Josephine Earle Josephine Earle was an American actress who made a name for herself at Vitagraph in a series of Vamp movie roles from 1915. She then made herself thoroughly at home in England during the 1920s appearing in British silent films, legitimate stage shows and cabaret. She was born in Columbia Heights, Brooklyn on [...]
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The Incomparable Joe Zelli Joe Zelli, sometimes called the Kings of Cabaret Keepers, was undoubtedly one of the best-known and most popular characters in Montmartre during the 1920s and his nightclub the Royal Box was a firm favourite not just with visiting Americans but all nationalities out for a good time. Zelli was Italian by [...]
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The Incomparable Joe Zelli
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Nina Payne Nina Payne was an eccentric, futurist American dancer who, after long years in vaudeville travelling across the USA, made a trip to Europe and became an instant hit in Paris where she remained throughout the 1920s. Nina Payne was born in Charlestown, Indiana 15th November 1890 and her family moved to Seattle when [...]
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Miss Florence The stunningly beautiful and dark haired ‘Miss Florence’ startled Parisian audiences as a member of the Gertrude Hoffman troupe in 1924 when she came on stage on an elephant as the Queen of Sheba. She became a popular celebrity in her own right, before teaming with Julio Avarez in a dancing partnership that [...]
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Gypsy Rhoumaje Shrouding herself with an exotic sounding name and persona, Gypsy Rhoumaje struck the big time in London and Paris from 1926 and delighted fashionable continental audiences with her exotic style of dancing and her own personal beauty. Of course nobody, least of all journalists, could spell her name right with several attempts that [...]
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Gypsy Rhoumaje
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The Tragedy of May Vivian May Vivian (1903-1924) was a vivacious actress and dancer who had just made a name for herself in London cabaret and was destined for bright things, but her life was cut short when, with all the dramatic intensity of a film tragedy, she was shot dead in the Spring of 1924 [...]
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The Tragedy of May Vivian
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Dancing Dora Duby The dark, glamorous and exotic sounding Dora Duby was an outstanding American solo dancer who found fame in Europe during the 1920s particularly in Paris where she was called the ‘Pet star’ of the famous Le Perroquet cabaret. Dora Duby was born 9th October 1902 in Seattle Washington (although some sources say [...]
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Dancing Dora Duby
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Bee Jackson and ‘Hey! Hey! Charleston’ The blond and vivacious Bee Jackson was described as the Charleston Queen and was certainly one of the more prominent advocates of the dance in America and Europe but did not ‘invent’ the dance itself. In the midst of a brilliant, international career she died tragically in her mid [...]
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Bee Jackson and the Charleston
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The Curious Tale of Peggy Marsh Peggy Marsh was an unremarkable chorus girl and later cabaret artist in the mid-1920s, who became famous for having a baby with the son of a multi-millionaire, and then being unceremoniously disregarded. Peggy was born Annabelle Greenough in Chelsea, Massachusetts on 19th December 1894 and by the tender age [...]
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The Curious Tale of Peggy Marsh
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Marcelle de Saint Martin French born Marcelle de Saint Martin was creative, talented and a striking beauty who found great success designing costumes for the stage in London at the end of the First World War and later became chief designer and head of one of the first British film wardrobe departments. And yet her [...]
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Who was Edward Dolly? Eddie Dolly was ostensibly the brother of the legendary Dolly Sisters. A talented dancer like his sisters, he became a prolific choreographer for both his sisters and major London theatrical producers and found a particular niche staging cabaret shows in the 1920s. Sometime in 1910, as the Dolly Sisters (Rosie and [...]
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Who was Edward Dolly?
The Trix Sisters The Trix Sisters (Helen and Josephine) were an American vaudevillian team who made it big in Europe after the First World War. Although they appeared in some successful shows, their unique inimitable style of playing the piano, dancing and singing found even greater favour in the burgeoning cabaret circuit in London and Paris [...]
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Tricks and the Trix Sisters
