American Decades
People in the News
On 28 November 1917 brother-and-sister dance team Fred and Adele Astaire made their Broadway debut in Over the Top, starring Ed Wynn and Justine Johnstone.
On 9 April 1919 brothers John and Lionel Barrymore opened at the Plymouth Theater in New York in Edward Sheldon's play The Jest, which became a hit.
On 17 July 1913 Irving Berlin's wife, Dorothy, died of typhoid fever, five months after their marriage; in his grief Berlin wrote the ballad "When I Lost You," which sold two million copies of sheet music.
On 3 October 1910 Charlie Chaplin, a twenty-one-year-old member of a British pantomime company, performed his act "The Inebriate Swell" (complete with false moustache) at the Colonial Theater in New York City. He was a hit.
On 6 April 1917, after reading a newspaper report that the United States had declared war on Germany, George M. Cohan wrote...
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1910's The Arts
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- American Artists Rebel
- The Armory Show and its Legacy
- Dancers Break the Rules
- Literature: An American Voice Emerges
- Literature: The New Poetry
- Movies: The Business, the Studios, the Stars
- Movies: The Directors and the Pictures
- The Music Downtown
- The Music Uptown
- Theater: The American Stage in Transition
- Theater: Musicals Take Center Stage
- Theater: Vaudeville
- "The Village," the Salons, and Other Gatherings
- War and the Arts: The Two Faces of Patriotism
- Workers Unite: ArtÏSts Organize
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in The Arts, 1910–1919
