Stanisława Nowicka & Orkiestra tan. „Parlophon" -- Pytasz mnie, czemu nie płaczę (You're Asking Me, Wy I'm Not Crying) (Henryk Wars/Andrzej Włast), Tango z rewii „Tęcza nad Warszawą" (Tango from the revue „Rainbow Over Warsaw), Parlophon 1931
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Stanisława NOWICKA (born in 1905, Warsaw ) Polish dancer and singer, called „Queen Of Tango" and „Polish Marlene Dietrich". In 1929 she was the first performer of Jerzy Petersburski's famous tango „Oh Donna Clara" (Polish title: Tango Milonga) in theatre revue „Morskie Oko" in Warsaw. In 1933 she recorded for Syrena-Electro her interpretations of two great hits of Marlene Dietrich: „Jonny" and „Peter" (Polish title „Harry"). Low and sensuous timbre of her voice made Nowicka not only the master interpreter of tangos, but also of Russian romances and the French chanson. Many of them she recorded for Syrena Electro, Homocord, Parlophon and Columbia. In spite of that, her recordings are rare and very much serched for by the collectors.
In 1936 Stanisława Nowicka travelled to New York as a correspondent of a Polish daily „Słowo Polskie" never to return to Poland. Most of her life in USA (until 1985, when she was paralysed by the stroke) she was active as a singer (in 1942, together with a poet Julian Tuwim, she gave a great show for the fighting Poland in Carnegie Hall), a dancer (for many decades she led the Polish National Dances school in New Jersey), activist of Polish Red Cross and translator of the English and American literatures. She was also active as a theosophist, running a Tarot, clairvoyance studio in Yorktown, where she lived, and being the active member of American Theosophical Society. She wrote and published a bestselling monography of Houdini. She died in Yorktown in 1990, after 5 years of her life as an invalid.

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