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Cleon Throckmorton, Katherine Mullen, and others at the Krazy Kat Klub entrance

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English: Title: Krazy Kat
  • Abstract/medium: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Description: 23-year-old artist Cleon "The Throck" Throckmorton (1897–1965) (far right), his Chicago-born muse and future wife 18-year-old Kathryn Marie "Kat" Mullin (1902–1994) (far left), and three unidentified friends at the back-alley entrance of Throckmorton's speakeasy, The Krazy Kat, circa July 1921. This Jazz Age speakeasy operated in Washington, D.C. during the Prohibition era. The speakeasy's name derived from the androgynous title character of a comic strip that was popular at the time, and this namesake communicated that the venue catered to clientele of all sexual persuasions, including polysexual and homosexual patrons. The venue became a clandestine rendezvous spot for Washington, D.C.'s gay community to meet without fear of exposure. By 1922, the speakeasy had become locally infamous, and municipal authorities publicly identified the venue as a "disorderly house" (a euphemism for a brothel). Its libertine clientele were known for their public advocacy of free love ("unrestricted impulse").

    Six months after this photograph, Cleon Throckmorton and Kathryn Mullin were married in January 1922 in Manhattan, New York. A model, singer, sketch artist and costume designer, Mullin was known for her radio and stage performances as a ukulele player with Harry Crandall's Saturday Nighters. For her stage performances, she was billed as "The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs." When not performing on stage or radio, she was an expert in women's saber fencing and gave public exhibitions. After four years of marriage, Mullin sued Throckmorton for divorce on December 17, 1926, after catching him in an extramarital affair with an unidentified woman—possibly film actress Juliet Brenon (1895–1979)—in their Greenwich Village apartment in Manhattan. Mullin's friend, African-American stage actress Blanche Dunn, served as a witness on her behalf in the divorce suit. Throckmorton did not contest the divorce, and Mullin did not seek alimony. Immediately after his divorce from Mullin, Throckmorton married Juliet Brenon on March 13, 1927.
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