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Last week, Mary Lou was still playing the same kind of exciting piano in a jammed Greenwich Village basement bistro called the Village Vanguard-even though no bigwigs of jazz happened to be around to do any picking up and kissing...
...outskirts of Paris one day in 1946, Reeves Lewenthal, a wide-awake young U.S. art dealer, stopped his car, got out and ruefully inspected a flat tire. It was a blowout all right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...
...Japanese prints. The painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until, in 1917, it was sold to a café on the Rue des Petits Carreaux. What happened after that, how the painting eventually got to the bistro outside Paris, nobody seemed to know...
...night Elsa threw a slumming party in Antibes (Darryl Zanuck and Rita were along), ordered dinner at the popular bistro Félix au Port. The table was on the sidewalk, and almost at once a crowd gathered. When it turned out that they were not autograph hunters but merely folk grumbling at the sight of a lavish dinner, the party moved inside...
Last weekend a plainclothesman sighted Crazy Pete and René drinking with a girl in a Montmartre bistro. René saw the detective edging toward a phone, and suspected the lady friend of betraying him. He shot at her across the table and missed. While bystanders helped the cop subdue René, Pierrot made another escape, out the front door...