- Collection:
- Cutler Collection
- Title:
- Beamer, Hazel to Bessie Beamer
- Creator:
- Cutler, Hazel Beamer, 1901-1980
- Date of Original:
- 1922/1924
- Subject:
- Families--Georgia--Thomasville
Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel
Artists--New York (State)--New York
Dance--New York (State)--New York
Dancers--New York (State)--New York
Greene County (New York)--Description and travel
Musical theater producers and directors--New York (State)--New York
Actors--New York (State)--New York - People:
- Cutler, Hazel Beamer, 1901-1980--Correspondence
Beamer, Bessie Baker, 1864-1955--Correspondence
Haggin, Ben Ali, III, 1882-1951
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931
Keith, Dora Wheeler, 1856-1940
Keith, Dora Wheeler, 1856-1940--Correspondence
Ziegfeld, Flo, 1869-1932
Du Barry, Jeanne Bécu, comtesse, 1743-1793
Valentino, Rudolph, 1895-1926 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Thomas County, Thomasville, 30.83658, -83.97878
United States, New York, Greene County, 42.27652, -74.12271
United States, New York, Greene County, Tannersville, 42.19564, -74.13375
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
postcards
telegrams - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Folder of letters, postcards, and telegrams written by Hazel Beamer (before she took her married surname of Cutler, and who lived from 1901-1980) to her mother, Eva Elizabeth "Bessie" Baker Beamer (1864-1955). The letters were written mostly from New York City in the early-to-mid 1920s while Beamer was attending college and performing as a dancer before she married. In these letters, she describes taking pantomime classes, family news, numerous visits with portrait painter and stage designer Ben Ali Haggin, III (1882-1951), whom she describes as "like a father" to her. She updates her mother on career news, including a performance that she starred in titled "Sir Galahad, King Arthur, and the Holy Grail," and another called "Du Barry" about the life of Madame Du Barry, chief mistress of King Louis XV of France, where she played two parts: a dancer in the court, and the "Madonna of a Thousand Candles." The play toured throughout numerous major American cities. She also mentions working on a pantomime on the "Billie Burke show" with Flo Ziegfeld and Ben Ali Haggin. Among the letters from Hazel Beamer is a letter addressed to Bessie Beamer from illustrator, portrait artist, and muralist Dora Wheeler Keith (1856-1940), dated May 4, 1924, about planning a visit during the summer of 1924 at Onteora, her mother Candace Wheeler's artist colony in the Catskill Mountains. Candace Wheeler (1827-1923) was the founder of the American decorative arts movement. Dora Wheeler Keith and her husband, New York lawyer and reformer Boudinot Keith (1859-1925) were Hazel Beamer's hosts and guardians in New York City. More letters from Hazel Beamer firm up travel plans to Onteora. Hazel Beamer notes that she will have to have her tonsils removed, expresses gratitude for a birthday celebration in her honor, and describes the success of an unnamed performance (possibly "Du Barry"). She notes that Ben Ali Haggin is taking a day off from helping Flo Ziegfeld to paint Rudolph Valentino and then returning to assist Ziegfeld. More correspondence from Dora Wheeler Keith appears in this folder, this time a brief postcard updating Mrs. Beamer that Hazel is too busy to write, but that "all is O.K." Another letter from Hazel Beamer mentions how she was inspired by a performance from noted dancer Anna Pavlova.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-03-05
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-03-05
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-03-05/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Thomasville History Center
- Rights:
-
