Sidney Easton papers 1913-1980

Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977

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Ethel Waters (born October 31, 1896, Chester, Pennsylvania–d. September 1, 1977, Chatsworth, California) was a musician and actress. She got her start in the 1920s in Baltimore, Maryland and also toured on the black vaudeville circuit. She began her singing career in Atlanta and then Harlem in the 1920s. She starred in many films and was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show and the first African-Am...

Easton, Sidney

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Sidney Easton, actor, playwright and songwriter was from Savannah, Georgia, the first born of six children of King and Eva Easton. His father worked on the railroad and for the Merchant and Miners Steamship Company. Easton ventured into show business for the first time at the age of twelve when he and his friends produced an animal tent show with stray cats and a kazoo band. Shortly thereafter, Easton went to work for the John Robinson Circus and later the A.G. Allan Minstrel Show. ...

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

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American distribution and production corporation of motion pictures. From the description of Pressbooks, 1977-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122391955 American film producing and distributing corporation formed by the merger of two companies in the early half of the century. In 1915 William Fox began the Fox Film Corporation; and in 1925, he bought controlling interest in the then largest theater in the world, the Roxy Theater of New York, N.Y. The Roxy boasted a seati...

Johnson, Helen A.

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Helen Armstead-Johnson (1920-2006) was an English professor and the founder/director of the Armstead-Johnson Foundation for Theater Research, whose purpose was to collect, preserve, document and exhibit African-American contributions to the American stage. Johnson spent her professional life as an educator, primarily at the college level, and taught for 23 years at York College, City University of New York, until her retirement in 1990. From the description of Helen Armstead-Johnson ...

Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection

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Howell, Bert

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