Florence Mills Month by Month: August        

   
1919    With Panama Trio @ Pantages, Seattle, week of August 25
   
1921    Florence joins cast of Shuffle Along
    1923    Opens in In Dover Street to Dixie @ London Pavilion
    1924    In Dixie to Broadway @ Apollo, Atlantic City
    1924    Florence turns down Ziegfeld offer of starring role in Ziegfeld Follies
    1926    Big hit in In Blackbirds of 1926 @ Champs Elysees, Paris
    1926    Opens in summer season at Kursaal Casino in Ostend Belgium
    1926   
Gives special birthday party for Kid Thompson at La Palermo restaurant in Montmartre
    1927    Florence gives farewell press statement  to British public on injustice of color bar
    1927    Spends 15 days convalescence in Baden Baden, Germany before   final return to USA

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