Posts Tagged ‘Florenz Ziegfeld’
The French Casino
In December 1934, the refurbished Earl Carroll Theatre located on the south-east corner of 7th Ave and 50th Street, New York City, opened as the French Casino. This glittering supper club was described by Fortune magazine as ‘a vast scarlet and silver restaurant which, in terraced rows of tables, seats fifteen hundred people without any crowding.’ For a short three year period it became the unrivalled premier nightspot in New York. (more...)View Page: The French Casino
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Moss and Fontana
Marjorie Moss and Georges Fontana were the most graceful and sought after British dancing duo in the 1920s. They secured high praise in London and Paris before conquering New York and were regarded by some as ‘the greatest pair of dancers since the Vernon Castles.’ (more...)View Page: Moss and Fontana
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 twenties. (more...)View Page: Bee Jackson and the Charleston
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The Fascination of Mah Jong
One of the more curious fads that took America and then Europe by storm in the 1920s was the Chinese game of Mah Jong the result of a long history of the West’s cultural assimilation of many aspects of Chinese culture. (more...)View Page: The Fascination of Mah Jong
Edmund Sayag’s Extravaganza’s
Variously described as the ‘liveliest man in show business’, ‘showman par excellence’ and ‘the Florenz Ziegfeld of Europe,’ Edmund Sayag arose to prominence in the mid 1920s owning or managing several prestigious European venues. He was hailed for putting Ostend back on the map and making Les Amabassadeur café-restaurant in Paris, the world’s most famous night-time rendezvous for the rich and famous. (more...)View Page: Edmund Sayag
