Posts Tagged ‘Paul Whiteman’
View Page: The Ambassadeur Show 1926
Tags: 1920s, 20s, Ambassadeurs, Blackbirds of 1926, Blackbirds show, Brooks Costume Company, C.B. Cochran, Cafe des Ambassadeurs, Champs Elysees Music hall, Dolly Tree, Edmund Sayag, Florence Mills, Frisco, Harland Dixon, Irving Aronson's COmmanders, Jazz Age, Johnny Dunn, Johnny Hudgins, Kursaal Ostend, Les Ambassadeurs, Lew Leslie, Moss and Fontana, Paul Whiteman, Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, Plantation Jazz Orchestra, Shrimp Jones, Three Eddies, twenties
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
Tags: Abe Lyman, Aileen Stanley, Al Starita’s band, Alfred Rose, Andrew Mather, Barrie Oliver, Ben Blue, C.B. Cochran, Café Anglais, Cafe de Paris, Carlos de Vega and Coralo Goya, Cavour, Chaney and Fox, Charles Ruthven, Colonel Walter Elway Jones, deMarcos, Desha and Barte, Divina and Charles, Dodge Twins, Dolly SIsters, E.O. Leadlay, Fowler and Tamara, Franklyn Graham and Barbara, Gaston and Andree, Gypsy Rhoumage, Haiger and Naldi, Hal Sherman, Hal Swain, Harry Foster, Holland and Barry, Houston Sisters, Howell, Jack Hylton, Joan Pickering and Danny Fer, Joe Termini, Johnny Hudgins, Kit Cat Club, Kit Cat Restaurant, Kit Kat Club, Lester Allen, Major Robin Humphreys, Marion and Martinez Randall, Marion Harris, Max Wall, Moss and Fontana, Mr P. Sose, Myrio, Nellie Breen, Odette Myrtill, Paul Whiteman, Percival Mackey, Peter Soso, Prince George, Prince of Wales, Quinault and Rowe, Sir Grattan-Doyle, Sir Walter Gibbons, Sophie Tucker, Sylvia and Kathleen Fayre, Ted Lewis, Teddy Briwn, Val and Ernie Stanton, Van Dock, WIlliam Morris Agency
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
Tags: Black Bottom, cabaret, cabaret craze, Charleston, Cortez and Peggy, Divina and Charles, Fowler and Tamara, Fox Trot, Guy and Van Duren, Jack Hylton, Jazz Age, Maurice and Walton, Mitty and Tillio, Moss and Fontana, New York cabaret, nightclubs, Paris cabaret, Paul Whiteman, Roseray and Capella, Sielle and Mills, supper clubs, supper show, Ted Brown, the 20s, the Roaring twenties, the Twenties, Vincent Lopez


