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A continuous show : from 7:00 p.m.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+ Continuous S56 1942	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

[1] p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Alternative Title

Mona's Club 440

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Poster that appeared as an advertisement in the Dec. 1942 issue of San Francisco Life.
Full text of poster: "A Continuous Show / From 7:00 P.M. / Come Early! / American's Greatest Sepia Piano Artist / Gladys Bentley / Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs / and / Miss Jimmy Reynard / Direct from Hollywood's Famous / 'Cafe International!' / *Rose O'Neill / Female Fred Astaire / *'Butch' Minton / Singing Gay Songs / with the same type of gay enter- / tainment that has made the 440 / Club famous / Mona's / Club 440 / 440 / Broadway." With photograph of "Miss Jimmy Reynard," with name beneath photograph, in white tie, leaning with right arm on white pedestal.
Eric Garber, historian of gay culture in the U.S., writes of Gladys Bentley: "250-pounds, masculine, dark skinned lesbian, who performed all night long in a white tuxedo and top hat. Bentley, a talented pianist with a magnificent, growling voice, was celebrated for inventing obscene lyrics to popular contemporary melodies."--Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past.
An early use of the word "gay" in a homosexual context.
The motto of Mona's Club 440 was "Where Girls Will Be Boys!"

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Call Number

Berg Coll+ Continuous S56 1942

OCLC

794280395

Title

A continuous show : from 7:00 p.m.

Imprint

[San Francisco : s.n., 1942]

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Reproduction

Facsim. [s.l.] : [s.n.], [199-?] NNBGC

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Added Author

Bentley, Gladys.

Reynard, Jimmy.

Other Title

Mona's Club 440

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Continuous S56 1942