Word: florodoras
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...York City's Times Square emerged as a different sort of American apotheosis. Times Square exemplified a certain idea of the city carried to its frenetic extreme: a few blocks dense with too many lights and too much action, a happy chaos of honky-tonk night life (the Florodora girls, Legs Diamond's Hotsy Totsy Club), theatrical bliss (Barrymore's Hamlet, the Marx Brothers) and the spontaneous razzmatazz of the rialto. There was a civic side as well: Times Square became the natural New York place for jubilation en masse, every New Year's Eve and every time America...
Died. Daisy Green (real name Mrs. Marie MacGillivray), 57, one of the original six Florodora Girls of 1900; after an 18-months illness, in Los Angeles. Sang the Sextet in ruffled petticoats with parasols...
...Must Love Someone (by Jack Kirkland & Leyla Georgie; produced by Jack Kirkland) tells of six fly young ladies who, at the turn of the century, made up a Florodora Sextet.* In Act I, along with six swains, they render Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets...
...York's glittering and legendary years." To their idyllic plot they have added an atmosphere as romantic as a pair of handcuffs, a sty's-the-limit vulgarity. To those who were not of theatre age in 1900, / Must Love Someone gives the impression that the Florodora Sextet included such glamor girls of the past as Red Light Annie, Chicago May and Lizzie Borden...
...During Florodora's original Manhattan run of 547 performances, at least 79 girls appeared at different times in the famed Sextet...