SALLY RAND - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/22/1974 - HFSID 255152
Price: $380.00
SALLY RAND
The 70-year-old originator of the fan dance sends her thanks.
Typed Letter
Signed: "Sally Rand", 2p, 8½x11, separate sheets. Glendora, California, 1974 April
22. On her personal stationery to Mr. Dale Olsen, Los Angeles, Calif. In
part: "Thank you for a lovely evening last night, and for including
Steve. It was such a lovely party... just enough people to be able to enjoy each
other... seeing the Tony's with a group who love theatre and are as
stimulated as you. I've always had to watch them alone...and like everything
else, sharing a happy is always more fun...." Three corrections in her hand.
In the year she signed this letter, the "Queen of the Fan Dance" both became
a grandmother and continued her grueling schedule, working an average of 40
weeks before appreciative admirers. Rand introduced her infamous fan dance to
the masses on May 30, 1933 at the Chicago World's Fair, using two large
ostrich feather fans she had purchased at a second-hand shop. The following
year, looking for something new for the Fair, she developed her "bubble dance",
using a 60-inch diameter balloon that she had developed herself. She died in
Glendora on August 31, 1979. Usual folds, horizontal fold touches upper
flourishes of "S" and "R". Fine condition.
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