Word: cabareting
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...Harold (Hal) Mills, born in New Orleans, publisher of the Chinese daily Hwai Mei Chen Pao. Publisher Mills's plant was bombed three times in February 1938, wounding nine Chinese (including a detective, who shot down one of the terrorists) and a foreign cabaret proprietor...
Consensus of the opinions of these Louis intimates: "Joe is a big, likable kid, but not too bright," spendthrift, sleepy, easygoing as an Alabama field hand. Marva Louis told how nonsmoking, nondrinking Joe frittered away fabulous sums of money on cab fares and cabaret checks for his friends. Trainer Jack Blackburn admitted that Joe didn't care much, one way or the other, about fighting. From newspapers and court files Earl Brown traced Manager Roxborough's connections with the numbers racket, Manager Julian Black's impressive police record. Some of the more lurid facts about the Louis...
...Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house near Covent Garden...
Suddenly last week came a violent official reaction. The Rev. James Little, M. P., called Parliament's attention to the alarming state of affairs. Inspectors of the London County Council began visiting cabaret bottle parties ("clubs" at which customers may obtain liquor after legal drinking hours from wholesalers with whom they are registered), on the lookout for "abominable scenes." Two hundred M. P.s signed a motion in the House of Commons "deploring bottle parties." Britain's official moral police chief, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain, convoked a conference to discuss nudity...
...spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander once clapped in the Tower of London for betraying military secrets (and now thought to be Scotty, propagandist and master of ceremonies on the twice-weekly Cabaret in English on the Nazi radio); 3) Henry William Wicks, onetime London insurance man now living in Germany with his Nazi-minded wife. Listeners got into learned dispute over his accent. It was aristocratic, public-school, phony. Novelist Rose Macaulay pronounced it "a slight provincial accent (Manchester...