Word: cabareting
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...whitewashed, thatch-roofed cabaret in St.-Maries-de-la-Mer, west of the French Riviera, the crowd sat in the smoky darkness one night last week as the guitarist strummed the gypsy rhythms that he had learned as a boy. The slight, intense performer did not like the feel of the crowd-"les marts," he contemptuously called them, "the dead ones." His playing was listless until midnight, when the dead ones left, and an enthusiastic group of flamenco appreciators-some gypsies among them-arrived from Aries. Then 29-year-old Ricard Baillardo (Manita de Plata, or Little Silver Hands...
...have gotten all we could possibly get from Joe Louis and still leave him with some hope that he can live," declared an Internal Revenue official last year. But last week the once peerless puncher, currently shuffling through a semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting...
Whatever the numerous reasons for the fall-off-world tensions, recession, eagerness to visit Asian or other off-beat tourist spots-the fact is that the once-favored European gathering places for Americans are getting fewer dollars. In Paris' Lido cabaret, which last year turned away people by the hundreds every night, any customer can get a table now. Luxury hotels such as the Ritz, George V, Crillon and Plaza Athenée have dropped 15% in American bookings, and some of the lesser hotels are off 50% to 60%. The big travel agencies, American Express and Cooks, report...
...Jules Feiffer, 32, who was once slyly described by Critic Kenneth Tynan as "the best writer now cartooning." Tynan obviously overlooked James Thurber, but Feiffer appears to have taken the hint. His first stage work, a revue called The Explainers, which is running at Chicago's new Playwrights cabaret theater, in some ways recalls Broadway's A Thurber Carnival, but it has a wry. gentle note all its own. It is also part of a growing Chicago school of humor (although Feiffer himself is a refugee from Greenwich Village). The focus of infection formerly was a group...
Although Segal's book itself may only be an excuse for his songs, it's a clever excuse indeed. Moreover, those songs need no excuse in the first place. Set to Joe Raposo's catchy tunes, they string out into a truly hilarious cabaret-revue...