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1.
Jeux : poeme danse de Nijinsky

Creator:
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Published / Created:
[ca. 1912]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1940
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
44
Abstract:
Engraved proof (Paris: Durand, 1912), signed and annotated in Russian by Waslaw Nijinsky. With signed inscription by Serge Lifar on cover: "Partition de Waslaw Nijinsky avec les notations de Diaghilev, de Nijinsky de Debussy de Bakst."
Alternative Title:
Jeux; arranged
Description:
Claude Debussy, French composer., Ballet, with libretto by Waslaw Nijinsky. Composed 1912-1913; first performed 1913; published 1912 (piano score), 1914 (full score)., a Available on microfilm, Cover title., Publisher's stamp on cover., and T.p. and p. 1-2 lacking.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924., Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Nijinsky, Waslaw, 1890-1950., and Durand & Cie.
Subject (Topic):
Ballets and Composers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Jeux : poeme danse de Nijinsky

2.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
50
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

3.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
40
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

4.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 3
Image Count:
69
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

5.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 4 (Oversize)
Image Count:
80
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

6.
Scènes nouvelles for Le médecin malgré lui by Charles Gounod

Creator:
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925, composer
Published / Created:
[1923]
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 992
Image Count:
134
Resource Type:
notated music
Abstract:
Score of Satie's nine scènes nouvelles, holograph, with corrections by Satie and brief annotations written by dancer Serge Lifar and in unidentified hands. Appended are a transposition of Gounod's quintet from act three, written in holograph by Georges Auric, and a vocal score of the final octet, written in an unidentified hand, possibly that of Edouard Flament. Laid in are a text of the quintet, typescript, and an excerpt in vocal score showing the transition to the final scene, written in holograph by Satie
Description:
Charles Gounod's opéra-comique Le médecin malgré lui, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Molière's play, was first performed in 1858. For a revival at the Festival Français in Monte Carlo, Serge Diaghilev commissioned recitatives by Satie to replace original spoken dialogue. A final vocal octet was adapted by Georges Auric from Gounod's quintet in act three. Le médecin malgré lui, with nine "scènes nouvelles" by Satie and the final scene by Auric, was conducted by Edouard Flament at the Casino Theater, Monte Carlo, on January 5, 1924., Available on microfilm, Staff notation., Vocal text in French., Title devised by cataloger., Date of creation supplied by cataloger., and "Médecin malgré lui: opéra comique de Gounod" -- caption title, written in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Auric, Georges, 1899-1983., Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., and Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
Subject (Topic):
Composers and Operas
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scènes nouvelles for Le médecin malgré lui by Charles Gounod