newyorkthegoldenage:“In two days we’d landed a job at Divinerries’, and I learned to shimmy from a k
newyorkthegoldenage:“In two days we’d landed a job at Divinerries’, and I learned to shimmy from a kid at the Palais Royal. We stayed at Divinerries’ six months until one night Peter Boyce Wendell, the columnist, ate his milk-toast there. Next morning a poem about Marvellous Marcia came out in his newspaper, and within two days I had three vaudeville offers and a chance at the Midnight Frolic.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Head and Shoulders (1920)For the full text of Fitzgerald’s story, click here (Google Docs) or here (PDF).Photo: the Palais Royal ca. 1920 (George Grantham Bain Collection via Reddit) -- source link
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