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Harlem cabaret in The Sport of the Gods (film 1921) based on Paul Laurence Dunbar's novel by the same name (1902).
dance for partnerless young men. The Savoy opens at three in the afternoon and closes at three in the morning. One can spend twelve hours in this jazz palace for sixty-five cents, and the price of a dinner or an occasional sustaining sandwich and drink. The music is good, the dancers are gay, and setting is conducive to joy.
From Negro Life in New York's Harlem by Wallace Thurman (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1928)