Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate heroine of a love affair which doesn't quite come off a chorus girl, the wife of a millionaire and finally a sweet young thing. For her suitors, there is Franchot Tone who outrages her sense of fair play; Gene Raymond whose faithlessness forces her into a cabaret; and then the millionaire Brennan, who proves her mettle. She unfortunately marries the most unlikely of the three...
Raft's rise from coal miner, gigolo, and cabaret performer, to night club owner is accomplished by his repeated refusal to mix business with pleasure, firing his dancing partners when they interfere with his consuming desire to be famous. Becoming a sensation in London and Paris with Helen (Carole Lombard), he enters the World War as a publicity stunt, expecting the fracas to be ended in a few weeks. Helen loses her hero-worship, and marries an English noble...
...Scandals (Fox) is a mass of trivia garnishing the backstage romance of Jimmy Martin (Rudy Vallee) and Kitty Donnelly (Alice Faye), a romance almost put asunder by a Park Avenue hussy (Adrienne Ames). As he croons, Vallee regards the onetime cabaret girl whom Mrs. Vallee recently named as corespondent in a suit for divorce with saucer eyes, but otherwise comports himself with poise and wooden dignity. Pelican-nosed Jimmy Durante fondles a wooden duck, raspingly sings ''My Dog Loves Your...
Broadway--$.30-.40-.35.* $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old May-fair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...
...Argonne, from which only 15 members of his company of 250 emerged alive, he was wounded in the right arm. burned by mustard gas, cited for bravery. After the Armistice while stationed in the Rhine he got into a drunken brawl in a Coblenz cabaret. He was court-martialed and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged in July 1920. Two years later Secretary of War Weeks permitted him to re-enlist to serve out his term, get an honorable discharge and thus qualify...