About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2078
  • TitleBrooklyn outdid Broadway
  • SummaryMan with straw hat and comic mustache seated at piano on make-shift stage, accompanied by five elaborately dressed women (three sitting on piano). Caption: "Brooklyn outdid Broadway when the Senior League of the Williamsburg Settlement, 1719 Montrose Ave., staged a 'Gay Nineties Review' at the settlement's theater. Sally Levy won a star on her dressing room door with her version of 'The Last Rose of Summer' as sung to accompaniment by Roaul Gonzalez. In the prettier than pretty chorus were such lovelies as Sylvia Pearson, Lila Sternlicht, Jeanette Mazzarese and Terry Monte."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Feb. 25, 1950; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCostume ; Piano ; Amateur theater ; Social settlements
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Williamsburg: Settlement Houses: Drama