Easter Promenade It's Easter in Washington, late though it comes, So blare on the trumpets and beat on the drums, And pin on the orchids so fragile and scentless, The Easter paraders will move on relentless. Three hundred and sixty-four days we've been striding Because of an A card that won't permit riding, But prop up our feet today? We will have none of it! Easter's for walking-and just for the fun of it! Forego that long hike and stay home to put soup on? Conserve precious leather and 17 coupon? Ah, no, let us join the Sunday morn marches. Up with the chins, girls, and down with the arches. On with the dress with the frou-frou upon it On with the maddest of mad Easter bonnets. Add all the touches to prove that we know style, Watch for the cameraman-give him the profile. For it's Easter in Washington-on with the strolling. It's for the pedestrians bells will be tolling. H.V.
These fine gentlemen are at the market purchasing Easter lilies. It looks like one of them is giving a bloom to a special little girl as well. Click on the illustration for the largest size possible.
Description of Coloring Page: This Easter market is by the sea. , baskets, children, nun, plant sell, seagulls, fashionably dressed men
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Description of Coloring Page: Easter parade, gowns, fashions, garden, 1913
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These smartly dressed people are taking a leisurely stroll in the park on Easter morning.
Description of Coloring Page: garden, walk in the park, Easter parade, fashions from 1911
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Illustration by James Henry Daugherty from a newspaper published in 1915.
James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 Asheville, North Carolina – February 21, 1974) was an American modernist painter, muralist, children's book author, and illustrator.
He lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the age of 9 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the Corcoran School of Art. Later, he went to London and studied under Frank Brangwyn. During World War I, he was commissioned to produce propaganda posters for various US Government agencies, including the United States Shipping Board.
Daugherty wrote and illustrated several children's books during his career. In his book Daniel Boone won the Newbery Medal. His book with Benjamin Elkin, Gillespie and the Guards, won the Caldecott Honor in 1957. He was also the author of Walt Whitman's America Selections and Drawings by James Daugherty.
In September 2006, controversy erupted at Hamilton Avenue School, an elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, over Daugherty's depiction of Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project
for the town hall, and installed in the school in 1935. The mural was
restored, and revealed a scene, filled with violent and richly-colored
imagery, including snarling animals, tomahawk-wielding American Indians,
and a half-naked General Putnam strapped to a burning stake. School
officials objected to the violent imagery, and ordered the mural removed
to the Greenwich Public Library.
Daugherty will be included in the exhibition The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America at the Yale Gallery in 2010.
Wow, this woman looks as if she stepped right off
Broadway. I hope parents and teachers will enjoy sharing with their
students these fashion coloring plates. I have certainly enjoyed
restoring them to their original grandeur.
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I love these little Easter caps, especially the one on the right. She looks as though she's balancing a pot of flowers on her head! Very saucy Easter attire indeed.
Description of Coloring Page: Easter parade, parasol, hats, fashions from 1916
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These elegant walking skirts were at the height of fashion in 1914. Catalogs and newspapers advertised new Easter attire religiously during the 20th Century.
Description of Coloring Page: fashions for women from 1914, posing, elegant, Easter parade
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Easter Parade is a 1948 American musical film starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "We're a Couple of Swells."
It was the most financially successful picture for both Garland and Astaire as well as the highest-grossing musical of the year.
In 1912, Broadway
star Don Hewes (Fred Astaire) is buying Easter presents for his
sweetheart, starting with a hat and some flowers ("Happy Easter"). He
goes into a toy shop and buys a cuddly Easter rabbit, after persuading a
young boy to part with it and buy a set of drums instead ("Drum
Crazy"). Hewes takes the gifts to his dancing partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller),
who explains that she has an offer for a show that would feature her as
a solo star. Don tries to change her mind and it looks as if he has
succeeded ("It Only Happens When I Dance With You"), until Don's best
friend, Johnny (Peter Lawford), turns up. Nadine reveals that she and Don are no longer a team and it becomes obvious that Nadine is attracted to Johnny.
Angry, Don leaves to drown his sorrows at a bar. Johnny follows him
and tries to persuade him to talk to Nadine, but to no avail; Don brags
that he does not need Nadine and that he can make a star of the next
dancer he meets. After Johnny leaves, he picks out one of the girls
dancing on the stage, Hannah Brown (Judy Garland),
and tells her to meet him for rehearsal the next day. Hannah then
performs a duet, singing a musical number with a member of the band
(Norman S. Barker) on trombone, "I Want to Go Back to Michigan." The
next morning, Don tries to turn Hannah into a copy of Nadine, teaching
her to dance the same way, buying her dresses in a similar style and
giving her an "exotic" stage name, "Juanita." However, Hannah makes
several mistakes at their first performance and the show is a fiasco.
