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The Houston Heights Woman's Club (HHWC) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to preserve the historical integrity of the Club and its clubhouse, and provide social and charitable opportunities for its members. The Houston Heights Woman's Club was founded in 1900, part of the larger women's club movement across the country.
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
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 ...
The woman's club movement became part of Progressive era social reform, which was reflected by many of the reforms and issues addressed by club members. [3] According to Maureen A. Flanagan, [4] many women's clubs focused on the welfare of their community because of their shared experiences in tending to the well-being of home-life.
One example that shows just how foreign women could be considered appears in the name of a band Mary Lou Williams headed that was called "Six Men and a Girl." [10] Oftentimes these stereotypes surrounding performing women extended to instrumentalists. All female performers were not a new idea in the dawn of traveling jazz bands though.
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 ...
The String and Splinter Club (1957) [385] [386] Raleigh. The Capital City Club (1979–2009), merged with the Cardinal Club to become the Downtown Clubs of Raleigh [387] The Cardinal Club (1979–2009), merged with the Capital City Club to become the Downtown Clubs of Raleigh [387] The Downtown Clubs of Raleigh (1979) [387] [388] Wilmington
Major shows of the late 1950s included Donn Arden's Lido de Paris show at the Stardust, Jack Entratter’s Copa Girls at the Sands Hotel, and Harold Minsky’s Follies at the Desert Inn. Minsky introduced topless showgirls and these were then incorporated into The Lido de Paris , a show that ran for 31 years. [ 6 ]