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Word: cabareting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scenting news. Fleet Street has sent reporters to interview London harpies, some of whom seem to have been upset by the twittering from the shires. At the Cabaret Club, the London Daily Express found "a great big, graceful, healthy girl," Miss Eunice Allman, who explained that her work consists in "soothing bruised egos," begged, "If you're writing about us, don't make us out to be the scum of the earth. We're not so bad." In general the press survey went far toward confirming Sir John Anderson's evident feeling that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Harpies and Hussies | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...cards to worry about, Bucharest's 900,000 sophisticated, easygoing, sensuous citizens are at last earning the title which the city long ago assumed but never quite deserved-"Paris of the East." The Nippon bar, hangout of lonely, pleasure-bent males, and the Colorado, more elegant and respectable cabaret, keep open nightly until 5:30 a.m. On the less naughty side of Bucharest serious politicians relax at famed Café Capsa. The big, swanky outdoor terrace of the Cercul Militar (Army Club), facing the Calea Victoriei, is filled nightly with resplendently uniformed officers and smartly turned-out women. Caviar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul's lissome wife Irene (Sigrid Gurie) to resume her career as a cabaret songster, both to plot Paul's release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Nineties song-&-dance man who wrote I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and 500 other whilom favorites, is 72. His shuffle-off-to-Buff alo is not what it used to be, but he can still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Tintype | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Lincoln and Joe Hill (Michael Loring, Cabaret TAC and singers from the Earl Robinson Chorus; Modern Records**) Two crusty proletarian items by Songwriters Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: March Records | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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