Word: cabareting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bromfield and Sidney Howard, both raucously advertised as Pulitzer Prizewinners, have produced a story which will make cinema seers feel content that winners of the Nobel and other awards have not so far been hired to compose operettas. It is about a flower girl who, masquerading as a notorious cabaret entertainer, wins the love of John Boles. The singer (Lilyan Tashman) has been exiled by the police from Budapest to the familiar Hungarian musical comedy steppes?a district of palaces, vineyards, and extemporary duets. Going as substitute, the flower girl is wooed by an important local grandee who judges...
After a seven-month separation while the Fox publicity department astutely built up popular demand for their reappearance together, Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are brought together again in this rewrite of a stagey, old-fashioned melodrama. He is a rich man's wastrel son. She is a cabaret entertainer who is about to make a man of him, when they are separated. When they meet again she has become a drug addict and he is in the act of trading his fraternity ring for a bottle of booze. In a whirl of misty sentiment they work out each...
...high Ford wage-scale has not attracted more than 2,000 where 5,000 are wanted. Riots and strikes have broken out; hospitals have been and are busy. A writer in India-Rubber Journal (London) last fortnight said liquor consumption on the plantation has increased 1,000%, a cabaret has opened adjacent to it. Rubbermen last week said the Ford plantation's closing down was only a matter of days...
...other reasons for Morocco being a good picture. Menjou has a comparatively unimportant role as a disappointed and aging hedonist, a role he has taken before in slightly different forms, but which he has never done better. Best shot: Marlene Dietrich playing to a hostile crowd in a Moroccan cabaret...
...Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed murals of toping fauns and bare-breasted ladies had been installed. Cabaret entertainment, dancing and games were provided without cover charge. Payment for refreshments were arranged, as in her "former place," by selling books of $1 tickets, one (or more) to be torn off by the waiter or bartender each time he serves a customer...