Word: cabareting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vieux carré, Lillian McDowell, whose profession was listed as "cabaret hostess," teetered out of a saloon with a man she had picked up. Soon she staggered back inside clutching her stomach and moaning: "Slim cut me." Hostess McDowell died. Police began looking for "Slim...
...this time Chaplin has made the acquaintance of a Gamin (Paulette Goddard). She has patched up a shack where both can live in airy disdain of the Hays organization. When Chaplin gets out of jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have...
...elaborate production numbers, in which the Goldwyn Girls function as decoratively as usual, but the activities of an animated young woman named Ethel Merman. Long familiar to Manhattan stage audiences, Ethel Merman's previous cinema appearances have been trifling and unimpressive. In Strike Me Pink, cast as a cabaret entertainer who nearly demolishes Eddie Pink's romance with a wholesome blonde (Sally Eilers), she comes into her own, sings all three of the show's best songs: First You Have Me High, Then You Have Me Low!, Shake It Off With Rhythm, Calabash Pipe...
...wedding gown, never been worn." More amusing was the scene wherein a chorus director was driven to distraction by a particularly inept performer who subsequently advertised herself as a "well trained, highly musical danseuse, accidentally still disengaged." Trudi Schoop appeared first as a blowzy-looking singer in a tawdry cabaret. She gesticulated and grimaced wildly until finally she was shot. The advertisement: "Wanted immediately: leading chanteuse for first-class establishment...
Congress (51st and Broadway). A cabaret with a gigantic dance floor and show. There are clever dance arrangements complete with harp by the orchestra of Bob Sylvester, who formerly arranged for Hal Kemp...