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050 00 $aPN1968.C9$bL68 2005
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100 1 $aLowinger, Rosa.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005006782
245 10 $aTropicana nights :$bthe life and times of the legendary Cuban nightclub /$cRosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aOrlando, Fla. :$bHarcourt,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [415]-421) and index.
520 1 $a"At a time when Havana was the nightclub capital of the Western hemisphere, Tropicana set the standard. It was to 1950s Havana what the Moulin Rouge had been to Paris or the Cotton Club to New York. At Tropicana you could play the roulette wheel, dance to the latest mambo or rumba, or simply ogle the parading diosas de carne - gooddesses of the flesh. Nat "King" Cole performed there, as did Carmen Miranda and Josephine Baker. Mafia kingpins and Hollywood stars rubbed shoulders with American suburbanites, all of them drawn to Tropicana's combination of earthy sensuality and silky glamour." "In Tropicana Nights, Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox, widow of Martin Fox, the club's last owner, and for years its "first lady", take us back to its glory years. The club had been Martin's first love. Combining an eye for the very best artistic talent with an audacious but keen business sense, he nurtured Tropicana with single-minded devotion. Although Martin believed that with Ofelia at his side he could navigate a course through the social and political unrest roiling Cuba, he lost control of the club not long after the Revolution and never recovered from the loss." "Now Ofelia, her memories undimmed by decades of exile, recovers Tropicana in both their names. Guided by those memories, as well as by her own deep passion for Cuba and its culture, Rosa Lowinger tells the story of Tropicana, bringing to life one of the world's most dazzling venues at its most brilliant moment."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aTropicana (Nightclub : Havana, Cuba)$xHistory.
650 0 $aMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)$zCuba$zHavana$xHistory$y20th century.
700 1 $aFox, Ofelia,$d-2006.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005006790
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002398.html
852 00 $bglx$hPN1968.C9$iL68 2005