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This article or section does not cite its references or sources. You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. This article has been tagged since August 2006. The Nordstrom Sisters were an American sister act from 1931 – 1976. Originally from Chicago, they were billed as society performers. These international cabaret singers were often styled as "The Misses Nordstrom" or introduced as "those Park Avenue darlings, the Nordstrom Sisters". 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, The City of Big Shoulders Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area - City 606. ...
Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue â a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ...
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Their songs were full of sexual innuendo and double entendre. They were of Swedish and Norwegian extraction.[1] Dagmar Nordstrom (1903 – 1976) the younger of the two sisters was a composer, arranger and the pianist of the duo. She wrote the music of a fox trot Remembering You popular in the 1940s and released on records. Portrait of Dagmar Nordstrom, one of the Nordstrom Sisters by Greta Kempton. ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
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Sigfred Nordstrom (1893 – 1980) the elder sister sang the lead and was the widow of Samuel Ferebee Williams, a candy executive who was the originator of the Tootsie Roll. They were married in 1919.[2] Portrait of Siggie Nordstrom (Mrs. ...
1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
A patriotic advertisement for Tootsie Rolls during World War I For information about the hip-hip song Tootsee Roll, see 69 Boyz. ...
The pair lived in London for a year in 1939 when they were the resident performers at The Ritz. They were often featured on board transatlantic ocean liners favoring the Norwegian-America Line and the Cunard Line. They were always booked in first class state rooms and took their automobile on board ship as part of their compensation package. They would celebrate as the cars were first out of the hold of the ship. Everything they needed on the continent was packed in the car and they were on their way as others waited for trunks. They sailed on the Sagafjord for her maiden around the world voyage. They always spent the month of October in Bad Gastein for the baths.[citation needed] London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
For other uses, see Ritz (disambiguation). ...
For the similarly named rock band, see TransAtlantic. ...
An ocean liner is a large passenger ship, most typically a motorized vessel that undertakes longer voyages on the open sea primarily for the purpose of transporting people from one place to another. ...
The Cunard Line formerly Cunard White Star Line is the British cruise line that operates the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) and RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) ocean liners. ...
First class is a particularly high quality travel class offered by passenger airlines, railways and shipping companies. ...
A State Room in a large European mansion, is usually one of a suite of very grand rooms which were designed to impress, they were the most luxurious in the house and contained the finest works of art. ...
Karl Benzs Velo model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race An automobile (or motor car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ...
Bad Gastein Bad Gastein is a city in Austria, situated in the middle of the National Park Hohe Tauern, at 1,000 metres above sea level, in fresh mountain air. ...
Their social circle in New York City was always growing from the private parties they worked and included: Hildegarde, Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, Irene Hayes, Erik and Emmala Rhodes, the Duke of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, Edgar de Evia, Greta Keller, Cecil Rhodes the Gabor Sisters and many others. [citation needed] Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
Hildegarde (February 1, 1906 - July 29, 2005) was an American cabaret singer, best known for the song Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup. ...
Baron Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg (December 12, 1904 â February 20, 1981) Parisian playboy, accomplished athlete, actor, producer, editor of Town & Country, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and what some call the spiritual father of three top designers: Calvin Klein, Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta who have all called...
Irene Hayes (1896 â September 16, 1975) was a Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman who owned Irene Hayes Wadley & Smythe, a leading Manhattan florist and Gallaghers Steak House after the death of her husband Jack Solomon. ...
Erik Rhodes (1906-1990) Erik Rhodes (February 10, 1906 â February 17, 1990) born Ernest Sharpe at El Reno, in the Indian Territory, in what was to become the state of Oklahoma. ...
The peerage title Duke of Windsor was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937 for The Prince Edward, formerly King of the United Kingdom. ...
Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American actor, known by the stage name of Montgomery Clift. ...
(1910-2003) photographer partner of Robert Denning He is best know for his Tissot-like effects using soft focus and diffusion. ...
Greta Keller-Bacon (February 8, 1903 â November 11, 1977) Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress. ...
Cecil Rhodes. ...
The Gabor sisters are three famous Hungarian actresses: Magda (1914? - 1997) Zsa Zsa (1917? - ) Eva (1918? - 1995) Their claim to fame, perhaps beyond their acting careers, is that of serial matrimony: they having been married six, eight, and five times, respectively. ...
Their guestbooks are a virtual Who's Who and included drawings of them by James Montgomery Flagg, Al Hirschfeld, and others. Jerome Zerbe would bring his latest photograph of them, and that too would go in the guest book. Perle Mesta had them entertain at parties in Washington, D.C., and launched them in Luxembourg.[citation needed] Whos Who is the name of a number of publications, generally containing concise biographical information on a particular group of people. ...
Flaggs famous depiction of Uncle Sam James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 - May 27, 1960) was a American artist and illustrator. ...
Al Hirschfeld photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 â January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist, best known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. ...
Jerome Zerbe (July 24, 1904 - August 19, 1988) was one of the originators of a genre of photography that is now utterly common: celebrity paparazzi. ...
Perle Mesta (October 12, 1889, Sturgis, Michigan - March 16, 1975, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) was an American society figure, political hostess, and ambassador to Luxembourg (1949 - 1953). ...
Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ...
When they were not entertaining or at a private party they could always be found at the Stork Club, the 21 Club, El Morocco or Gallagher's Steak House. Their mirror topped bar at home was covered with memorabilia from other bars around the globe.[citation needed] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
The 21 Club is a restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. ...
El Morocco was a 20th century Manhattan nightclub frequented by the rich and famous in the 1930s and 1950s. ...
Gallaghers Steak House Gallaghers Steak House was founded in November of 1927 by Helen Gallagher, a former Ziegfeld girl, the wife of Edward Gallagher (1873-1929) and Jack Solomon a colorful gambler with a large loyal following from the sporting element. ...
They entertained groups of 50-100 guests for cocktails several nights to celebrate each of their birthdays and during the December and New Year holidays. Initially they had an apartment floor through in Manhattan on 53rd Street, just east of Park Avenue. When that building was demolished for a new Chemical Bank building they, as Siggie used to say, moved to 'Albany' as the new apartment was on the north west corner of 79th Street at Third Avenue.[citation needed] In scuba diving, the word cocktail also means a hazard with diving with some rebreathers: it means a caustic solution resulting from water reaching and dissolving the absorbent. ...
The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next. ...
The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...
Park Avenue in the Upper East Side (2004) Park Avenue (formerly Fourth Avenue) is a wide boulevard that carries traffic north and south in Manhattan in New York City. ...
A massive crane is used to demolish this tower block in northern England Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. ...
The Chemical Banking Corporation was a bank holding company formed as parent of Chemical Bank, which had been founded in 1824. ...
Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, running in that borough from East 4th Street north for over 120 blocks. ...
References
- ^ From 21 July 1932 (page 10) through 9 December 1938 (page 30), The New York Times frequently reported on the radio show appearances and nightclub performances of the Nordstrom Sisters.
- ^ "Samuel F. Williams, Originator of 'Tootsie Rolls,' Dies In His 48th Year," The New York Times, 17 October 1931, page 12.
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