CABARET VILLE MAGAZINE. P45. Cont'd from P44

Jane Avril, paintings  by Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892. In the second photo, Jane Avril leaving the Moulin Rouge cabaret.

She returned one more time to Paris, her last visit to Paris in 1941 for a diner given  by old friends for old time’s sake…just a friendly token to pay homage to once upon a time, the  queen of France’s Can Can. Excited by the occasion, she stood up while everybody was still eating, kicked a chair which was in her way and shouted “Allez Les Enfants,  Une Fois En Plus! Une Autre Dance. Peut Etre, C’est Ma Derniere!” meaning « Hurrah children, one more time, one more dance, maybe this is my last!”. But this was not her last, for an impresario asked her to choreograph a show for a major Parisian production. Jane accepted. In her memoires, she wrote about this: "Je serais capable, en dépit de mes cheveux blancs et du "qu'en dira-t-on" de me laisser emporter par la musique! C'est peut-être l'une des multiples expressions de ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler la folie. Si c'en est une, elle me fut toujours douce et consolante, elle m'a aidée à vivre et je reste son esclave enchantée. Si dans l'autre monde existent des dancings, il n'y a rien d'impossible à ce que j'y sois conviée pour y interpréter la danse macabre."  In English, verbatim: "Despite my gray hair, I shall be able to do it. It is perhaps one of those multiple expressions, so convenient to call “madness”. And if it is this one…it has always been sweet and comforting to me. It helped me live,  and to it, I shall remain its enchanted slave. If in the other world, there is dancing, then, it should not be impossible that I might be invited to interpret the dance macabre !”- Jane Avril After her death, a movie was made about Jane’s life. Zsa Zsa Gabor was chosen to star in the film. Katherine Kath played the role of de La Goulue, Walter Crisham played Valentin de Désossé and Harold Kasket played Zidler.

 

THE WORLD’S FIRST CAN CAN AND LEGITIMATE CABARET STRIPTEASE DANCERS AND SINGERS

THEY WERE THE DIVAS OF THEIR TIME

         

 La Sauterelle                  Nini                      Jane Avril           Grille D’Egout     Rayon D’Or      La Mome Fromage

 

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