Walton Biggerstaff training Forbidden City dancers (1944)
I had the pleasure of chatting with cartoonist and herstorian Trina Robbins at WonderCon today. Earlier in the week in the course of my habitual internet research, I discovered that she recently finished writing a book about the Chinese American nightclub scene that thrived in San Francisco from the late 1930s to the early 60s. Due to be released sometime in the fall, Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs will be structured as a collection of oral history interviews with performers from this exciting era. According to Trina, the book will also feature lots of photos. I can't wait!
Stay tuned for a post about Noel Toy, a burlesque dancer who worked at the Forbidden City nightclub during the early 1940s...
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