olivecraddock

Roshanara (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  From the National Portrait Gallery (UK) where they have 22 portraits of her: "Roshanara (Olive Craddock) (1894-1926), Dancer The daughter of an English mother and Anglo-Indian father of Irish extraction, Craddock learned to dance as a child in India. She came to Europe in about 1909 and adopted the stage name Roshanara after a legendary Indian princess. She danced with Loie Fuller's company and in 1911 appeared in London in Oscar Asche's Kismet and took the role of Zobeide in Scheherazade with the Ballets Russes at Covent Garden. She joined Anna Pavlova's company in 1912 and eventually settled in America, where she died from appendicitis aged thirty-four." www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp55949/roshanar...

• B-59 said:

  The newspapers wrote that her father was an English army officer in India. E.g. „... Roshanara, who is the daughter of an English army officer and all Anglo-saxon, despite her Indian name and her dusky beauty ...“ (The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, August 20, 1916, SECTION FOUR, Image 45, col. 3, oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-08-20/ed-1/se...). See also satiric article about her in The Washington herald., May 09, 1916, Page 11, last column, "NEW YORK DAY BY DAY", chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1916-05-09/ed-....

• Art Siegel said:

  Here's a lavishly illustrated article by her from October, 1915 telling American women to "Dress on the Floor, Work on the Floor, Eat and Sleep on the Floor and Lose Your Fat and Gain a Figure, Advises Roshanara, the Celebrated Dancer" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1915-10-10/ed-...

• Karen (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for providing her name and all of the articles. We'll add information to the catalog record next time we update.