Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chauve Souris owed much of its success to Nicolai Remizoff, its art director. His latest achievement is the " Balagan," a Russian cabaret replacing the old Little Club on 44th Street, Manhattan. Kotchevski, dancer of the Chauve Souris, appears there nightly...
...already seen in America, Though why he should is, of course, quite another matter. And then there is From Dover Street to Dixie at the; Pavilion, a new revue, featuring in its second section Florence Mills and members of the colored company that, used to be at the Plantation Cabaret...
...sincere plea for the investigation and improvement of the so-called lower world in a great South American city. Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests. Dr. Monsalvat, the hero, tries to rescue Nacha Regules from her cabaret life; and from the study of her position is led to begin a campaign for the salvation of all such characters. The pleading and sociology of the book rather get in the way of the story; but, despite this obvious objection and for all its unpleasant story, Nacha Regules...
...newspaper reporter who is a go-getter to the extent of going and getting the queen. She (the queen), is full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip marries lively Marjorie. Shortly, after the preliminary measure of a divorce, Marjorie attaches herself and affections to one Roy North. Philip finds a loving little consolation...
...world. She doesn't catch on. That, of course, is partly because she is an American, by birth, study, and career. It is to be doubted that any singer has ever made a debut with the fortunate circumstances under which Rosa Ponselle made hers. She had been a cabaret singer in New Haven, Conn. She was just out of vaudeville. Gatti Casazza thought he had found a second Farrar. For her first operatic appearance, the New Haven girl opened the Metropolitan season singing opposite Caruso in Forza del Destino. She had an enormous triumph that night. Since then...