Lollipop Vaudeville Turns with a Fanchon and

Take a journey back in time to an era when movie theatres were movie houses, jazz was king, and vaudeville was one of the premiere forms of entertainment. Lollipop is the late Reva Howitt Clar's memoirs of her colorful career with the legendary brother and sister producing team of Fanchon and Marco and the first inside account to give detailed insight into the workings of this famous pair.

In addition to her dance career with the Fanchon and Marco Company, Reva Howitt Clar was also a contributing editor, book reviewer, and indexer for the Western States Jewish History Quarterly A jazz pianist, Mimi Clar Melnick has been a music critic for the Los Angeles Times and has written numerous articles on jazz for The Jazz Review and various other publications

Editor's Foreword

xi

Acknowledgments

xii

Introduction

xiii

Debut

1

(3)

Amateur Time

4

(7)

Transition

11

(4)

Professional Life

15

(7)

Living Conditions

22

(3)

Working Conditions

25

(5)

Recollections

30

(5)

The Record Begins

35

(7)

Twenty-Four Shootouts

42

(5)

The Warfield Girls

47

(5)

The ``San Francisco Beauties Idea''

52

(3)

Southern California

55

(5)

The ``Yachting Idea''

60

(6)

A San Francisco Welcome

66

(6)

The ``Book Idea''

72

(4)

Northward Again

76

(5)

And Southward Again

81

(5)

The ``Polar Idea''

86

(6)

Goodbye, Los Angeles

92

(5)

Marquard's Cafe

97

(4)

San Francisco in 1928

101

(7)

Change Partners

108

(9)

The Work Continues

117

(4)

The Boulevard Theatre

121

(6)

The ``River Idea''

127

(8)

Flowing Northward

135

(8)

The ``Gobs of Joy Idea''

143

(7)

Sailing Northward

150

(7)

New Territory

157

(6)

New York

163

(3)

The Palace!

166

(4)

Keith-Orpheum Time

170

(5)

Letters

175

(4)

Broadway Again

179

(4)

Washington, D.C.

183

(3)

Philadelphia

186

(7)

Loew's Southern Time

193

(4)

Atlanta and Memphis

197

(6)

New Orleans

203

(5)

Houston and Onward

208

(5)

Toronto, Montreal, and Boston

213

(4)

Fox-Poli Time

217

(4)

New York and ``Gobs''

221

(5)

Changes

226

(4)

The Pantages Theatre

230

(6)

More Pantages

236

(6)

Goodbye Dancing

242

(7)

The Booking Office

249

(7)

More Changes

256

(4)

Layoff

260

(2)

The Dancing School

262

(6)

Engagement

268

(5)

Marriage

273

(4)

One Last Bow

277

(2)

Epilogue

279

(2)

Index

281

(5)

About the Editor

286

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