- Collection:
- Cutler Collection
- Title:
- Hazel Beamer Cutler diary, 1924 March 1-1924 August 15
- Creator:
- Cutler, Hazel Beamer, 1901-1980
- Date of Original:
- 1924-03-01/1924-08-15
- Subject:
- Dancers--New York (State)--New York
Dance teachers--New York (State)--New York
Fencing--New York (State)--New York
Shubert Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.)
Women pianists--New York (State)--New York
New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel
Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel
Charlottesville (Va.)--Description and travel
Man-woman relationships--New York (State)--New York
Man-woman relationships--Georgia--Thomasville
Tonsillitis--New York (State)--New York
Tonsillectomy--New York (State)--New York
Democratic National Convention (1924 : New York, N.Y.)
Families--Georgia--Thomasville
Staten Island Ferry
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Mothers and daughters--Georgia--Thomasville
New York (N.Y.)--History
Canoes and canoeing--New York (State)--New York - People:
- Cutler, Hazel Beamer, 1901-1980--Diaries
Cutler, Hazel Beamer, 1901-1980--Friends and associates
Beamer, Bessie Baker, 1864-1955
Keith, Boudinot, 1859-1925
Keith, Dora Wheeler, 1856-1940
Haggin, Ben Ali, III, 1882-1951
Zanfretta, Enrico
Rybner, Dagmar de Corval, 1890-1965
Lee, Dorothy, 1911-1999 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Thomas County, Thomasville, 30.83658, -83.97878
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, 42.35843, -71.05977
United States, New York, Greene County, 42.27652, -74.12271
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
United States, Virginia, City of Charlottesville, Charlottesville, 38.02931, -78.47668 - Medium:
- diaries
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Diary of Hazel Beamer Cutler (1901-1980), dated March 1, 1924, to August 15, 1924. The diary describes Hazel Beamer's life in New York City where she attended college and performed as a dancer before she married and took the surname of Cutler. She writes about taking fencing lessons with "Monsieur Serac" as well as dance classes with instructors named "Tarasoff" and "Zanfretta" (most likely ballet teacher Enrico Zanfretta). She states in the diary that portrait painter and stage designer Ben Ali Haggin, III (1882-1951) may have subsidized these lessons. She suspects that the mother of her most serious boyfriend "George" (George Schleich) does not approve of her as a possible daughter-in-law. Hazel Beamer continues to date other men, including two suitors named "Bob" (Bob Sewell and Bob Harmon) and "Lester." She travels to Boston to perform for several weeks, and describes her experiences sightseeing and working with a director named "Minsky" whom she finds to be "conceited" and "boring." She spends time with Ben Ali Haggin, III and composer and pianist Dagmar Rybner. She is angry at Haggin for stealing an idea of hers that he wrote into a Ziegfeld Follies act. She laments her first love, Bill Jerger, who recently married and is visiting her hometown of Thomasville, Georgia. She suffers from tonsillitis for nearly a week before seeing a specialist who instructs her that her tonsils must come out. Ben Ali Haggin and other friends look in on her. She frequently mentions "Uncle Boudi," probably Boudinot Keith (1859-1925), New York lawyer and reformer, and husband of illustrator, portrait artist, and muralist Dora Wheeler Keith (1856-1940), referred to as "Dearie." The Keiths were Hazel Beamer's hosts and guardians in New York. Hazel Beamer bristles at her relationship with her Uncle Boudi, whom she finds to be a difficult person. She travels to the University of Virginia with Bob Harmon, attends several dances, and does some sightseeing in Charlottesville, Virginia. Hazel Beamer returns to New York and has a tonsillectomy on May 3, 1924. Her friends help her recuperate over the following days. Hazel Beamer writes about attending school, canoeing with George Schleich, playing tennis with friends, going out to New York restaurants, attending a New York Yankees baseball game, and traveling to "Onteora," the artist's colony in Greene County, New York where Dora Wheeler Keith's family summer cabin was located (and established by Keith's mother, Candace Wheeler (1827-1923), the founder of the American decorative arts movement). On June 23, 1924, she observed that the Democratic National Convention is taking place in New York City, and describes the city decorated for the occasion. She expresses anger and disappointment in Ben Ali Haggin for bringing the production "A Convent Garden" to London and not asking her to reprise the role she had starred in when it was performed in the United States. Her mother, Eva Elizabeth "Bessie" Baker Beamer (1864-1955) visits her in New York City, and she takes her mother sightseeing, visiting attractions such as the Staten Island Ferry and Coney Island. Hazel Beamer books a job at the Shubert Theatre and spends time with actress Dorothy Lee.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-08-05
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-08-05
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-08-05/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Thomasville History Center
- Rights:
-
