Word: cabareting
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Last week, on orders from his superiors, Istanbul's police boss summoned the city's top comedians, songwriters, cabaret and theater owners into his office to lay down the law. Citing a police regulation forbidding public utterances "prejudicial to public morale and to the security and policy of the government," the director announced that any theater or nightclub that permits jokes about the high cost of Menderes would be closed for three months...
...geishas still keep up their traditional routine-the three daily sessions in the public baths, the facial massage with costly nightingale dung, the rubbing of the feet with pumice stone-their number is steadily dwindling. Promising nymphets now prefer to take on more explicit and less demanding jobs as cabaret girls; young men in search of kicks favor the nude shows that flourish all over town. To compete with the cabarets, the geishas have taken up such desperate sidelines as juggling and playing the xylophone-a far cry from the haughty geishas who were the quietly indispensable social companions...
Author Keyes could not. Fiction, as she suggests in her preface, must not be completely fictitious, and murders are "not rampant or even frequent" in Louisiana rice fields. So, instead, Author Keyes has made her tale turn on a murder in a rice bin. The victim is a fictional cabaret singer named Titine Dargereux ("very good to look at, and the closer she came, the more alluring"). Cajun Titine titillates Rice Prince Prosper Villac, who "had her to himself beside a bayou" in return for a pair of gold slippers. So when Titine is found suffocated in the Villac rice...
...successful that she has a contract with the Embers (through 1961) that brings her $2,000 a week and calls for two eight-week stints a year. This sort of payoff has drawn her to the attention of Internal Revenue men who argue that her gyrations constitute a cabaret act, that the club ought to pay the 20% entertainment tax rather than the 3% charged for purely instrumental gaiety. "If I had to stop groaning," Dorothy groans, "I'd be out of business." So a compromise was arranged. "I can still wriggle as long as I keep within...
...Brooklynite named Ben Maksik, and he built it from a hot dog stand. When he was cleaned out of the real-estate business by the Depression, Maksik borrowed $200, slapped together a wooden frankfurters-and-Coke stand, gradually expanded it into a nightclub by acquiring a jukebox, liquor and cabaret licenses and a dance floor. Two and a half years ago he borrowed $1,000,000, built his present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering. The 40-man kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates) in half...