“Rosy Cheeks” by the Club de Vingt Orchestra 1921 скачать в хорошем качестве

“Rosy Cheeks” by the Club de Vingt Orchestra 1921

“Rosy Cheeks” by the Club de Vingt Orchestra 1921 A nice little song on a very clean Edison Diamond Disc record. I couldn’t find much about the actual orchestra, but the Club de Vingt is very interesting and there is an excerpt below that describes how the club came to be. Both the Vanderbilts and the Astors played roles in this club and its orchestra. DAHR Link: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.ph... Club de Vingt history from Daytonian in Manhattan blog: Time were changing by 1915 and that year the former William Vanderbilt stables at Madison Avenue and 52nd Street were converted to a high-end night club, the Club de Vingt.   The Sun called it “a popular meeting place for members of the fashionable set.”  But only a year later the Club relocated to Alice Vanderbilt’s 58th Street stable building. On February 20, 1916 the New-York Tribune reported that the club had secured Mrs. Vanderbilt’s stable and that Donn Barber had been hired to do the renovations.   Truly a night "club" in the strictest sense, its members included names like the August Belmonts, Cornelius and Harold Vanderbilt, Mrs. F. C. Havemeyer, the Oliver Harrimans, and Harris and William Fahnestock and their wives. The façade of the carriage house was tenderly altered.  The two terra cotta horses’ heads were removed (they most likely were too closely associated with the building’s utilitarian beginnings); however the wonderful dog sculptures remained.  The carriage bay was replaced by shiny brass double doors.  Inside, Barber’s renovations included a large stage at one end of the former coach room and a dance floor. The upper-class neighbors may have turned their heads when Cornelius Vanderbilt erected his lavish stable; but some were not about to do so when a nightclub took over, no matter how elite its members.   In the spring of 1917 Mrs. Rosa G. Simons of No. 38 East 58th Street filed suit to have the club’s liquor license revoked.   When she failed to succeed, she filed an affidavit that the club was a “nuisance.”   The attorney for the Club de Vingt noted in court “Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt had consented as the owner of the building to the use to which it was put because of the high class of its patrons.” The high class patrons, however, were fox-trotting the night away to the syncopated strains of the De Vingt Orchestra.   On July 17 The Sun reported that residents were “unable to sleep nights, they say, because of the music and dancing and handclapping there.”  A lawsuit was filed against Alice Vanderbilt and Anna K. Hawkesworth, the manager, alleging “that food and drink are still being sold and served on the premises and that there is much loud laughter during the early hours of the morning, interspersed all the while with music from a large orchestra or brass band.” The untidy affair ended on September 20, 1917 when an injunction was issued restraining the club from selling liquor.  The Sun, in reporting on the judgment, diplomatically noted “The property is owned by Mrs. Alice Vanderbilt, but she had no connection with the club outside of leasing the property.” The club survived in the former stable for a few more years.  It was a favorite spot for debutante dances and, as later described by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “a proper establishment to which young women were brought by chaperones to meet boys from socially approved schools.” In 1920 the Club de Vingt moved to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.  Alice Vanderbilt leased the 58th Street building to art and antiques dealer Augustus W. Clarke for 21 years.  His total lease amount of $400,000 would equate to about $221,000 per year today.  On June 26 the Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide reported on Clarke’s anticipated use of the former stage for auction purposes.