Books: Exciting Times of Post-War Euphoria ; the Jazz Age in France by Charles a Riley, Abrams, Pounds 25.
Birmingham Post › November 13, 2004
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Cole Porter's song, Anything Goes, summed up perfectly the Twenties and Thirties, the years of social abandon and sexual freedoms undreamed of in previous generations.
'The world has gone mad today, and wrong's right today', wrote Cole, and there was something about silly gigolos in the song who were prized above hardworking, down-to-earth males by wealthy, fashionable women.See the full content of this document
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Books: Exciting Times of Post-War Euphoria ; the Jazz Age in France by Charles a Riley, Abrams, Pounds 25.
And you would have found them and their toy boys in Paris, which seemed to be the focal point for so much.
Gertrude Stein led the avantgarde literary coterie, while Picasso, Br...See the full content of this document
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