Americans in Paris

Celebrating Artists and Entertainers

By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 15, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americans in Paris

Sensation
Follies Bergere
Swirling and twirling
Garments flowing
Serpentine dance
Inventive lighting
Play of brilliant colors
Loie Fuller
Americans in Paris
Stars of the music hall
Hypnotic inventive movement
Introduced Isadora Duncan
Divas of the avant-garde
Later comedienne
Josephine Baker
Shaking her bananas
Salon of Gertrude Stein
Expatriate gatherings
Brownies baked by
Alice B. Toklas
Lost generation
Hemingway and Fitzgerald
Escaping
Bourgeois U.S.A.
Babbitt back home
Between the wars
Gerald Murphy
Mixing cocktails and jazz
Cubism and relativity
Levity
Followed by
Wasteland