Dr. Maya Cantu
Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, University of Michigan Press ‘24; Drama, Bennington College. mayacantu.com/the-world-of-bradfo…
- Stopping in the Yale/Barnes and Noble Bookstore today to find Bradford Ropes looking back at me!
- The ‘Jazz Age Illustration’ show @normanrockwellm.bsky.social was copacetic. 4 favorites: ‘Composers of Musical Comedy’ (Stuart Davis); Jeanne Eagels (Oscar Edward Cesare); ‘Ballyhoo’ cover (or, ‘On Strike Cabaret…,’ Russell Patterson); &—just wonderful—‘Backstage Scene’ (William Kemp Starrett).’
- Also sensational: Jay Jackson’s 1940 watercolor portraits of Etta Moten Barnett (‘Gold Diggers of 1933;’ ‘Porgy and Bess’)—singing and dancing.
