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Title: Foxtrot from Warsaw: Zula Pogorzelska -To mi wystarczy! 1931 View count: 1321 Rating: 4.90 (10 ratings) Description: Zula POGORZELSKA (née Zofia, I-voto Runowiecka, b.1898- d.1936) One of Three Great singing ladies of pre-war Warsaw (other two being: Hanka Ordonówna and Mira Zimińska). She was also an excellent dancer and a comedy actress, her legs were considered „the most beautiful in Warsaw". In 1921-25 she performed in the cabaret „Qui pro Quo", then in „Perskie Oko" (- the cabaret she founded together with her husband, also an actor Konrad Tom, the real name: Runowiecki). After a few premieres, the cabaret was transformed into „Morskie Oko" - designed as the most fashionable, grand-revue theatre a la „Moulin Rouge". It's director, Andrzej Włast -- who was also the author of dozens of most popular song texts of inter --war period in Poland - used to travel once a month to Paris to pick up new ideas for his performances in Warsaw. The brightest star of "Morskie Oko" was, ofcourse, Zula Pogorzelska. She sung solo and in duets with Eugeniusz Bodo, Ludwik Sempoliński or Tadeusz Olsza. However, in 1934 her dazzling career was abruptly broken by onset of the cancer of her spine. She -- who had done the best of her art with her singing and her legs -- suddenly couldn't make a step. She withdrew from the stage and after a short disease, she died in 1936. If Poland ever had a flapper star of the Louise Brooks's genre, it was Zula Pogorzelska. She was a real diseuse of the revue and cabaret. „In her, met the finesse, wit, sentimentality, the vigorous humour and intelligence" -- wrote the major theatrical critic of the time, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński. The composers: Artur Gold, Jerzy Petersburski, Zygmunt Karasiński did have in her the ideal performer of their shimmies, black bottoms or foxtrotts. For the Polish woman of 1920s, Pogorzelska personified the modern, independent la savante. She was the first public performer of the new crazy dance: the charleston in Poland. In 1930-34 she acted in 9 comedy films: e.g. "Sto metrów miłości" (Hundred Meters Of Love), „Romeo And Julcia", „Kocha, lubi, szanuje" (He Loves, He Likes Or He Respects Me?). Recording: Zula Pogorzelska -- To mi wystarczy! (It'll Do To Satisfy Me!) (K.Oberfeld /A.Włast), Syrena-Electro 1931 The song is a monologue of a flapper girl presenting the long list of her demands (jewels, furs, villa in the seaside, trips to Paris etc.) and ponting it with the repeated mot „And it'll do to satisfy me". Tags: charleston, flapper, kabaret, lata, międzywojenna, morskie, oko, polish, polska, pro, przedwojenna, qui, quo, the, trzydzie, warszawa, Author: 240252 |
