Vintage Casino de Paris Program Roaring 20s Flapper Dolly Sisters Scandal 1927

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Estate sale find, original vintage 1927 Jazz Age program for the
The Casino de Paris,
filled with several great Art Deco ads for such firms as Cunard and The White Star Line, Fiat, and Joseph Paquin, just to name a few.
The Casino de Paris, located at 16, rue de Clichy, is one of the well known music halls of Paris, with a history dating back to the 18th century. Contrary to what the name might suggest, it is a performance venue, not a gambling house.
Over the decades, performers who have played the Casino de Paris have included Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, Josephine Baker, Micheline Bernardini, Tino Rossi, Line Renaud, Shakin' Stevens, Carla Bruni, Violetta Villas, and Zizi Jeanmaire; writers who have contributed work have included Serge Gainsbourg and Jean Ferrat; Yves Saint Laurent designed for the Casino in the 1970s, and poster artists have included Ertéand Jules Cheret.
The
program
features the Dolly Sisters:
Rosie Dolly (1892-1970) and Jenny Dolly (1892-1941), known professionally as The Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin dancers, singers and actresses, popular in vaudeville and
theater
during the 1910s and 1920s. Both sisters also appeared in two silent films.
In 1925, the sisters met retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge while they were performing in London. Jenny began an affair with Selfridge (Rosie also reportedly had an affair with him). Selfridge lavished Jenny with expensive gifts and funded both sisters' gambling habit. The Dolly Sisters reportedly gambled approximately million of Selfridge's money away.  While she was still involved with Selfridge, Jenny Dolly began seeing French pilot Max Constant. In 1933, Selfridge offered Jenny million to marry him.
Before she gave Selfridge an answer, she decided to go on one last holiday with Constant.  While the two were returning to Paris, Constant crashed the sports car in which they were traveling near Bordeaux. Jenny sustained serious injuries (her stomach had been displaced into her lung chamber) that required dozens of operations and plastic surgeries to reconstruct her face.
To pay her medical expenses, Jenny sold off a portion of her jewelry collection. After the majority of Jenny's financial earnings were wiped out, Selfridge paid for Jenny's medical treatments although the two never married.
Softcover, illustrated, unpaginated, approx 1/8" thick, Language: French and some English, Product Dimensions: roughly 5.25" X 7.25", approximate shipping weight: 6 ounces.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The program is in overall Good used condition, signs of wear, edge tears, surface scuffs, sunning, age toning, soiling, creases, no writing, no odors. Please see images.
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