Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French ingenuity has managed, in the past to sweeten alluringly the uses of advertisement. Managers of theatres once obtained publicity by purchasing the services of some penurious gentleman, shaving his head, and seating him, haughtily tailored, in some famed cabaret, with a blurb for the show tattooed upon his naked poll. Last week a bouillon company evolved a sleight even more alarming. An army of ragged sandwich men was sent into the streets, armed with bundles of red feathers upon which the name of the product was printed in black. Each feather had a hook. The sandwich men hooked them...
...likewise that John W. Davis, onetime Ambassador to the court of St. James's, onetime Democratic candidate for President, is acting as attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (TIME, July 6, MUSIC), defendant in a breach of promise suit for $1,000,000 started by Evan Burrows Fontaine, famed cabaret dancer...
...only Florence Mills familiar to the public is Florence Mills, the darktown strutter, famed Negro cabaret dancer. This fact, disregarded by the composer of the Times inept headline, caused the well-informed readers to gag upon their three-minute eggs. The real bride was, they discovered, white...
...Harlem Cabaret, where Othello, Emperor Jones, Al Jolson and other famed characters take part...
Albert Carroll leads the parodists a hurricane pace in the several roles of "Joseph Schildkraut as Benvenuto Cellini," Sergeant Squirt, Lynn Fontanne (in Mr. and Mrs. Guardsman) Pavlowa (L'Irlandesa Rosa dell' Abie) and Florence Mills (in the Harlem Cabaret...