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'''Le Boeuf sur le Toit''' (French for "The beef (or possibly ox) on the roof") was a gay drinking club in Orange Street, Soho, from the 1920s.
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'''Le Boeuf sur le Toit''' (French for "The ox on the roof"; named after a famous restaurant in Paris) was a gay nightclub in Orange Street, Soho. It was "the most luxurious and fashionable 'Gay' club in wartime London" and was known in the 1930s as “Molly’s”.<ref>http://elvirabarney.wordpress.com/tag/dolly-mayers/</ref>
  
"But the best was Le Boeuf sur le Toit, beautifully furnished. Leonard Blackett at the piano, Teddy Jackson owned it... After the war ... Dolly [Mayers] bought the Boeuf and changed its name to the Romilly Club which is where [[Guy Burgess|Guy]] [Burgess] fell down the stairs and had to go to hospital. Someone pushed him actually."<ref>Jack Hewitt, ''Sunday Times'' magazine, 7 April 1991. Quoted in ''[[On Queer Street]]'' by [[Hugh David]].</ref>
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"But the best was Le Boeuf sur le Toit, beautifully furnished. Leonard Blackett at the piano, Teddy Jackson owned it... After the war ... [[Dolly Mayers|Dolly]] [Mayers] bought the Boeuf and changed its name to the Romilly Club which is where [[Guy Burgess|Guy]] [Burgess] fell down the stairs and had to go to hospital. Someone pushed him actually."<ref>Jack Hewitt, ''Sunday Times'' magazine, 7 April 1991. Quoted in ''[[On Queer Street]]'' by [[Hugh David]].</ref>
  
 
See [[Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs]].
 
See [[Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs]].
 
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[[Category:Night Clubs]]
 
  
 
== References ==
 
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http://patrickleighfermor.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/joan-leigh-fermor-obituary-from-the-independent/
 
http://patrickleighfermor.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/joan-leigh-fermor-obituary-from-the-independent/
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Latest revision as of 16:58, 23 January 2014

Le Boeuf sur le Toit (French for "The ox on the roof"; named after a famous restaurant in Paris) was a gay nightclub in Orange Street, Soho. It was "the most luxurious and fashionable 'Gay' club in wartime London" and was known in the 1930s as “Molly’s”.[1]

"But the best was Le Boeuf sur le Toit, beautifully furnished. Leonard Blackett at the piano, Teddy Jackson owned it... After the war ... Dolly [Mayers] bought the Boeuf and changed its name to the Romilly Club which is where Guy [Burgess] fell down the stairs and had to go to hospital. Someone pushed him actually."[2]

See Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs.

References

  1. http://elvirabarney.wordpress.com/tag/dolly-mayers/
  2. Jack Hewitt, Sunday Times magazine, 7 April 1991. Quoted in On Queer Street by Hugh David.

http://patrickleighfermor.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/joan-leigh-fermor-obituary-from-the-independent/