Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Tinney (stage comedian) began a Scottish bagpipe act in a second-rate Chicago cabaret, appeared to falter, was helped from the stage. Next day he said: "Tell the world I'm neither sick nor broke...
...Cabaret (Gilda Gray). Nimble-limbed, a good little girl dances in a cabaret to support her family. She shields her weak brother accused of murder. Tom Moore is the Irish cop who makes love to her when he is not busy trailing the real murderer. The directing is stagy, the supporting cast feeble. The story by that prolific scribbler Owen Davis is unhappily reminiscent of that whooping stage success Broadway...
...performance on April 21 at the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia. This performance will be followed by a dance. The trip will close with a presentation at the Mecca Temple in New York on Friday evening, April 22. As last year, the performance will be followed by a cabaret, commencing March 28. Tickets will be on sale at the clubhouse, Herrick's and Leavitt and Peirce...
...letter does not blush."-ED. *An error, the name is "Phipps."-ED. "The question was: "How did Judith, the Biblical character, murder General Holofernes ?" And the answer: "Judith murdered General Holofernes by cutting off his head."-ED. *The question was: "Why do nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers and cabaret girls object strenuously to the Rockefeller carillon in New York and to the proposed Crane carillon in Chicago ?" And the correct answer: "Nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers, cabaret girls, etc., object to carillons because the carillons disturb their hard-earned Sunday morning slumbers...
...personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes...