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)
Havana, Cuba: America’s Former Premier Tourist Destination
• January 15, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, architects, architecture, Art Deco, Artists, bars, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Cuba, dance, displays, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, museums, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: architecture, Arcos de Cristal, Ava Gardner, Bacardi, bats, Biltmore Hotel chain, Cabarets, Capri Hotel (1957), Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), caricatures, caricaturists, Carteles (magazine), Casinos, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Charles Francis Flynn, Coca-cola, Comodoro Hotel (1955), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban exiles, Cuban Institute of Tourism, Cuban Tourist Commission, daiquiris, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Dick Powell, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, Film noir, Frank Sinatra, Fulgencio Batista, gangsters, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Glamour, Grafico (magazine), Gran Casino Nacional (Havana), Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Hilton, Havana (Cuba), Havana: The Magazine of Cuba, honeymooners, Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Joan Blondell, John McEntee Bowman, mafiosa, Mary Hatcher, McKim Mead and White (architectural firm), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Oscar Massaguer, Our Man in Havana (film: 1959), Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), political refugees, political satire, Prohibition (1919-1933), public relations, publishers, Ramon Arroyo Cisneros (Arroyito), Riviera Hotel (1957), roulette, rum, Schultze and Weaver (architectural firm), Sevilla-Biltmore, Social (magazine), Tim Hossler, tourism, Tropicana (Nightclub), Uncle Sam, University of Kansas, vacation destinations, Victory Gold Levi Collection
A FEW DONATIONS MADE IN MEMORY OF GINGER LEFF (JUNE 23, 1922-OCT. 24, 2011)
• December 3, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Cathy Leff, CIA, E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971), Ginger (Rose Ethel) Leff (1922-2011), Ginger Leff, Glamour, Glamour Girls of 1943 (film), Lucille Ball, Manhattan Project, museum directors, OSS, U.S. government Office of War Information, WAACS, war work, women, Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, World War (1939-1945)
GLAM SLAM!
• July 3, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in architecture, promotional materials, streamlined cars, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Alice T. Friedman, Aquacade, architecture, Billy Rose, Casa Mañana, Glamour, Miami Beach Greyhound Race Track, Packard automobiles, World's Fairs
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