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Ferko left the Fralinger pharmacy in 1921 to open his own establishment. He led the "North Philadelphia String Band" for the 1922 parade, but later that year founded his own band, [1] co-founded by Walter Butterworth and Charles Keegan. [4] Ferko first won the string-band division in 1927 with an entry entitled "Cards."
Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders and in the UK, Striptease Lady) is a 1943 American musical comedy-mystery film, produced by Hunt Stromberg and directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea.
During the 1940s, the band featured some of the best female musicians of the day. [1] They played swing and jazz on a national circuit that included the Apollo Theater in New York City, the Regal Theater in Chicago, and the Howard Theater in Washington, D.C. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After a performance in Chicago in 1943, the Chicago Defender announced the ...
She entertained there nightly and hired the Quintette du Hot Club de France as one of the house bands at the club. [3] [4] As World War II broke out in September 1939, the Quintette was on a concert tour of England. Reinhardt, who spoke virtually no English, immediately returned to France, where he thought he would feel safer than in the UK.
Cigarette girls in Florida in 1956 Cigarette girl at the Bellmansro restaurant in Sweden, 1940. In Europe and the United States, a cigarette girl was an attractive young woman who sold or provided cigarettes from a tray held by a neck strap, a common casual occupation until supplanted by vending machines in the 1950s, especially at nightclubs, but also at restaurants, bars, casinos, and other ...
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Women employees of the Aluminum Co. of Kingston, Ontario wear knee-length skirts with blouses or sweaters (often with a string of graduated pearls), 1943. Women's fashion in Europe (Hungary, 1943). Singer Peggy Lee wears a pompadour hairstyle and an evening dress with a "sweetheart" neckline in the film Stage Door Canteen , 1943.
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