Word: cabareting
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Below her high-piled, Gibson-girl hairdo, her smile was beatific as the flashbulbs flared like the big guns off Iwo on D-plus-one. For the moment, only the desperate waitresses in the main cabaret of Las Vegas' Tropicana Hotel seemed to realize that visiting Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor was not the star of the show. "What can I serve you in the way of triples?" they asked, as they tried to turn the customers' minds back to the main business of the house. "You'll need three drinks to use up your minimum...
...present day because of the cleavage betwen 'popular' and 'serious' music, a cleavage unknown in earlier times." But the editor's revulsion could not be long held in check: "A certain kind of popular music is nowadays inevitably associated with the fetid atmosphere of a nightclub, dance hall or cabaret and its emphasis on cheap, moronic sexual allurement. But the service of the Holy Communion is, surely, something far removed from the idea of 'revelry by night...
...Cabaret humor is apt to be as brittle as a glass swizzle stick. Moved to the big, turbulent Broadway stage, it usually breaks. But two expert swizzlers have managed the transfer: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. They started in the '30s, in Manhattan's satirical cellar nightclubs, but eventually the two brightest kids underground emerged above ground as two of the sharpest adults writing musicomedy (book and lyrics for Two on the Aisle, On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). This season Comden and Green are more visible than ever, with two flourishing Broadway shows-Say, Darling, Bells...
Married. Donald Campbell, 37, aqua-motive speedster who-in his buglike jet hydroplane Bluebird-has established himself as the fastest man afloat (248.62 m.p.h.), son of the late land-sea Speed Merchant Sir Malcolm Campbell; and Tonia Bern, 28, TV and cabaret entertainer; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. Would Campbell stop risking his life in pursuit of more speed records? Said he: "Don't be daft...
Gunn (Craig Stevens) has all the normal qualifications: 1) a bachelor apartment that would do for "Baby" Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well...