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...vintage. Manhattan is also proud of its nightspots, where the atmosphere, though equally shady, is not so crystal-pure. When Repeal put an end to Prohibition's frowzy summer, Manhattan's undercover nightclubs, legally uncorked at last, popped and fizzed into a boom-de-ay of business gaiety. When the egregious Billy Rose converted a theatre into his Casino de Paree, where hundreds instead of scores could wine, dine, dance and watch a show, he started something. The Casino de Paree died three years ago, but the French Casino, also a remodeled theatre, is still packing...
...without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when Will Rogers caroled Ta-rah-rah-boom-de-ay. Broadway Melody of 1938 is the first picture in which Miss Powell has had a dancing partner; she performs with George Murphy an Astaire and Rogerish number, I'm Feeling Like a Million, which is good but not as good as Astaire and Rogers. Apparently for lack of other...
...Boom de-ay"--"The Bowery"--"The Sidewalks of new York" "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"--Daisy bell" ("A Bicycle Built for Two")--"Comrades"--"Little Annie Rooney"--"She May Have Seen Better Days"--"The Band Played On"--"After the Ball"--"A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934) was one of the best-sellers of 1935, but Franz Werfel had written good books before that. Two of them (Class Reunion, The Man Who Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea...
...Ay, women are apt to tell before the intrigue, as men after it, and so show themselves the vainer...