Word: cabareting
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...revue. (And, just as likely, Vienna's conception of a Broadway one.) It lacks the pace of the U. S. product, and its sophistication does not consist of being hep to the quirks of café society. Instead it has, at its best, the gaiety of a Continental cabaret, and a sophistication based on real culture. When it is not at its best, its culture becomes a liability, its leisureliness a disaster...
...Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple of boogie-woogie has been a subterranean Leftist cabaret in Greenwich Village called Café Society. Its high priests: Negroes Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis...
Scenting news. Fleet Street has sent reporters to interview London harpies, some of whom seem to have been upset by the twittering from the shires. At the Cabaret Club, the London Daily Express found "a great big, graceful, healthy girl," Miss Eunice Allman, who explained that her work consists in "soothing bruised egos," begged, "If you're writing about us, don't make us out to be the scum of the earth. We're not so bad." In general the press survey went far toward confirming Sir John Anderson's evident feeling that there...
...cards to worry about, Bucharest's 900,000 sophisticated, easygoing, sensuous citizens are at last earning the title which the city long ago assumed but never quite deserved-"Paris of the East." The Nippon bar, hangout of lonely, pleasure-bent males, and the Colorado, more elegant and respectable cabaret, keep open nightly until 5:30 a.m. On the less naughty side of Bucharest serious politicians relax at famed Café Capsa. The big, swanky outdoor terrace of the Cercul Militar (Army Club), facing the Calea Victoriei, is filled nightly with resplendently uniformed officers and smartly turned-out women. Caviar...
...will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul's lissome wife Irene (Sigrid Gurie) to resume her career as a cabaret songster, both to plot Paul's release...