Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both shows . . . gross hitting approximately $2,750 ... an all-time high. Audience included the Secretary of the Public Morality Council and members of the London County Council [aldermen] with the stripper proving the most-dressed representative of her clan ever seen. . . . "C. B. Cochrane opened his new Trocadero cabaret revue the same night. Entitled 'Eve in the Park,' show features a nude girl enclosed in a huge glass shower-bath, stepping out and dressing from skin to outer garments. Artistic and alluring, the twist went over nicely...
...musical comedy without infringing upon strict British cinema-quota laws. For industry and ambition, the effort deserves top marks. The producers not only imported Hollywood Scenarist Dwight Taylor, U. S. Songwriters Mack Gordon & Harry Revel and Manhattan Actress Whitney Bourne, they even used a back stage plot about a cabaret entertainer who becomes a radio singer while her partner (Louis Borell) goes to Hollywood, laid the scene in Paris, dressed the star as much as possible like Eleanor Powell...
...Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade why she has decided to visit a cabaret with her chauffeur (John Trent...
...their house. After a few nips more, they go to a family dinner, where Nick drinks the other male guests into a stupor. When it turns out that the scapegrace husband of Mrs. Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds him in a cabaret but he has barely time to drink his health before the scapegrace staggers out to be murdered. Detective Charles then settles down to drink and work in earnest. His evening reaches its peak when, in a room containing half a dozen dangerous characters and a police aide (Sam Levene...
...Detective Charles has pinned responsibility for the murder to the least likely character involved, After the Thin Man has introduced to cinema audiences as amusing a group of suspects as Author Hammett, its No. 1 purveyor of this specialty, has yet contributed to the screen. Included are: a monosyllabic cabaret keeper (Joseph Calleia) who shoots at Detective Charles in an apartment house basement; Mrs. Charles's Aunt Katherine (Jessie Ralph), who breaks photographers' cameras with an umbrella as big as a pole-vault pole; mild young David Graham (James Stewart), in love with Mrs. Charles's cousin...