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...seldom mentioned reverently in a nightclub, and His story has never been made into a floor show-until last year in Manhattan. Since then the gospel story, sung in a spiritual called John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this world. Recently...
...John ("Barney") Bader, 29-year-old president of the local, acquiesced to the demands of the members, appointed a trial board to investigate 1) Stone's charges against Lundquist, Keppler & friends; 2) charges against Stone and his helpers that they had defamed the Lundquist faction. Principals in the fight were meanwhile suspended. Last month, 2,000 members assembled to hear the first group of the trial board's reports and pass judgment. The meeting opened with music and drum majorettes cavorting on the stage, fell into a hush when the trial board began to read a report...
...Kathleen Dell school have both contributed to the recently chosen cast of the Harvard Dramatic Club's sixty-second production, "Too Much Johnson," the second play of the current season. This farcical comedy is being directed by Tod Squior '43, with Leonard Kent '43 as Assistant Director and Barney Lefferts '44 as Director's Assistant...
Manhattan has many a hotspot, many a white-tie joint, but few nightclubs in which a connoisseur of jazz would care to be found. Two years ago a mild-mannered little Trenton, N. J. shoe-store owner named Barney Josephson (no kin to Author Matthew Josephson) opened a subterranean nightclub in downtown Manhattan. He wanted the kind of place where people like himself would not be sneered at by waiters, cigaret and hat-check girls, or bored by a commercial girl show. He called it Café Society, and turned loose some excellent comic artists (among them Peggy Bacon, William...
Last week Barney Josephson opened an uptown branch of Café Society, smack in the heart of the swank East Side, next door to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. On the nightclub's two-story-high walls. Artist Anton Refregier painted soft-toned satirical murals...