Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Kojo Tovalou Houenou, nephew of King Behanzin of Dahomey (West African province), received one franc (about six cents) damages for having been thrown out of a Montmartre cabaret (TIME, Aug. 20). The cabaret manager who ejected the Prince was fined 200 francs ($12) and sentenced to 15 days' imprisonment, but the sentence was suspended. Witnesses for the defense stated that the Prince and his brother were thrown out of the establishment, not because they were black, but because they were not in evening clothes. They also stated that no violence was used. The Americans who were alleged to have...
...railway. One starts at the peak and slips downward; along the adjoining track the other climbs steadily to the top. The motive power is a man's love. Both are dancers; the first of the type usually called "nice," whose blood is burned with ragtime rhythms; the second, a cabaret performer. A London flat, a Canadian barroom, a bridal suite at the Savoy, and a music hall dressing room in Paris are the successive backgrounds. Romance is omnipresent...
Richard Bennett makes a stable but never startling hero. Kathlene Mac- Donell is rather better as the cabaret performer. Florence Eldridge, rather monotonously emotional at first, comes sharply to life when her time comes to die. Nothing in her life becomes her like the leaving...
Rose Briar, otherwise known as Adelyn Bushnell, is very effective as an ingenuous, and consequently scheming cabaret singer, who is employed to compromise a husband whose wife thinks she wants a divorce. The play develops into a battle between Rose Briar, who wants Mr. Paradee, and Mrs. Valentine, who wants not only Mr. Paradee, but Mr. Valentine besides. She also craves attention, and having thus three weak spots, she falls an easy prey to Rose Briar, who has only one. Nevertheless, the salvoes of baby-talk that passed between them and their several male satellites almost finished the Playgoer...
...first act, the audience was astounded by a regular cabaret scene, with a table, a piano, and two short turns, each of which was loudly encored. Miss Jill Middleton proved to be a very satisfactory dancer, and Miss Bushnell recited a song with deadly effect. She recited the same song several other times at critical moments, and also another song. But as a singer, Miss Bushnell is a wonderful-looking actress...