Posts Tagged ‘Moss and Fontana’
The Ambassadeur Show 1926
Edmund Sayag’s first show at the newly renovated Café des Amabassadeurs was Lew Leslie’s all-black production Blackbirds of 1926. Direct from New York, Blackbirds capitalised on the success of The Revue Negre, featuring Josephine Baker, staged earlier in 1925 and was an instant hit. (more...)View Page: The Ambassadeur Show 1926
The Kit Cat Club
The fashionable Kit Cat Club in the Haymarket, which to many people today still epitomises the gay carefree days of the 1920s, was opened in the summer of 1925 and immediately became one of the most famous nocturnal haunts in London. Decked out with the last word in restaurant and dance floor equipment it was regarded as the most sumptuous resort in Europe and was the only club in London that had been built expressly for the purpose of a club. (more...)View Page: The Kit Cat Club
Welcome to the Cabaret
Cabaret was one of the defining features of the Jazz Age and these supper entertainments were staged in a venue other than a theatre all over the world. Besides providing food, drink, jazz music and an entertainment, customers could also dance. Indeed dancing was the key to the 20th century cabaret craze. (more...)View Page: Welcome to the Cabaret
The Kursaal Pleasure Palace, Ostende
One of the premier locations in Europe in the 1920s and the show piece of Ostende was the magnificently appointed Kursaal entertainment complex. (more...)View Page: The Kursaal Pleasure Palace Ostende
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
Grand Casino of the Villa des Fleurs at Aix-Le-Bains.
The Villa des Fleurs was a stunning entertainment complex set in beautiful gardens that made it one of the most fashionable places in Europe during the 1920s. (more...)View Page: The Villa des Fleurs Aix Le Bains
The Outrageous Rocky Twins
The Rocky Twins were deliciously handsome, outrageous and lived life to the full but never maximized their obvious talent and so never really attained star status. They were a pair of Norwegian brothers who made a name for themselves as dancers in the Paris music hall in the late 1920s at the tender age of eighteen. Their act took Paris by storm because in one of their numbers, they dressed up in drag and imitated the famous Dolly Sisters who had just retired. Their unique performance enabled them to star in stage shows all over Europe and America and at the same time their good looks became highly sought after by connoiseurs of the body beautiful of either sex. (more...)View Page: The Outrageous Rocky Twins
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