Word: cabareting
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...down the square. Bustles & Bowes has draught beer and sawdusty floors; the Roaring Twenties is an unabashed speakeasy with a high-stepping stage show, mock raids and gangland fights; the Natchez Queen is done up like a Mississippi riverboat and purveys ragtime music. The Crystal Palace, a cabaret theater, presents big-name entertainment and imported repertory players in nightly revues. Last year it grossed nearly...
From the first, Gaslight Square attracted a fair share of mink coats along with turtleneck sweaters and black stockings. Then the latter took on a different look as proprietors required customers to wear coats and ties. Says one cabaret owner: "We give a buck's worth of booze for a buck. And no strolling, lonely chicks. Once you start letting that happen, you are in for trouble." Today, the Square has no strippers, no gyp joints, lots of good clean gaslit...
Floating among West Coast cabaret tables is a new line about a fellow who is writing a play. The scene is the United Nations and the title is U Thant, Take It With...
After Salvatore's release, the action shifts to the cabaret where he sings his climactic aria (Vivat Formica] before the ant dies beneath the proprietor's heel...
...time he discovered that people would pay to hear him play. But money means little to him: "When I am playing well, nothing else counts. I am playing for myself." He has never signed a recording contract, although a recording of his cabaret performances was illegally released in France, and Decca is attempting to release another De Plata disk over his lawyer's protests. Like many of his fellow guitarists, he has a scorn for non-gypsy audiences, often deliberately insults them in his improvised lyrics. He has turned down an offer from a New York nightclub because...