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It was to Havana what the Moulin Rouge was to Paris or the Blue Note to New York. The brightest jewel in 1950s Cuban nightlife, Tropicana was a "paradise under the stars" where you could gamble, hear the finest mambo and jazz musicians, and ogle the extravagantly risqué floorshows. Nat "King" Cole played Tropicana; so did Josephine Baker. Americans-celebrities and suburbanites both-were drawn to its kinetic sensuality and tropical setting. And Tropicana remained a uniquely Cuban institution; unlike most Havana nightclubs, it operated free from the American mob's control.

Journalist Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox, widow of Tropicana's last owner, vividly portray the cultural richness and roiling social problems of pre-Revolutionary Cuba and take the reader on an intimate insider's tour of one of the world's most glamorous venues at its most brilliant moment.

ROSA LOWINGER has written for Sculpture, ARTnews, and Latina magazines. Her essay on preservation in Cuba, "Repairing Things," was published in Cuba in Mind. She lives in Los Angeles.

OFELIA FOX married Tropicana owner Martín Fox in 1952 and devoted herself to helping him run the nightclub until they moved to Miami in 1962. After her husband's death she was a teacher and playwright. She lives in Glendale, California.