The Big Apple: Chorus Girl

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.

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Entry from December 04, 2022

Chorus Girl

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Wiktionary: chorus girl
Alternative forms
chorus-girl, chorusgirl
Noun
chorus girl (plural chorus girls)
1. A female chorus line dancer.
Synonyms
chorine

(Oxford English Dictionary)
chorus-girl n. a young woman who sings or dances in the chorus of an opera, musical comedy, or revue.
1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. vi. 100 A certain little chorus girl came upon the scene and served to make both money and repentance scarcer even than they were before.
1907 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 3/2 Elizabeth’s two thoroughly vulgar chorus-girl friends.

Wikipedia: The Chorus Girl
“The Chorus Girl” (Russian: Хористка, romanized: Khoristka) is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov.

OCLC WorldCat record
One of the theatre mob : an uninitiated chorus girl’s experience in Paul Kauvar, or, Anarchy
Authors:Hattie Conover, Standard Theatre (N.Y.)
Print Book, English, [1888]
Publisher:[Standard Theatre], [New York], [1888]

OCLC WorldCat record
Two chorus girls : and other stories
Author:Hamilton Clarke
Print Book, English, 1888
Publisher:Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., London, 1888

OCLC WorldCat record
My little chorus girl : song and chorus
Author:Nellie Burt (Composer)
Downloadable Musical Score, English, 1897
Publisher:Howley, Haviland & Co., New York, 1897

OCLC WorldCat record
The Chorus Girl; or, Knights of the Garter. A Farcical Operetta, libretto by E. Cook. Vocal Gems
Author:Charles Frederick Dennée
Musical Score, Undefined, (1898.)
Publisher:White-Smith Music Publishing Co, Boston, etc, (1898.)

OCLC WorldCat record
Confessions of a chorus girl
Author:Madge Merton
Print Book, English, [©1903]
Publisher:Grafton Press, New York, [©1903]

OCLC WorldCat record
Conversations of a chorus girl
Authors:Roy L. McCardell, Gene Carr (Illustrator), Street & Smith (Publisher)
eBook, English, ©1903
Edition:View all formats and editions
Publisher:Street & Smith, New York, ©1903

OCLC WorldCat record
Chorus girls I have known : forty types of the merry, merry, and one that don’t belong
Author:Frank Deshon
Print Book, English, ©1905
Publisher:J.S. Ogilvie, New York, ©1905

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