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Duning wrote the film's theme to counterpoint "Moonglow". Stoloff's recording spent three weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1956, and became a gold record. It is also featured in Martin Scorsese's film The Aviator (2004), when Leonardo DiCaprio (as Howard Hughes) and Cate Blanchett (as Katharine Hepburn) fly over Los Angeles at
The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs. Today, men are admitted as guests. [2]
Heterodoxy was the name adopted by a feminist debating group in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the early 20th century. [1] It was notable for providing a forum for the development of more radical conceptions of feminism than the suffrage and women's club movements of the time. [2]
The Moonglows, "I Knew from the Start", 1956 The Moonglows, "Over and Over Again", 1956. The Moonglows were an American R&B group in the 1950s. Their song "Sincerely" went to number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 20 on the Billboard Juke Box chart.
It met first at the Cosmopolitan Club (New York City) (a women's club) and met four to five times a year at multiple locations. [17] Membership was capped at 40 members by the 1950s; members included Ruth S. Granniss, who was librarian to the Grolier Club. [18] [19] Jamaica Women's Club, Jamaica, Queens; Manor Club, Pelham Manor
The club movement became part of Progressive era social reform, which was reflected by many of the reforms and issues addressed by club members. [4] According to Maureen A. Flanagan, [5] many women's clubs focused on the welfare of their community because of their shared experiences in tending to the well-being of home-life.
In 1909, the Cosmos Club formed as a club for governesses, leasing space in the Gibson Building on East 33rd Street. [2] The following year, the club became the Women's Cosmopolitan Club, "organized," according to The New York Times, "for the benefit of New York women interested in the arts, sciences, education, literature, and philanthropy or in sympathy with those interested."
Cotton Club on 125th Street in New York City, December 2013. An incarnation of the Cotton Club opened on 125th Street in Harlem in 1978. [33] [34] James Haskins wrote at the time, "Today, there is a new incarnation of the Cotton Club that sits on the most western end of the 125th Street under the massive Manhattanville viaduct. The windowless ...