Tag: France

Sheet Music: Maurice Chevalier dancing tango with another man, Paris 1913

Ray Batchelor writes: Cover of sheet music,  The Penultimate Tango or The Dingo Tango L’avant dernier tango – The Penultimate Tango A young (25?) Maurice Chevalier towers over and leads music hall and film star, Félicien Tramel, while Rollin – should that be Polin? Certainly the stage persona of Pierre-Paul

En el cabaret, by Fabius Lorenzi 1920s (?)

Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm  text by J. Alberto Mariñas. The artist Fabius Lorenzi (1880-1969) specialised in fashionable illustrations of a sexually adventurous, Parisian demi-monde, including – depending on how you look at them – representations of women enjoying autonomous sexual relations with men, to which this image

A postcard by Tuck showing a tango couple of two women, c 1913?

Ray Batchelor writes: “The artwork is signed by Luiz Usabal Y Hernandez. This image came from a Roumanian tango website: http://tango-timisoara.blogspot.co.uk/2012_06_01_archive.html Rasfoiesc internetul in cautarea unui raspuns si a mai multor variante/opinii legate de "femeile sa conduca in Tango" Parerile sunt variate, cele mai multe tin de eticheta in dans

Yet another in a French postcard series showing a couple of two women, c1913?

  Ray Batchelor writes: “I know nothing reliable about this image. I found it on a Finnish tango website : http://argentiinalainentango.ning.com/profiles/blogs/vilkas-tangotorstai-tulossa It says nothing about the image at all. It probably makes more sense considered as part of the postcard series to which it undoubtedly belongs – but I am

Ève Lavallière and Andrée Spinelly in tango pose, Paris 1913

Ray Batchelor writes: “I have this information from the source: Titre : Mr et Mme Richepin, Spinelly et Lavallière [les deux femmes dansant le tango] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol] Auteur : Agence Rol. Agence photographique Date d’édition : 1913 Sujet : Richepin, Jean (1849-1926) — Résidences et

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