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Bolero (Paramount). Set in the 1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity...
Blackbirds (by Nat N. Dorfman, Mann Holiner and Lew Leslie; songs by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols. Ned Washington, Joseph and Victor Young; produced by Sepia Guild Players Inc.) is the third of Lew Leslie's anthologies of the cabaret talent in Manhattan's Negro Harlem...
...daughter had been shocked, Actor Tracy was rearrested, was again released. While authorities were investigating, he secretly climbed into an airplane, fled to El Paso. When he arrived he told what he remembered about the incident: "I was just helping them celebrate. I'd been on a cabaret party and had some drinks and, like any drunk, began yelling. Someone yelled back and I shouted 'Why don't you go to Hell...
Adams House will become temporarily a cabaret on the night of Friday, December fifteenth, for the Adams House Christmas Dinner-Dance. Jacques Mar-Iowa and his Newport Casino Orchestra will provide the music for the dance and will also play during the dinner when they will wander in small groups among the tables. Both the orchestra and the attendants will be dressed to costumes for the gala occasion. Dancing will be from 8.30 to 2 o'clock...
...ordinary residents of Harlem reached by door to door canvass. In appearance, the tabloid Citizen looks like a compromise between the dignified Evening Post and the blatant Daily Mirror. Last week's front pages contained, not pictures, but stories of a specially lively shooting in a Harlem cabaret, a Brooklyn fire in which eight Negroes perished. First issues of the Daily Citizen had a circulation of around 7.500. Principal difficulty of starting a Negro daily in Harlem has always been the popularity of Manhattan's two morning tabloids, News and Mirror. Both papers used to print, inconspicuously inked...