre

In American theater, summer stock theatre is a theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer.

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Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.

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Tenor

Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.

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The Mountebanks

The Mountebanks is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred Cellier and Ivan Caryll and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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The Pitt News

The Pitt News is an independent, student-written and student-managed newspaper for the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland which has been active in some form since 1910.

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The Queen of Brilliants

The Queen of Brilliants is a comic opera in three acts with music by Edward Jakobowski and a libretto by Brandon Thomas.

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The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan.

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Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Company (known colloquially as Tiffany or Tiffany's) is an American luxury jewelry and specialty retailer, headquartered in New York City.

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Tony Pastor

Tony Pastor (May 28, 1837 – August 26, 1908) was an American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

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University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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University of Rochester

The University of Rochester (U of R or UR) frequently referred to as Rochester, is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Victor Herbert

Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor.

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Victorian burlesque

Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and in the New York theatre of the mid 19th century.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.

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Warren William

Warren William (born Warren William Krech; December 2, 1894 – September 24, 1948) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s; he was later nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code".

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Wildfire (1915 film)

Wildfire is a 1915 silent drama film produced by the Shuberts and distributed by World Pictures.

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William Pitt Union

The William Pitt Union, built in 1898 as the Hotel Schenley, is the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh main campus, and is a Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark.

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Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage (colloquial: female suffrage, woman suffrage or women's right to vote) --> is the right of women to vote in elections; a person who advocates the extension of suffrage, particularly to women, is called a suffragist.

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Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies was a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934 and 1936.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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44th Street Theatre

The 44th Street Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 216 West 44th Street in New York City from 1912 to 1945.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Russell

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