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Michael Pryor · @MichaelPryor
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This is from the French fashion magazine, 'La Gazette du Bon Ton', 1922, and the Jazzoflute virtuoso appears to be gathering admirers.

I wonder what ever happened to the Jazzoflute?

#history #fashion #jazzage

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Putting on the Ritz
Original 1930 Movie Sequence

This was the first song in film to be sung by an interracial ensemble.

youtu.be/66km3m_UE_k

#irvingberlin #harryrichmond #jazzage #flappersandshieks #cinema #film

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Debby Applegate · @DebbyApplegate
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Debby Applegate · @DebbyApplegate
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And here's the next time Frank Sinatra gave Polly Adler an autograph, as he was moving into his Chairman of the Board phase:
"Polly -- I adore you - Francis."

Naturally, she had it framed.

Image from the Polly Adler Collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera.

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#jazzage #1930s #1940s #tinpanalley #jimmyvanheusen #nyhistory #youngsinatra #americansongbook

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Debby Applegate · @DebbyApplegate
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This frosty January night by the fire seems like a good time to do a deeper dive on Ol' Blue Eyes.

Here's Frank @Sinatra's first entry in 's autograph book.

"“To Polly – a person I’ve heard of for some time -- and whom I’ve finally met – a very charming person – my pleasure. Sincerely Frank Sinatra”

Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions. @heritageauctions

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#madam #pollyadler #jazzage #1930s #1940s #tinpanalley #jimmyvanheusen #nyhistory #youngsinatra #americansongbook

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Matthew Graybosch · @matthewgraybosch
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My wife and I just got back from seeing . She wanted to see something lavish, and I had flatly refused to watch

It's very meta, being a movie about the movie industry in pre-Hays Code Hollywood, and has a half-hour prologue that's pretty much the equivalent of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.

After the title card, we see how Hollywood is a classic capitalist meat grinder, using people up and casting them aside, and the major players themselves aren't always sympathetic.

#babylon #avatar #jazzage

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Debby Applegate · @DebbyApplegate
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in 1924 Kathryn Ray, the star showgirl from Earl Carroll's Vanities, on the cover of the National Police Gazette: "Look what she got for Christmas!"

Looking for unusual this year? Try the racy new biography of , a topsy-turvy, . Now in paperback! For more info see www.debby_applegate.com

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#otd #christmasgifts #madam #pollyadler #truecrime #womenshistory #newyorkhistory #newyorkcity #nyhistory #gangsters #roaring20s #1930s #jazzage #prohibition #broadwayhistory

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"Ten Cents a Dance" was introduced by Ruth Etting in Florenz Ziegfeld's 1930 musical Simple Simon. The lyrics are by Lorenz Hart and music by Richard Rodgers.

archive.org/details/78_ten-cen

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"Battle of Lanka" Great animation!
👹Monsters, war, blood, gore, and romance!👹
Produced, animated, directed, designed, written, etc. by Nina Paley
Vocals: Annette Hanshaw, circa 1929
Based on the Ramayana of Valmiki, circa 500 B.C.
(free download)
archive.org/details/Sita04_Bat

#animation #1920s #annettehanshaw #jazzage

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