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5 unusual facts about Café society


Alexander Ulanovsky

(Josephson returned to America and worked as a lawyer representing Socialist clients of the Café Society. Mink went to Spain where he served as an NKVD assassin during the Civil War, and then disappeared from the historical record.)

Boogie-Woogie Dream

Boogie Woogie Dream was a side project, inspired by the musicians at Café Society in New York, a popular nightspot and frequent location for live radio remotes; it served as the flash point for the Boogie Woogie craze in New York City.

Café society

Lucius Beebe, noted American author, journalist, gourmand, and railroad enthusiast is generally credited with creating the term "café society," which he chronicled in his weekly column, This New York, for the New York Herald Tribune during the 1920s and 1930s.

Philly Joe Jones

In 1947 he became the house drummer at Café Society in New York City, where he played with the leading bebop players of the day.

Steak Diane

By the 1940s, Steak Diane was a common item on the menus of restaurants popular with Café Society, including the restaurants at the Drake and Sherry-Netherland hotels and The Colony.


Frederick Lambart, 9th Earl of Cavan

Captain the Honourable Lionel John Olive Lambart (1873–1940), married in 1906 an American heiress, Adelaide Douglas Randolph, and had one daughter, Lady Edith Foxwell "The Queen of London Cafe Society".


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Exiled in Paris

This begins with the arrival of Wright at Gertrude Stein's Paris apartment, effectively handing the baton over from the pre-war artist-led bohemian Paris of Stein, Anaïs Nin, and Henry Miller to the more literary-focused cafe society.

Foxwell

Lady Edith Foxwell (1918–1996) "The Queen of London Cafe Society" and wife of Ivan