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)
Reflections on the Passing of Fidel Castro and the U.S.-Cuba Relationship by Wolfsonian–FIU Chief Librarian Francis Luca
• December 1, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, bars, Communism, Cuba, dance, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, hotels, library donors, museums, persuasive arts, photography, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1950s, 25th of July Movement, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Afro-Cuban jazz, American celebrities, American tourists in Cuba, Bar La Florida (Havana), Bay of Pigs invasion, Cabarets, Casino de Capri, Casinos, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Che! (film : 1969), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Coca-cola, Cocktail Time in Cuba, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuba (film : 1979), Cuban exiles, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban musicians, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), dictators, Dizzy Gillespie, Ed Sullivan, Errol Flynn, Escape from Hell Island (film : 1964), Ferries, Fidel Castro, Francis Xavier Luca, Fulgencio Batista, Gran Casino Nacional de Habana, Granma, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Libre (hotel), Havana (Cuba), Havana Hilton, Havana Widows (film : 1933), honeymooners, Jose Marti, Key West (Florida), La Bodeguita del Medio (restaurant : Havana), Liberace, mambo, Moncada barracks (Santiago de Cuba), Nightclubs, Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), President Obama, Prohibition, promised gifts, Raul Castro, Rita Hayworth, roulette, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), showgirls, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), strippers, striptease, Tampa (Florida), tourists, Tropicana (Nightclub), United States, Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, We Shall Return (film : 1963), Wolfsonian Chief Librarian, Woolworths department store, Ybor City (Florida)
The Promise of Paradise: Wolfsonian Exhibition on Cuba Opens
• May 16, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, architecture, collectors, Cuba, curator, curators, dance, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, interns, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, postcards, posters, prohibition, Tobacco, typography, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions
Tags: actors, Afro-Cuban jazz, alcohol, Alice Faye, Arthur Murray Dance Studios, Bacardi, Bambu Club, beaches, Cabaret Panchin, Cabaret Pennsylvania, Cabarets, Carmen Miranda, Carole Lombard, Carteles, Casinos, celebrities, cha cha cha, Club La Conga, Coca-cola, Cuban dance, Cuban music, dancers, Desi Arnaz, drinking, Eden Concert, El Frutero (song), El Morro Castle (Havana), Entertainers, Ernesto Lecuona, exhibition installations, gambling, George Raft, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Havana Nights: Exploring Cuba Through Art and Film, Holiday in Havana, Hollywood films, La Republica, Latin music, Lobby cards, mambo, Margo, Mary Hatcher, Mary Taylor Moore, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Modern architecture, Montmartre, movie stars, museum openings, musical fusions, Nat King Cole, Nightclubs, Out of the Fog (film), Paradise, Perez Prado, Prohibition, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure - Amercan Seduction, Rosa Lowinger, Rosemary Clooney, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), Sans Souci, Sheet music covers, showgirls, singers, Sloppy Joe's Bar, socialites, sugar, tourism, Tropicana Nights, Two Latins from Manhattan (film), U.S.-Cuba relations, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade
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