Word: floradora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second violinist was courteous, but the misguided show-off had blundered. He might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
...same elevator that communicated with the cabaret's chorus dressing-room. That June night, after the theatre, Mr. White had gone to the cabaret. He sat about for a while, then ordered a table and a bottle of champagne in a corner of the room. The Floradora tune was almost over when Harry K. Thaw asked his party to excuse him for a minute. He had just seen Mr. White...
...been for Yale students in 1900," says Nace Bonville, the "Leandre" of the Shubert revival, "Floradora" might have gone to the storehouse never to be resurrected...
...Haven twenty years ago the Elis gave the initial shove which sent this musical comedy on its career. Today Harvard sees, risen in its midst, this same "Floradora" resplendent with the charms of a new sextet. Can Johnny Harvard finish what the Elis began? Will front row, stage door and "standing room" be filled with Cambridge undergraduates anxious to give admiration to fair chorines? Will Harvard carry on? It will. And "Leandro" recalling, amid tumultuous applause, his triumph of two decades past, will be forced to the admission that in yet another field the Crimson has gone...