Theatrical release poster
Hannah meets Johnny, who is instantly attracted to her and sings "A
Fella With An Umbrella" while walking her to her rehearsal with Don. At
the rehearsal, Don, realizing his mistake, decides to start over from
scratch by creating routines more suited to Hannah's personality. Hannah
sings "I Love A Piano" and she works out a dance routine with Don that
proves much more successful than their earlier performance. The duo, now
known as "Hannah & Hewes", are shown to be performing
"Snookie-Ookums", "The Ragtime Violin", and "When That Midnight
Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam'" in a montage of their performances.
At an audition for Ziegfeld Follies,
where they perform "Midnight Choo-Choo", they meet Nadine who is
starring in the show. Hannah realizes that Nadine was Don's former
dancing partner and demands to know if they were in love. Don hesitates
and Hannah runs out of the rehearsal where she encounters Johnny. Later,
Don meets Hannah back at the hotel and reveals that he turned down the
Ziegfeld offer, believing that Hannah and Nadine do not belong in the
same show. Johnny soon arrives and takes Hannah out for dinner at which,
after a comical routine by the waiter, Johnny reveals that he has
fallen in love with Hannah. While Hannah does like Johnny, she admits
she is actually in love with Don; she also admits to deliberately making
mistakes when they rehearse so she can be with him longer. She and
Johnny continue to have a close friendship.
Meanwhile, Nadine's show opens and Don goes to see it ("Shakin' The
Blues Away"). He is the only member of the audience who seems
unimpressed. Later on, Don goes to see Hannah and tell her that they
will be starring in another show and invites her to dinner to celebrate.
Hannah goes to dinner at Don's, only to have him suggest a dance
rehearsal. She is immediately upset and turns to walk out, telling him
that he's "nothing but a pair of dancing shoes" and that he doesn't see
her as a woman, but as a dancing aid. Hannah is particularly annoyed
that Don doesn't notice her new clothes and all the effort she has made
for him. She tries to leave, but Don stops her and kisses her. Hannah
then plays the piano and sings "It Only Happens When I Dance With You,"
after which Don realizes he is in love with Hannah and they embrace.
The couple take part in a variety show, with a solo by Don ("Steppin'
Out With My Baby") and then comes the most famous musical number in the
film ("A Couple of Swells"), in which Don and Hannah play a pair of
street urchins with vivid imaginations. Don and Hannah go out to
celebrate after the show and end up watching Nadine perform. Nadine is
mad with jealousy when the audience gives Don and Hannah a round of
applause as they come in. Nadine is the star dancer in "The Girl On The
Magazine Cover." The song features an ingenious stage act, in which
women appear against backdrops that look like the covers of contemporary
magazines. Nadine herself appears on the cover of Harper's Bazaar.
Afterwards, she insists that Don perform one of their old numbers with
her for old times' sake, as she tries to win Don back - "It Only Happens
When I Dance With You (Reprise)." When Don reluctantly agrees, Hannah
becomes upset and runs out.
She ends up at the bar where she and Don first met. There she pours
out her troubles to Mike the bartender ("Better Luck Next Time"). Later,
when Hannah returns to her apartment, she finds Don waiting for her.
Don tries to explain that he was forced to dance with Nadine, but Hannah
thinks Don used her to make Nadine jealous and win her back. Don tells
Hannah he'll wait all night for her to forgive him, but just before
Hannah opens the door, Don is kicked out of her building by the house
detective. The next morning Hannah is telling Johnny about her and Don's
misunderstanding. Johnny says if he loved someone he would let her know
it, implying that Hannah should forget the argument and be with Don.
Hannah realizes that Johnny is right and goes to meet Don for their date
for the Easter Parade.
Meanwhile, Don has been receiving various gifts at his apartment that
morning, such as a rabbit and a new top hat, unaware that they're from
Hannah. She arrives unexpectedly at his house, as if the argument never
happened. Don is a little confused by this turn of events, but decides
to go out with Hannah anyway. As they walk in the Easter parade, photographers, echoing a scene with Nadine from the beginning of the film, take their pictures and Don proposes to Hannah ("Easter Parade").
