Paris, La Belle Époque: Mimi Bluette, Vals - Meximarimba Band, 1928

Meximarimba Band con Guitarras Hawaianas - Mimi Bluette (Fior de Mi Jardin), Vals (B.J. Garcia) Brunswick 1928 (USA) NOTE: 1. Not much is known about Meximarimba Band. In 1926 a sort of a “Mexican” band, using such label name recorded several sides for the Vocalion Records. It vanishes after that to reappear again in 1928 in the New York Brunswick Records studio as Meximarimba Band con Guitarras Hawaianas, led and arranged by well known East Coast dance bandleader Louis Katzman. The “new” Meximarimba Band recorded several “Mexican music” sides at Brunswick, some of them as tipica accompaniment for the renowned Cuban actress and singer, Pilar Arcos. 2. “Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino” (Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden) - an Italian novel published by Italian writer and poet Guido da Verona in 1917 it was a huge commercial success, selling 300,000 copies – enormous success in Italy in the early 1920s, when illiteracy characterized the majority of the population. A film based on the novel directed by Carlo Di Palma and starring Monica Vitti was released in 1976. Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris of the beginning of the 20th century, where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger, she falls in love with… 3. Guido da Verona (b. 1881 – Milan, d. 1939) was one of the most commercially successful Italian writers in the interwar period, particularly when he published novel "Mimì Bluette, fiore del mio giardino" in 1922. After some years of increasing literary success, Guido da Verona wrote in 1929 the parody novel which was an implicit satire against fascism.. Therefore, he became unpopular with the Fascist regime and was more and more marginalized until he committed suicide in Milan at age 57.