2. THE " ROARING TWENTIES"/
THE JAZZ AGE :
this painting by
Thomas Hart BentonThomas Hart Benton
illustrates several aspects
of the "Roaring TwentiesRoaring Twenties"
(= "les Années Folles"):

3. the emancipated
woman
who drinks and
smokes
in public and wears
her hair short :
the "flapperflapper"
she has just been
granted the right
to vote in the US
(1920)

4. Illegal alcohol
in
speakeasiesspeakeasies

5. TangoTango dancing :
a new way
of dancing

6. RudolfRudolf
ValentinoValentino
who died inwho died in
19261926
at the age ofat the age of
31.31.
He was one ofHe was one of
the firstthe first
HollywoodHollywood
starsstars
He hadHe had
thousandsthousands
of fansof fans

7. The Jazz ageThe Jazz age
(another name
for the decade)
people flock
to the
Cotton ClubCotton Club
to listen to
jazz artists

8. Book of the decadeBook of the decade
Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
published 1925
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