Scrapbook of Rosa (Rolanda) Covarrubias

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Scrapbook of Rosa (Rolanda) Covarrubias

1921-1940

https://legacycatalog.nypl.org/record=b12210400~S1

Dancer who appeared under the name Rose Rolanda (or Rolando) and later married the artist Miguel Covarrubias. Material is chiefly from 1921-25 and comprises newspaper and magazine reviews and articles, programs, telegrams, some correspondence, and two poems (manuscript) about the dancer. Mostly about Miss Rolanda's appearances in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, the musical play The rose girl, the Garrick gaieties, and other Broadway revues. Includes some material about George Heppenstall, Pittsburgh artist and costume designer, and a section of newspaper articles in Spanish from Mexico or Puerto Rico (1925-29).

1 volume

eng, Latn

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 11664876

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Rolanda, Rosa, 1895-1970

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Rosa Rolanda was an American multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer. She was born in Azusa, California on September 6, 1895. Her father, Henry Charles Cowan, was an engineer and her mother, Guadalupe Ruelas, was of Mexican descent. Rolanda began her artistic career in New York in 1916 as a celebrated dancer in vaudeville and Broadway revues. She became involved with the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias in 1924, and in the following year the couple traveled to Mexico, where Rolan...