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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) performing arts center located at Symphony Park in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Consisting of three theaters in two buildings, [ 1 ] the performing arts center is designed in the Neo Art Deco style.
Women in the Garden (French: Femmes au jardin) is an oil painting begun in 1866 by French artist Claude Monet when he was 26. It is a large work painted en plein air; the size of the canvas necessitated Monet painting its upper half with the canvas lowered into a trench he had dug, so that he could maintain a single point of view for the entire work.
Las Vegas Folies Bergere showgirls at the Tropicana Hotel from matchbook. Showgirls were typically 5’10"-6’2"(178-188 cm) tall, donned 2-4-inch (5-10 cm)high heeled shoes, headdresses nearing 4 feet (120 cm) tall, and backpacks that supported the tropical plumage display up to a 10-foot (3 m) wingspan weighing upwards of 65 pounds (30 kilo).
Rita Deanin was born in 1930 in Passaic, New Jersey and graduated from Passaic High School in 1948, where she was voted "most talented" by her fellow graduates. [5] She studied at Goddard College in Vermont from 1948 to 1950 before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1952 and a Master of Arts degree in 1954 from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
A late Victorian English poem from the 1880s, "Chertsey Curfew" by Boyd Montgomerie Ranking, treats the same events. [8] In 1895, Stanley Hawley wrote music to accompany the poem's recitation (a performance tradition known as melodrama). This was published as sheet music by Robert Cooks and Co. [9] The poem was widely known in the English ...
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The MGM Grand Garden Arena is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose arena within the MGM Grand resort, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The venue opened on December 31, 1993, with a concert by Barbra Streisand , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and subsequent concerts by Luther Vandross , Anita Mui and Janet Jackson .
The first reported non-Native American visitor to the Las Vegas Valley was the Mexican scout Rafael Rivera in 1829.[9] [10] [11] Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party, [4] including Rivera, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas.