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The Joseph A. Ferko String Band or Ferko String Band is a perennial performer in Philadelphia's Mummers Parade. They gained national popularity through their hit recordings in the 1940s and 1950s. They gained national popularity through their hit recordings in the 1940s and 1950s.
Ebell Society, founded in 1876 in Oakland as the International Academy for the Advancement of Women. The club's purpose was the advancement of women in cultural, industrial and intellectual pursuits. Francisca Club, private women's club in San Francisco; Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, founded 1891. Its second clubhouse building, built in ...
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 ...
In the 1940s it was the Blue Lagoon Club, [5] supposedly a front for prostitution. In November 1946, Margaret Cook was shot dead outside the club [6] [7] and it was said that guns had to be handed in at the door with coats. [8] The police investigation into the murder of blonde Mrs Cook was hampered by the discovery that she had several ...
No women members Savile Club: 1868 69 Brook Street: 1927 Conviviality, from the arts to the sciences No women members The Sloane Club 1922 (Initially as the Service Women’s Club, then The Helena Club) 52 Lower Sloane St, Chelsea: 1922 Social Only women members originally, male members admitted in 1976 The Snail Club: 2024 48 Greek Street ...
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1940: US: American: Student of Julius Eichberg / chamber musician / founded a women's string quartet Bauer-Lechner, Natalie: b. Nathalie Lechner: 1858/05/09: Vienna, Austria: 1921/06/8: Austria: Austrian: Also violist in the Maria Soldat-Roeger String Quartet / Close friend of Gustav Mahler: Barbi, Alice: Alice Laura Barbi: 1858/06/01: Modena ...
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.