Word: cabareting
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...past five years 2,000,000 people have been lured to smart little Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe cabaret by its nostalgic floor shows about the Gay Nineties and the Naughty Naughts. Last week Rose said good-by to all that, leaped into the future. "Come to New York," large ads advised Washington's brain-trusters, "and see our Post-War Preview, which concerns itself not with the fuss, but with the fun of the future. We have some important figures to submit. We'd like to show you a world with not too much milk, perhaps...
There is much fine Technicolor and court pouf-pouf. But pretty Lucille Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian Zero Mostel in his screen debut seems to need an intimate audience; Tommy Dorsey's band needs fewer powdered wigs and more good tunes to play. A characteristic flight of wit is a non-Porter song which runs: "No matter how you slice it, it's still Salome...
...Gaullist movement has found its loveliest voice. She sang last week at a new Manhattan cabaret, the Blue Angel, opened by balding, long-nosed, toothy Herbert Jacoby, ex-secretary to France's imprisoned ex-Premier Leon Blum. Chic as a Paris bandbox, its jet-black walls garnished with white lilies and orchids, the Blue Angel gave off more than a suggestion of the smarter mortuaries. But it ceased to be funereal when a swarm of De Gaullist refugees and friends produced an opening-night crush of such confusion that New York Daily News Columnist Danton Walker...
...Lautrec's biographer Gerstle Mack described her differently: "She never allowed herself to lapse into vulgarity. ... Her friends were generally writers or artists, cultivated men in whose company she felt at ease." Lautrec immortalized Avril in numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with her flaming red hair under a large black bonnet, listening with a toppered escort to a song by the disease, Yvette Guilbert...
...night in 1938 Tunesmiths Raye and De Paul spent an evening at Manhattan's Famous Door cabaret listening to Count Basie's band. "Jeez!" remarked Tunesmith Raye as Jimmy Rushing trucked onto the stage for his number, "that guy's just about five by five." "That," said Tunesmith De Paul, "is an idea for a song." By the time the evening was over, Raye and De Paul had written the song out complete-on a paper napkin. Four years later Mister Five By Five, plugged to popularity by Bandleader Freddie Slack...