Word: cabarete
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...Blue Angel," Marlene Dietrich's first film, shows her at her leggy best. In this old film, revived at the Kenmore theater, she plays "Lola Lola," a singer in a small cabaret. This is exactly what she was before Director Josef van Sternberg "discovered" her. The film in its original 1929 version was silent, but a German sound track and English subtitles have been added...
...plot concerns Herr Professor Emanuel Rath, a teacher in the local high school, who finds that Lola Lola is distracting his students. He goes to the "Blue Angel" cabaret to catch the truants, but instead falls in love with Lola Lola. He marries her and joins the troupe of actors. Soon he is reduced to playing stooge for the magician. In one horrifying scene he is made to crow like a rooster on the stage while he watches his wife flirt with the strong man in the wings. He finally goes mad and, after an attempt to kill Lola Lola...
Unlike Michigan, Yale doesn't build an orchestrated night club and an informal cabaret for its charges. Unlike Harvard, it doesn't shove students off to costly restaurants and local saloons as soon as the sun sets. Within the limits of decency and trust, it lets its students use the facilities of the college, which are better suited and which the students would rather use in the first place...
...back to the stage and a job with a repertory company. After another interlude at teaching (during which he managed to save ?10), Fry got a job as secretary to a popular songwriter, and wrote some songs himself which, however, failed to become popular. After a turn as a cabaret entertainer, he moved into an abandoned country rectory, together with a writer friend, 100 books and a large barrel of beef, to write a verse play. They finished the barrel, but not the play...
Fading Possibility. So it went. The possibility of holding down next year's estimated $7 billion deficit to even that whopping figure faded further when the House Ways & Means Committee continued to slash excise taxes. Newest items marked for tax relief were telephone bills, Pullman-berth tickets and cabaret chits. Added to cuts made the week before, the new slashes would reduce the Treasury's intake by about $1 billion...