The Cabaret Beat
Ian Frazier on Ellin Mackay, a prodigy débutante of the Harold Ross era.
"Why We Go to Cabarets: A Post-Debutante Explains." — The byline that first connected Ian Frazier to The New Yorker, a 1925 essay by Ellin Mackay explaining that young women preferred the democratic excitement of cabarets to oppressive "stag lines" of suitable young men.