Which dancing troupe was founded by irishwoman Margaret Kelly at the Folies Bergere, France in 1932?
Margaret Kelly Leibovici she had a great talent. At the age of 14, Kelly left school and joined a Scottish dance troupe called the Hot Jocks. Nine months later, she was contracted to the Scala in Berlin by noted producer Alfred Jackson, manager of the Jackson Girls. Kelly remained at the Scala for 5 years. Beginning in 1930, Kelly danced in Paris for the Folies Bergère. In 1932, when she was 22, she created her own troupe there called the Bluebell Girls. In 1939, she married Marcel Leibovici (1904-1961), a stateless Romanian Jew, pianist and composer at the Folies Bergère. During the Second
Folies Bergère in the United States and other similar shows, including a longstanding revue, the Las Vegas Folies Bergere, at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and the "Teatro Follies" in Mexico. In the 1930s and '40s the impresario Clifford C. Fischer staged several Folies Bergere productions in the United States. These included the "Folies Bergère of 1939" at the Broadway Theater in New York and the "Folies Bergère of 1944" at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Las Vegas Folies Bergere, which opened in 1959, closed at the end of March 2009 after nearly 50 years in operation.