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New York: M. A. Lagen, 1920. Very good. 13 x 9.5 inches, double sided sheet in browntone advertising Lada's performance at Carnegie Music Hall on November 1, 1920. Very good, some soil. The verso features multiple pictures of Lada in various costumes. Emily Schupp was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1888 (d. 1964, Bellevue, Washington), and trained as a dancer there and in Europe, where she studied for three years (1907-11) in Russia, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany and Italy, focusing specifically on folk dances. She made her New York debut in 1914 and was critically well received, with one critic noting that "her art is of the same school as Isadora Duncan's, but more romantic and less classical in detail. Miss Lada has an unusual sense of rhythm and the imaginative gift. She is light and graceful, temperamental and poetic." She changed her stage name to "Lada" after a Czech composter, Reinhold Gliere wrote a song for her entitled Lada, which means "awakening." She made her debut at Carnegie…
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