Word: cabareting
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After Office Hours includes, in addition to the sinister cottage, handsome Cedric Gibbons interiors of a Park Avenue apartment, a publisher's office and a waterfront cabaret. It gives Constance Bennett a chance to pose in four different evening gowns and to prove, superfluously, that she is still the most affected young woman on the U. S. screen. Likely to be popular, because of its stars and a rapid-fire style in which Director Robert Leonard shows the influence of Frank Capra, After Office Hours contains one genuinely comic sequence: a lunchroom proprietor (Henry Armetta) working himself into...
Following three performances in the Clubhouse, the show will be performed Saturday evening, March 30, at the Repertory Theater in Boston. As usual, there will be a cabaret afterwards. The next week, the Easter vacations, will see the production in cities up and down the coast. Last year "Hades! The Ladies!" was performed in Washington and the cast was entertained at the White House
...there cannot be many who would be able to stand "365 Nights in Hollywood." The songs are none too catchy, the story is unbelievably atrocious and Alice Faye who seems to be the raison d'etre of the opus would do much better in a cabaret where she would not be forced to dim her physical charms by unsuccessful attempts at acting. Despite these failings the picture will please if you are not in too cerebral a mood...
...danced the leading roles. For Hear Ye! Hear Ye!, a courtroom parody, she wrote her own scenario, had it approved by her lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes...
...with a loud-mouthed Jew named Harry Bexler. Her real adventures began when a German agent broke into their bedroom, shot Harry because he knew too much about his boss's secret business. Suzy left England in a hurry, took refuge in Paris. There she sang in a cabaret, shared a room with a fanatic Socialist, picked up geography, table manners and general intelligence from the quickening Parisian atmosphere. Her affair with a handsome French nobleman was purely platonic until he went to the front; then she discovered she was no platonist. She flew to his side...