I'm a personality. Nobody ever came to hear me. They came to see me. — Ada (image via Jack Robinson Archive) In 1929, Ada Smith opened Bricktop's ("Chez Bricktop," she insisted), a nightclub on 66 rue Pigalle in Paris. People tell gorgeous stories about Bricktop's — the night John Steinbeck was kicked out (he apologized by sending a taxi full of roses to Ada the next day), the month Ada hired Langston Hughes as a busboy, the times Cole Porter would show up and teach guests the Charleston.
A Woman to Know: Ada Smith
A Woman to Know: Ada Smith
A Woman to Know: Ada Smith
I'm a personality. Nobody ever came to hear me. They came to see me. — Ada (image via Jack Robinson Archive) In 1929, Ada Smith opened Bricktop's ("Chez Bricktop," she insisted), a nightclub on 66 rue Pigalle in Paris. People tell gorgeous stories about Bricktop's — the night John Steinbeck was kicked out (he apologized by sending a taxi full of roses to Ada the next day), the month Ada hired Langston Hughes as a busboy, the times Cole Porter would show up and teach guests the Charleston.