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img Mary Mon Toy performing during her Vaudeville days (ddr-densho-367-69)

Promotional photo of Mary Mon Toy during her Vaudeville touring up and down the East Coast.

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img Mary Mon Toy socializing at the China Doll Club (ddr-densho-367-59)

Caption on frame: "To lovely Mary / Good luck / and happiness / always / yours / Ming Chu / 12-5-46 / To Mary / I shall always / remember our / lovely evening / at the Chung [?] / Tom Galvert [?] / To Mary / Love L[?]."

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img Mary Mon Toy at the Nouvelle Eve Club, Montmartre, Paris (ddr-densho-367-90)

Caption on reverse: "Mary Mon Toy / Nouvelle Eve Paris."

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doc Program for "A Birthday Memorial Tribute" by Kurt Weill (ddr-densho-367-60)

Mary Mon Toy is listed in the ensemble. The program is signed by well wishers.

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img Mary Mon Toy and other performers at the China Doll Club (ddr-densho-367-58)

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doc Concert program (ddr-densho-367-34)

A concert Mary Mon Toy attended in New York.

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img "Folies Bergeres" performers party at the Desert Inn (ddr-densho-367-83)

Mary Mon Toy on the left.

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img The Olympia Theater advertising Mary Mon Toy's performance (ddr-densho-367-75)

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img Marquee for the "Folies Bergeres" at the Desert Inn (ddr-densho-367-81)

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img Mary Mon Toy as lead singer and MC at the China Doll Club (ddr-densho-367-55)

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doc Hunter College Concert Committee program for a Vladimir Horowitz concert (ddr-densho-367-31)

A concert Mary Mon Toy attended in New York.

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img Headshot of Mary Mon Toy (ddr-densho-367-73)

Promotional photo of Mary Mon Toy during her Vaudeville touring up and down the East Coast.

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img Mary Mon Toy backstage with Robert Ryan and others (ddr-densho-367-78)

Mary Mon Toy is backstage at the premier of the movie "Berlin Express." Mary was one of the star live performers before the movie. She performed in front of an audiencec of 4,000 people in Boston, Massachusetts.

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img Mary Mon Toy at a promotional event for Warner Brothers (ddr-densho-367-52)

Caption in album: "August 7, 1946, 8/2/46? / Hollywood, Warner's Anniversary Celebration / 20 Years of / Talking Pictures."

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doc A program for the Telephone Hour (ddr-densho-367-35)

The Telephone Hour was a radio program that ran from 1940 to 1958 and is also known as the Bell Telephone Hour. It was an concert that highlighted the best of Broadway and classical music. Mary Mon Toy attended multiple tapings.

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img Promotional photo of Mary Mon Toy during her Vaudeville days (ddr-densho-367-72)

Promotional photo of Mary Mon Toy during her Vaudeville touring up and down the East Coast.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-367-72/

doc A program for the Telephone Hour (ddr-densho-367-38)

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img Group shot of the show girls at the China Doll Club (ddr-densho-367-48)

Mary Mon Toy is the third from the right.

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img Mary Mon Toy at the China Doll Club with a military pilot (ddr-densho-367-57)

The pilot might be Robert MacDonald.

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img Mary Mon Toy backstage with Robert Ryan (ddr-densho-367-79)

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doc Mary Teruko Okada's transcript from Julliard (ddr-densho-367-40)

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doc Julliard concert program (ddr-densho-367-43)

Listed as Mary Okada Mon, Mary Mon Toy performs a song called "China Doll." By May 1946 Mary Mon Toy was a student at Julliard and also performing at the China Doll Club.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-367-43/