| 词条 | Elvira Amazar |
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| name = Elvira Amazar | image = ElviraAmazar1917.tif | alt = Elvira Amazar | caption = Elvira Amazar in costume as Marguerite in Faust, from the cover of Musical Courier (September 27, 1917) | birth_name = | birth_date = 1890s | birth_place = Serbia | death_date = {{Death date|1971|02|07}} | death_place = New York City | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} Elvira Amazar (1890s – February 7, 1971), also known as Vera Amazar or Elaine Amazar, was a Serbian-born Russian-American soprano singer and actress. She was also the subject of the first photograph described as "cheesecake", in 1917. Early lifeElvira Amazar was born in Serbia Her father was a mining engineer. She was orphaned as a small girl, when both parents died during a strike. Relatives in Poland took her in, and she was educated in Germany and Moscow. She studied music in Paris and Milan.[1] Among her teachers were Félia Litvinne and Umberto Masetti.[2] CareerAmazar began her singing career in Russia, and found further success in Monte Carlo and Milan. She moved to the United States during World War I, a member of the Boston National Opera Company[3] and a client of the Bel Canto Music Bureau.[4] She sued her lover, baritone Georges Baklanoff, for an assault while they were on a Pacific Coast tour in 1917.[5] They later reached a settlement.[6] Amazar appeared in three silent films, The Volcano (1919), As a Man Thinks (1919),[7] and L'Aviateur Masqué (1922). She had a cabaret act in Paris in 1920.[8] In 1917 she appeared in Ziegfeld's Follies of 1917.[9] In 1925, Amazar was in the cast of another revue, Sinners of 1925, in New York.[10] In 1927 and 1928, she was in the cast of Blossom Time, an operetta based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert.[11][12] "Cheesecake"Amazar was known for wearing short skirts and high heels,[13] and is often mentioned in connection with the term "cheesecake". As the story goes,[14] in 1915, Amazar raised her skirt to show some of her bare leg for a photograph.[15] The photographer was George Miller. Miller's editor liked the image enough to declare it "better than cheesecake," and the word "cheesecake" became a term for photographs of attractive young women baring some skin.[16] Personal lifeElvira Amazar was involved with a married colleague, George Baklanoff, for several years.[17] (His wife and children lived in Russia.) Her claims that he deceived her into traveling with him[18] led to their arrests in Chicago, under the Mann Act, in 1920.[19][20] The couple left for Paris soon after they were charged;[21] Baklanoff was allowed to re-enter the United States in 1921,[22] and the deportation orders were dropped by 1922.[23] She became a citizen of the United States in 1929.[24] She had a daughter, Tatiana Amazar (1911-1979), born in Russia, who became a cookbook author and food editor.[25] Elvira Amazar died in New York City in 1971, in her seventies.[26] References1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=wew6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA12-PA26&ots=6O-fYkwoOe&dq=Minna%20Jovelli&pg=RA12-PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false "Elvira Amazar, Lyric Soprano"] Musical Courier (September 27, 1917): 26. 2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk80AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA19-PA21&ots=8XI3VR7e7J&dq=Elvira%20Amazar&pg=RA19-PA21#v=onepage&q=Elvira%20Amazar&f=false "Elvira Amazar to Appear in Concert Here This Season"] Musical America (September 29, 1917): 21. 3. ^"Russian Operas to be Sung Here" (September 14, 1916): 5. via ProQuest 4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=wew6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA12-PA26&ots=6O-fYkwoOe&dq=Minna%20Jovelli&pg=RA18-PA38#v=onepage&q=Amazar&f=false "Elvira Amazar Engagements; Bel Canto Bureau Items"] Musical Courier (November 1, 1917): 38. 5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk80AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA19-PA21&ots=8XI3VR7e7J&dq=Elvira%20Amazar&pg=RA1-PR50#v=onepage&q=Elvira%20Amazar&f=false "Russian Soprano Sues Baritone for $25,000, Alleging Assault"] Musical America (May 5, 1917): 44. 6. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk80AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA19-PA21&ots=8XI3VR7e7J&dq=Elvira%20Amazar&pg=RA1-PA15#v=onepage&q=Elvira%20Amazar&f=false "Elvira Amazar Withdraws Suit Against George Baklanoff"] Musical America (May 19, 1917): 15. 7. ^Alan Gevinson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&lpg=PA55&ots=x14k8fyV-e&dq=Elaine%20Amazar&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q=Elaine%20Amazar&f=false Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960] (University of California Press 1999): 55. {{ISBN|9780520209640}} 8. ^Simon Morrison, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uToUoQl53x0C&lpg=PA317&ots=tjF9ABhCCh&dq=Elvira%20Amazar&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q=Elvira%20Amazar&f=false Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev] (HMH 2013): 57-60. {{ISBN|9780547844138}} 9. ^"The 'Follies of 1917' Are Coming to Town" New York Times (June 10, 1917): 79. via ProQuest 10. ^"Theatrical Notes" New York Times (February 16, 1925): 24. via ProQuest 11. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19693100/blossom_time_1928/ "Majestic Theatre"] Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society (May 12, 1928): 18. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 12. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19694416/amazar_1927/ "Fitting Exponent of Vixenish Prima Donna Promised in 'Blossom Time'"] Courier-Journal (October 16, 1927): 31. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 13. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19694128/amazar_1915/ "Wear 'em 9 Inches Above Ground, Girls!"] News Journal (October 1, 1915): 2. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 14. ^Vic Timoner, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19694055/amazar_1954/ "Harbor Lights"] Brooklyn Daily Eagle (January 13, 1954): 21. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 15. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19689501/amazar_1915/ "Women Here Do Not Know Makeup Art"] Philadelphia Inquirer (October 2, 1915): 2. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 16. ^Tracey Owens Patton, Sally M. Schedlock, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xcjq7_dG1RYC&lpg=PA99&ots=pXhMQLsPr1&dq=Elvira%20Amazar&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q=Amazar&f=false Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo: Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism] (Lexington Books 2012): 99. {{ISBN|9780739173213}} 17. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=y-w6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Elvira%20Amazar&pg=RA2-PA8#v=onepage&q=Elvira%20Amazar&f=false "The Baklanoff-Amazar Affair"] Musical Courier (January 15, 1920): 8. 18. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19689255/amazar_1920/ "Music's Charms Fail"] Daily News (January 8, 1920): 3. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 19. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19684003/elvira_amazar_1920/ "Ha! Artistic Temperament and Cruel Laws Clash Again"] Oregon Daily Journal (February 1, 1920): 56. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 20. ^"Mlle. Amazar Arrested" New York Times (January 8, 1920): 22. via ProQuest 21. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19689428/amazar_1920/ "Off for Paris, but not Together"] Daily News (April 5, 1920): 7. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 22. ^"Baklanoff May Re-Enter" New York Times (October 6, 1921): 28. via ProQuest 23. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19689979/amazar_1922/ "Deportation of Baklanoff Is Dropped by U. S."] Chicago Sunday Tribune (February 12, 1922): 10. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 24. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19694586/amazar_1929/ "Actress is Now American Citizen"] Brooklyn Daily Eagle (May 7, 1929): 15. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 25. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19692840/tatiana_nichols_1979/ "Tatiana Nichols, 68, Dies; Food Authority, Musician"] Baltimore Sun (May 11, 1979): 15. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 26. ^"Deaths" New York Times (February 9, 1971): 42. via ProQuest External links
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