Boutique fantasque
Contributors: Pahnke, Richard J., donor; National Sylvan Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1934
Language: eng
Description: Second Summer Festival program. Program. Part II. The Bekefi-Deleporte Institute of Dance presents "Boutique Fantasque" staged and directed by Theodore Bekefi. Accompanists: Gertrude Breeskin, Nan Doe.
Notes: Washington Sylvan Theatre, Washington Monument, Wednesday, June 20, 1934, 8:15 P.M.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: (Boutique Fantasque): Theodore Bekefi, Lila Zalipsky, John Kiernan, Valodia Grienieff, Walter Doe, Beatrice Mullin, Phyllis Greenberg and Zelah Millard, Donald Helm, Helen Kiernan-Vasa, Gloria Masgoret, Buddy Vallin, Richard Bell, Olga Dorosh, Phyllis Greenberg, Ann Friedman, Charline Springsguth, Ronnie Cunningham, Helen McHale, Mary Beth Hughes, Margaret Mary Edmonston, Velodia Grinieff. Dorothy Ann Goodman, Shirley Mae SInger, Phyllis Schwartz, Barbara Vallin, Boofie Barry, Dorothy Barry, Shirley Effenbach, Josephine Prather, Betty Jane Henderson, Evelyn LeMasters, Evelyn McHale, and Mao Tenn, Lila Zalipsky, Milton Schwartz and Maurice Deleporte, Virginia Barry, Billy Lytell.

Cast: (Sur la plage): Misses Barry, Goodman, Greenberg, Vallin, Henderson, Tenn, Dorothy Ann Goodman, Olga Dorosh, Ronnie Cunningham, Margaret Edmonston, Helen McHale, Betty Raymond, Walter Doe (dance staged by Billy Lytell), Evelyn LeMasters, Evelyn McHale, Charline Springsguth, Maurice Deleporte, Milton Schwartz, Misses Edmonston, McHale, Rossasco, Raymond, Reese, Stanton, Miss Cunningham.

Cast: (Papillons): Misses Barry, Edmonston, Reese, Springsguth, Zalipsky.

Cast: (Divertissements): Misses Effenbach, Barry, Prather, Schwartz, and Jacqueline Kitchen, Misses Barry, Cunningham, Edmonston, McHale, and Walter Doe, Boofie, Boyd and Dorothy Barry, Misses Schwartz, Tenn and Vallin, Charline Springsguth, Tania Gnoocheff, Shirley Effenbach.

LC copy 1 has handwritten note on program: "R.J.P. Wasington, June 20, D.C., 1934. A few good voices, fine dancing. I could not catch a single tune." Shelved under: Czardas Fursten.

Sur la plage (On the beach), an original ballet, staged and directed by Maurice Deleporte -- Papillons / staged and directed by Bekefi, Mme. Zalipsky at the piano -- Valse / VIrginia Barry -- RUssian Babi / Phyllis Schwartz, Barbara Vallin -- Divertissements / directed by Bekefi, tap routines by Lytell.

With: Die Czardas Fursten. Issued together.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).