"The Fascinating Widow"
date: label: date made
content: 1910
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Eltinge, Julian
label: maker
content: F. A. Mills
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This sheet music for the song "The Fascinating Widow" was composed by Kerry Mills with lyrics by E. Ray Goetz, and published by F. A. Mills, Inc., in New York, New York, in 1910. The cover features two images of American stage and film actor and female impersonator Julian Eltinge.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Julian Eltinge, born William Julian Dalton (1881-1941), was an American actor and female impersonator. Eltinge began his career in vaudeville and acheived his greatest sucess in the 1910 musical comedy <i>The Fascinating Widow,</i> written by Otto Hauerbach specifically for Eltinge. The play premiered in Atlantic City, New Jersey, then toured the United States for 10 months before appearing on Broadway in September 1911. Eltinge is considered to be one of the greatest female impersonators of the 20th century.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0312.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0312
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0312.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 10 5/8 in; 34.29 cm x 26.9875 cm