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...Bricktop--Lulu White...
...Three of Reinhardt's four companions are Italian jazzmen-not members of the Quintet of The Hot Club of France, as the album cover claims-and they go about as far in international understanding as a rhythm section can go. As for Reinhardt. in such numbers as Bricktop, Beyond the Sea and his own Djangology, he is by turns piquant and fiery, still a master at gracefully dandling a tune...
...dancing (about $6.75 per person). There is little night life in Sweden and Norway, where strip shows are forbidden, but some restaurants stay open until 4 a.m. with bands for dancing. Best jazz is at Vienna's Fatty's Saloon and the Adebar, Rome's Bricktop's on the Via Veneto, and Paris' Caveau de la Huchette. To end the evening, Paris has the traditional onion soup at Les Halles, Paris' great produce market. There is also Le Drug Store on the Champs Elysées, where the spécialti...
...Rome, a reporter dropped around to her night club for a chat with Bricktop (Ada Smith Du Congé), famed as a cabaret hostess among Paris' Left Bank literary set in the '20s. Asked if she remembered F. Scott Fitzgerald, the throaty West Virginia-born Negro songstress said: "Sho-nuf darling, I remember all those darlings. There was Scott, and his wife Zelda, she was nice. There was Hemingway, too, already famous. And Louis Bromfield and John Steinbeck. Steinbeck, he's my darling of all darlings, except of course Cole Porter. He's my favorite...
...Bricktop, who has black hair now, admits that "in America I didn't catch on. Let's face it. Americans are used to Negro entertainers who run places to go slumming in-not at all the sort of place I had for so long in Paris and which I tried to have in New York. I just find it easier to pursue happiness in Europe. That doesn't mean that I don't feel intensely American." She reopened her place in Paris after the war. But on the way there, she fell in love with Rome...