Kay Holley papers, 1889-1995.

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Kay Holley papers, 1889-1995.

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The collection consists of correspondence, news articles, photographs, playbills, concert and recital programs, and legal documents. There are a few original songs and sixteen cassette recordings of her playing. Holley entered the Julliard School in 1925 at age eight and graduated in 1933 at age sixteen. During her career, Holley directed the Radio City Music Hall Glee Club (1943-1951); coached and accompanied operatic vocalists, such as Eileen Farrell, Robert Merrill, and Beverly Sills, as well as performers such as Edie Adams, Ernie Kovacs, and Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters; following her return to Columbia, S.C., Holley served as musical director for productions with Town Theatre, Workshop Theatre and Columbia Lyric Opera, and as a voice coach for Kimberly Aiken, the 1994 Miss South Carolina and Miss America. Correspondents include Strom Thurmond, John C. West, Robert E. McNair, Max Liebman, and others; photographs, 1889-1994, include an 1889 image of her mother, Lena Halley Entzminger, as an infant, and signed photographs of Alexander Smallens, Erno Rapee, Bert Parks, Eileen Farrell, Edie Adams, Kimberly Aiken and Donald Russell. Also including one oversize sheet consisting of Christmas greetings, 1943, signed by Holley's friends and associates illustrated in color with an evergreen branch and a candle, drawn by "M.V." [located in Pob]

1 oversize item [on site: Pob]

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7762757

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Sills, Beverly

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American soprano. From the description of Signature, dated : [n.p., 1975?], 1975?. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967653 From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 9, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862081 American singer. From the description of Autograph card signed : [New York], to Edward Wagenknecht, [1976 Jan. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867185 Epith...

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American military officer and politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States' rights platform supporting racial segregation. He received 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes, failing to defeat Harry Truman. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern De...

Andrews, Maxene

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Parks, Bert

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West, John Carl, 1922-2004

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Adams, Edie, 1927-2008

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Liebman, Max

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Max Liebman was one of the leading pioneers in producing, directing, and writing several highly credited television productions in the 1950s. Growing up in New York, he attended the Boys High School in Brooklyn, and got his start in entertainment, performing and writing in vaudeville. He was the producer and director of the Tamiment Theatrical Workshop in the Poconos, a summer stock playhouse, and brought the company's show to Broadway as The Straw Hat Revue in 1939. Liebman was a co-writer for ...

Columbia Lyric Opera.

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Aiken, Kimberly, 1975-

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Entzminger, Lena Halley

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Workshop Theatre (Columbia, S.C.)

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Julliard School of Music

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Town Theatre (Columbia, S.C.)

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McNair, Robert E. (Robert Evander), 1923-2007

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Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004

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Russell, Donald Stuart, 1906-1998

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Judge, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed 1971 by Richard M. Nixon; Governor, 1963-1966, of South Carolina; member, 1965-1967, U.S. Senate; president, 1952-1957, University of South Carolina; married, 1929, to Virginia Utsey Russell; reared in Chester, S.C. From the description of Proceedings on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Donald S. Russell, United States Circuit Judge and South Carolina Statesman ; 1996 Feb. 24. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 40...

Smallens, Alexander, 1889-1972

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Alexander Smallens was a Russian-born American conductor. He accompanied the Anna Pavlova Ballet Company on a tour to South America (1915-1916) and worked on the staffs of the Boston Opera, Chicago Opera, Philadelphia Opera, and Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1947 to 1950 he was music director of Radio City Music Hall, New York. For many summers he conducted concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, New York. He conducted the premiere of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in Boston in 1935 and later took it on tour in...

Farrell, Eileen, 1920-2002

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Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.). Glee Club.

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Holley, Kay, 1917-1994.

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Holley worked as a professional musician and voice coach in New York City (ca. 1925-1960) and Columbia, S.C. (1960-1994); born Sarah Catherine Entzminger in Aiken, S.C., she later legally changed her name to Kay Holley, the moniker under which she performed professionally; after returning to Columbia in 1960, Holley worked with the Graham and Hamby advertising firm. From the description of Kay Holley papers, 1889-1995. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 57551655 ...

Kovacs, Ernie, 1919-1962

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Biography Kovacs was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on January 23, 1919; acted in stock companies and wrote for The Trentonian ; was a disc jockey and special-events announcer for Trenton's radio station WTTM; began his television career at Philadelphia's WPTZ in 1950 and was one of the leading innovators of comedy in the new medium; his first network television program was It's Time for Ernie (1951); continued to work on radio while doing tele...

Rapě, Erno, 1891-1945

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