On the third floor of the Library for the Performing Arts, home to the research collections, there’s a great little exhibit on Andre Charlot’s Revue of 1924, and the way the show and its Broadway-debuting stars—Gertrude Lawrence, Beatrice Lillie, and Jack Buchanan—came, saw and conquered these shores. And did they ever deserve to do so, as did Jessie Mathews and Constance Carpenter, also making their Broadway debuts
I didn’t know, but the exhibit photographically reminds us, that the Revue featured a parody of Les Sylphides!
The Library’s Barbara Stratyner put it together.