In Popular Culture
- Setting for scene in the 1973 film The Way We Were
- Recreated in the 2006 motion picture Infamous
- Elmo Restaurant and Lounge on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan is named for the nightclub
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)