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Old foxtrot from Warsaw: "Madame" - Janina Brochwiczówna & Chór Juranda, ca 1933

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Janina Brochwiczówna with Chór Juranda & Orkiestra Taneczna "Odeon" - Madame (Godwin/ Dorjan), Odeon ca 1933 (Poland)

NOTE: Janina BROCHWICZÓWNA (née Janina Wojakowska) (b.1910 in Moscow, Russia - d.1997 in Bretagne, France) Polish singer and cabaret actress. She debuted in 1930 in theatre "Kometa" in Warsaw, in next years she also appeared on cabaret and operetta stages, such as "Teatr Letni" (Summer Theatre), "8.30" and "Wielka Rewia" (The Grand Revue). In 1933, she featured in a comedy motion picture "Każdemu wolno kochać" (Everyone Is Allowed To Love) where, in duet with Witold Conti she sung one of greatest pre-war Polish hits, composed by Zygmunt Karasiński & Szymon Kataszek under the same title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJBId2bdiI  Premiere of that hit movie - where appeared elite of Polish prewar comedy (like Adolf Dymsza, Ludwik Lawiński or Mira Zimińska) was shortly in advance of announcement of a new constitution in Poland (So-called "April constitution of 1935") which developed many democratic ideas of the formerly constitution of 1926. 
  One of new articles - which ever since till today has been obligatory in Poland - guaranteed no penalisation for acts of homosexuality, from age of 15 (whereas in most of European democracies in that time,  homosexuality was penalised). That revolutionary article provoked little stages of Warsaw to perform the song "Everyone Is Allowed To Love" in a satyrical way, in reference to homosexuality as no more illegal relationship. 
In September 1939, after German invasion on Poland and shortly before attack of Russia, Brochwiczówna managed to leave the country and via Romania she emigrated to France where, during the war years she performed for Polish Emigree Army. After 1945, however, she ceased her artistic activity. 

Chór JURANDA  (Jurand's Choir) was one of the most  poular male vocal bands in Poland in 1930s, ex aequo with Chór Dana. See, many other uploadings of Chór Juranda in YT.

In the slideshow are the rarities from archives of Polish pre-war poster designs

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