Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same tale of an 1898 Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain Gary Grant. Complications begin when...
...Lynch had a variorum account. She marched into Woman's Court, declared that Mrs. Brucer and Mr. Lynch had "gone to a cabaret and gotten drunk." She charged alienation of affections and adultery. The Court permitted a disorderly conduct complaint to be lodged against the Dry crusader, later mollified the Frenchwoman with Mrs. Brucer's promise never again to see Mr. Lynch...
...streets. In 1912, Edward Marryot and the daughter of his mother's oldest friend are honeymooning, on the Titanic. In 1914, Joe Marryot is just old enough to get into the War. He spends his leaves with Fanny Bridges (Ursula Jeans), by this time grown up into a cabaret entertainer. He gets killed just before the Armistice. On New Year's Eve, 1932, Sir Robert and Lady Marryot have the champagne brought up for another New Year's toast. Lady Marryot proposes it-"that this England, which we love so much, will some day find dignity, greatness...
...Goldwyn to make his cinema comedies resemble in opulence the musical shows of the late Florenz Ziegfeld. This picture cost about $1,400,000. A chorus which is probably the handsomest ever assembled for the cinema appears twice: in the dormitory of a girls' school, then in a Mexican cabaret where Cantor hides under a table and puts on black face with the cork from a champagne bottle...
...staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this may be explained by the fact that it was after one o'clock when he arrived, and that the music at Chez Vous was fairly continuous so that, stopping king before...