What’s On the Menu? The American Appetite for French Cabaret!
• April 2, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Artists, collectors, curators, dance, displays, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: "Revue Folies Bergere", 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Ambassadeurs (theatre-restaurant), Aquacade, Beryl Wallace, Billy Rose, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (nightclub), Broadway (NYC), Cab Calloway, Cabarets, Cafe Zanzibar (nightclub), Casa Mañana, Chez Paree (nightclub), Chicago, chorus girls, Club Harlem (nightclub), Cotton Club, Dave Wolper's Hurricane Club, Duke Ellington, E. M. Loew, Earl Carroll, Earl Carroll's (supper club-theater), Eastern Steamship Lines, Edith Piaf, exotic dancers, floor shows, Folies Bergere (film: 1936), Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge (nightclub), French Casino (nightclub), Glamour, Great Depression, Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), Hollywood, Hollywood Cabaret Restaurant, International Casino (nightclub), Latin Quarter (nightclub), Lou Walters, Maurice Chevalier, menus, Miami Beach, Moulin Rouge, New York City, Nicky Blair's Carnival (dinner club), Paradise Cabaret Restaurant, photograph sleeves, postcards, programs, revues, Rudy Vallee, Sally Rand, showgirls, Texas Centennial Exposition, The Man from the Folies Bergere (film: 1935), Thomas Hunter Henderson, vaccinations, Versailles (nightclub), What's On The Menus (Wolfsonian installation)
Cuba, “So Near And Yet So Foreign”: A Wolfsonian Glimpse Into An Era of Easy Access from the U.S. by Ship
• September 5, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Laurence Miller Collection, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1920s, 1934 hurricane, ban on travel to Cuba, Cargo ships, City of Havana Special (ship), City of Miami Beach (steamship), Clyde-Mallory Lines, Cuba, Cuban Tourist Commission, cultural tourism, Eastern Steamship Lines, Ferries, ferry service (Key West to Havana), Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, Great White Fleet, Havana (Cuba), Key West (Fla.), Miami Beach: From Mangrove to Tourist Mecca (Exhibition), Munamar (steamship), Munson Steamship Line, Nassau, ocean liners, passenger accommodations, passenger ships, Pedro Figueredo, Peggy Loar, Port of New York, S.S. Cuba (ship), S.S. Evangeline (ship), S.S. Florida (ship), S.S. Iroquois (Ship), U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, United Fruit Company
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