Halina DORSOWNA (Dorsovna) (French born Polish, Breslau [Wrocław] 1908 - 1993 La Garenne-Colombes) was a cabaret vedette during the 1920s particularly in French cabaret music hall Folies Bergère in 1928. Born in February 21, 1908 in Breslau, Poland in the SCHWOTZER family (probably a Jewish Ashkenase family) Miss DORSOWNA's mother who was a pianist at that time taught her to sing and dance. During the Russian revolution mother and daughter were in Russia and experienced famine. (According to some articles she was the first dancer at the Warsaw Opera in the 1920s but it was probably a mistake of the journalists who mixed up Halina SCHWOTZER with the prima ballerina whose name was Halina SCHMOLZ because their names looked so similar). Around 1919, Czech soldiers based near the Volga put Halina and her mother on a train in the direction of Prague. She began a career in the cabarets of the Czech capital where she appeared practically nude on stage. Her success (around 1923 - 1925) took her to Paris. In 1928, at the age of only 20, she had a great triumph in "La Grande Folie" a review directed by Louis LEMARCHAND at the Folies Bergère in Paris, France. Then she began a tour of European capitals which started with London in 1928, then Madrid in 1929 where she performed at the Alkazar, Rome where she performed at the Apollo, the following year the did in Brussels at the Merry Grill. In 1931, LEMARCHAND asked her to get back on stage of the Folies Bergère DORSOWNA in the review called "L'Usine à folies". Being a star of the Folies Bergère, DORSOWNA was part of the fashionable and affluent elite of Paris during the interwar period. Accustomed to the famous Parisian brasserie La Coupole, she was around other personalities like Joséphine BAKER, the Dolly Sisters or artists like Man RAY, Georges BRAQUE or BRASSAI. She wore outfits design by the biggest fashion designers of the time such as Paul POIRET or Elsa SCHIAPARELLI. Around 1930 Halina DORSOWNA met Henry Léon DUTEY, a General of the French army who came from a rich family and was about 60 years old married her. The couple moved to the ground floor of a large Art Deco house in the most expensive and rich residential area near Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The interior, furnished with Chinese objects and First Empire pieces of furniture coexisting with a set of mirrored Art Deco pieces of furniture, art works by artist such as PICASSO were hung on the walls. An American artist living in Paris portrayed this interior on a portrait of DORSOWNA who was wearing a pink negligee. The couple received the diplomatic and artistic worldwide celebrities such as Leon WOITZEKHOVSKY, Natalie KRASSOVSKA-LESLIE and her mother Lydia KRASSOVSKA (who was a dancer with Diaghilev's Ballet Russes), Miss SADOVSKA and her daughter Helena. During this period DORSOWNA maintained an extra marital relationship with Mr BINNER, a wealthy Jewish Polish man who immigrated to Brazil during the Second World War. DORSOWNA and her husband DUTEY were in the French occupied zone of West Berlin. According to DORSOWNA, her husband was a member of the counterintelligence and Halina helped him in her own way. In her thirties, speaking English, Polish, Russian and also German, always very beautiful and extravagant, she certainly served French intelligence. After her husband's death, Halina bought a large studio in Monte Carlo, which was painted in different shades of green, where she spent few months every year. She was a friend of Princess Antoinette of MONACO and spent time in the great society. She died in April 14, 1993 in La Garenne-Colombes, France. Without any relatives, she left her properties to the Polish Catholic Church in Paris, which were scattered during sales at the Drouot auction house.