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)
A “BEHIND THE SCENES” LOOK AT THE NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR
• September 11, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, library donors, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition, Aquacade, Billy Rose, California Pacific International Exposition, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Francis Xavier Luca, Futurama, graphic statistics, Great Depression, Great Lakes Exposition, Grover Whalen, Hall of Medicine Building, Harvey Gibson, Hildreth Meiere (1892-1961), James Mauro, NYWF (1939-1940), Robert Moses, Statistically Speaking, Texas Centennial Exposition, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Twilight at the world of tomorrow, Wolfsonian Book Club, World's Fairs
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