Van Vechten wrote about performance as personality: Mary Garden and Olive Fremstad, Geraldine Farrar, Feodor Chaliapin, Nijinsky, Yvette Guilbert — the artists who made opera and dance modern in New York, described by the critic who later became a novelist and photographer of the Harlem Renaissance.
The great performers of the 1910s, caught in performance. Download the free EPUB.