LOIE FULLER DANCER & CHOREOGRAPHER 1901 AUTOGRAPH CARD & TWO BROADSIDES

Description

We are offering a Loie Fuller 1901 Autograph Card and Two Theatre Broadsides.
The autograph card is in an envelope that has been pasted on a 9" x 13 3/4" thick poster board (that had been part of a scrapbook).  Also on the board are two theatre broadsides: both broadsides are for
"The Highwayman
", Los Angeles Theatre, March 28, 29, 30, 1901
.  (One broadside has the full story of "The Highwayman" at the bottom.)
Loie Fuller (1862-1928) was a pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques who choreographed and performed dances in burlesque and vaudeville.  She was known for dancing in a long skirt while her movements played with the way it could reflect light, her silk costumes illuminated by multi-colored lighting.  During the performance of "
The Highwayman
", between acts, Fuller performed her two new dances, "The Archangel" and "The Tempest".  She left for Europe in 1892 where she became a regular performer at the
Folies Bergere
in Paris, performing her
Fire Dance
and becoming the embodiment of the Art Nouveau movement
.
Fuller received many patents relating to stage lighting, including chemical compounds for creating color gel and the use of chemical salts for luminescent lighting and garments.
This autograph had been requested by a woman by the name of Emily J. Stanton, the owner of the original scrapbook.
Emily Stanton must have been an avid theatre-goer (and collector), as we have many of these scrapbook boards, (some of which are on eBay now; some we will be listing later on) with theatre broadsides or programs, together with an autograph card, some accompanied by a letter, from a major actor or actress who performed in the plays.  The plays that Stanton attended were in major U.S. cites, such as New York and Los Angeles, and also in London.