04 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Orval Hixon's Ernestine Meyers, with Footnotes #231

Orval Hixon (American, 1884-1982)

Ernestine Meyers, c. 1920

Gelatin silver print, printed 1976

13-3/4 x 11 inches (34.9 x 27.9 cm)

Private collection

Orval Hixon (American, 1884-1982)

Ernestine Myers - Shadowland, c. 1922

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Private collection

Unknown Photographer

Ernestine Myers in the 1920 musical revue Silks and Satins

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Private collection

Unknown Photographer

Ernestine Myers 2 - Jan 1920 Shadowland

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The daughter of MLB player Albert “Cod” Myers, Ernestine Myers (1900-91) was born in Terre Haute. When still quite young, she followed the slightly older local Valeska Suratt to Chicago to get into show business, studying at the Chicago Musical College and, then in L.A. under Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn, with the Denishawn Dancers. She performed acrobatic toe dances, ballet and Creole folk styles in both Keith and Shubert vaudeville, and in the legit she danced with the Ziegfeld Follies and in the extravaganza Sinbad (1918) with Al Jolson. She left the latter show to take the named part of Mlle Rizpaz in Follow the Girl (1918) with Walter Catlett, George Bickel, Jobyna Howland, and Nita Naldi. Then came Silks and Satins (1920) at George M. Cohan’s Theatre, where she was billed with the spelling “Meyers”. She was featured several times in the pages, and on the cover of Shadowland magazine from 1919 through 1922.

Myers was still quite young when she opted to return to Terre Haute, where she founded the Ernestine Myers School of Dance, a local institution which she operated for 50 years. More on Ernestine Myers

Orval Hixon was a photographer of celebrities, and his approximately 37,000 images include an incomparable record of vaudeville performers such as Al Jolson, Ruth St. Denis, Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice.

Orval Hixon was born on February 4, 1884 in Richmond, Missouri, United States.

His first job (1902) was as a printer's devil for The Missourian, the local newspaper. About a year later Orval Hixon moved to Kansas City and went into partnership in an advertising and printing business, during which time he was commissioned by the Union Pacific to record all their railroad lines in the state of Kansas.

When the business dissolved, around 1906, Orval Hixon apprenticed himself to Lyman Studebaker, proprietor of a successful portrait studio, for whom he worked until 1914, when he opened his own Main Street Studio. He briefly took on a business manager/partner, James Hargis Connelly, in 1915, and moved his studio to the Baltimore Hotel in 1920.

Orval Hixon also maintained branch studios in Liberty, Missouri, and Manhattan, Kansas, then moved his entire operation to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1930. More on Orval Hixon

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