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 included [...]
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Gypsy Rhoumaje
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 it was [...]
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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 of [...]
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The Curious Tale of Peggy Marsh
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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Marcelle de Saint Martin
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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 Jenny) neared [...]
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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 and [...]
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Tricks and the Trix Sisters
