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Photo, Print, Drawing Marie Cahill in "Merry go round"

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Title

  • Marie Cahill in "Merry go round"

Summary

  • The actress Marie Cahill is shown in a bust-length caricature, as she appeared in the 1927 production of Merry Go Round.

Names

  • Hirschfeld, Al, artist

Created / Published

  • [ca. 1927]

Headings

  • -  Cahill, Marie,---1933
  • -  Actresses--1920-1930

Headings

  • Caricatures--American--1920-1930.
  • Drawings--American--1920-1930.
  • Periodical illustrations--American--1920-1930.

Genre

  • Caricatures--American--1920-1930
  • Drawings--American--1920-1930
  • Periodical illustrations--American--1920-1930

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit Stagestruck! Performing Arts Caricatures: American caricaturist, sculptor, painter and writer Al Hirschfeld (b. 1903) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Following his early training in art at schools in New York, London, and Paris, he commenced his remarkable newspaper career in the 1920s and it continues unabated. His first theatrical drawing appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in 1926. Most readers, however, associate him with the New York Times in which his caricatures have appeared regularly since 1929 when he was hired as a theater caricaturist for the Sunday drama section, a position which he maintains to this day. His caricatures have appeared in numerous other publications including the New York World, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Daily Telegraph, New Masses, and Collier's. He also co-edited a satirical journal, Americana, with Alexander King in the early 1930s, and has written and illustrated numerous books. Marie Cahill (1870 or 1874 - 1933) made her debut on the New York stage in 1889 and achieved stardom with her rendition of "Nancy Brown" in the 1903 production of Wild Rose. Recognized for her talents as a comedic actress on both the legitimate and vaudeville stage, Cahill made her penultimate appearance in the 1927 production Merry Go Round, in which she, as one reviewer wrote, "makes a good deal of the breathlessly excited society madame on the track of scandal."
  • -  No copyright information found with item.
  • -  Signed, lower right: Hirschfeld.
  • -  Title inscribed in ink lower right.
  • -  Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.326)
  • -  Singer, actress, comedienne, and vaudeville performer Marie Cahill, made her acting debut during the 1880s, in the road company of Kathleen Mavourneen. A performer of Broadway musicals, she attained recognition in 1902 by popularizing the songs "Under the Bamboo Tree" from the show Sally in Our Alley, and "Nancy Brown" from The Wild Rose.
  • -  Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress).
  • -  Exhibited: Library of Congress, "Drawings of Nature and Circumstance," 1979.
  • -  Exhibited: Library of Congress, Swann Gallery, "Stage-struck!: Performing Arts Caricatures," 1998.

Medium

  • 1 drawing : India ink on illustration board ; 32.9 x 22.1 cm. (sheet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • SWANN - no. 507 (A size) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature & cartoon (Library of Congress)

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsc 00763 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00763
  • cph 3b15031 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b15031

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2009616869

Reproduction Number

  • LC-USZ62-67558 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

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