Word: cabareting
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...Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Triangle drama, recklessly adapted from Keith Winter's play, about a cabaret dancer (Joan Crawford) who marries an aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) and falls in love with his brother (Robert Young...
...West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed intent on marrying a pert number, Lydia Cecily Hill, an ex-cabaret performer who first caught His Highness' eye four years ago in London when she was legging in the Grosvenor House floor show...
...sahibs of the British colony in Singapore had thought it bad enough some years ago when the Sultan married (and subsequently divorced) a Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...
...Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts- theatre, cinema, radio-it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...
Black, barrelhouse cabaret singers were not long in converting Frankie's exploit into a torchy part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion...