Fifi d orsay biography books
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D&#;Orsay the artist
Count d’Orsay, who died on this day in , was variously described as “the prince” or – more prosaically – “the last” of the dandies. The phenomenon of the dandy piqued intellectual curiosity in the count’s native France, where he was the subject of at least one book-length study in the 19th century. In his adoptive England, the scene of his social triumphs, he was confined to walk-on parts in numerous chronicles of the age while also appearing as a thinly-veiled character in contemporary fiction.
To the best of my knowledge, W. Teignmouth Shore’s D’Orsay, or The Complete Dandy was the first English biography of the great post-Regency fashion plate, appearing almost 60 years after his death. I’ve already quoted from Shore’s book, in which he describes d’Orsay’s toilet and high-handedly dismisses his lodgings which we visited in London (a journey which might have been lightened had I been aware of another Shore volume, Touring London with W. Teignmouth Shore; a little book of friendly guidance for those who visit London & those who dwell in London).
The arch, prolix prose of Shore’s endlessly entertaining biography seems to belong more to the count’s own era than the eve of the Great War. “Though there is not any authority for making the stat
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The Encyclopedia locate Vaudeville
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Fifi D&#;Orsay: &#;Paris&#; By Way of Montreal
Mademoiselle Fifi was one of the last gals out of the gate with that old vaudeville spirit. Her character was a complete invention. She was actually Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier () and she was from Montreal, not Paris as she liked to give out.
She came to New York in , where she auditioned for John Murray Anderson, producer of the Greenwich Village Follies, by singing “Yes, We Have No Bananas” in French. She claimed to have come straight from the Folies Bergère. Why not? Anderson named her “Fifi”. Shortly thereafter, Gallagher and Shean joined the show and Fifi became Gallagher’s apprentice – in love as well as in work. She was in his vaudeville act for two years, learning the ropes, but also functioning as his common-law wife. From there, she went on to a Herman Timberg sketch with Herman Berrens called “Ten Dollars a Lesson.”
After this she worked solo, singing and telling jokes well into the thirties at the same time she was starring in movies for Twentieth-Century Fox, such as They Had to See Paris (), Those Three French Girls, and Young as You Feel (). Her last film was What a Way to Go! (). She continued to perform live through the s, notably in the original production of Stephen Sondheim’sFolli