Word: cabareting
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...love story of a blonde flower-seller (Annabella) and a taxi-driver (Georges Rigaud). Across the street in the shadow of Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night the taxi-driver's wanton, black-haired ex-mistress (Pola Illery) moves in on him and he moves out. When the blonde finds the brunette's clothes in his room next morning, she breaks off with him. While...
...shots: The street crowd dancing in the drizzle under umbrellas; children running down the hill stairway to get a paper lantern; Raymond Cordy, his taxi bumped from behind, stopping, starting to argue before he gets his head out the window; drunken Paul Olivier terrifying the other patrons of a cabaret by fondling a revolver with a view to suicide, readily giving up to the headwaiter, then pulling a second from another pocket; The final shot from above the deserted street in which wait the abandoned cab and flower cart...
Hitherto it has been the habit of producers to lead female spies to their natural, and well-merited end. And this reviewer must confess an inability to discern any ameliorating quality in Miss Bennett's performance. As a Russian spy, she is transparent; as a cabaret performer she sings horridly and dances awkwardly: as a lover she is meticulously unlovely, and earnestly mechanical. In short Miss Bennett has added another dud to her amazing collection. She is ably abetted in this process by a mundane story, by a stolid cast, and by a director with more memory than imagination...
...punish such treachery to Nazi "pure race" ideals, they cut off her blonde plaits, shaved her head, tied a placard around her neck reading "I have offered myself to a Jew" and pinned the plaits to the placard. Until after midnight the girl was dragged from cabaret to cabaret, forced to stand on the stage of each while she was made the butt of vile abuse. No Briton in any of the cabarets was so foolish as to challenge the Storm Troopers at the time but scores of Britons wrote scorching eye-witness letters next day, thoroughly scared the Municipality...
...Devil's in Love is a typical Foreign Legion picture, about a medical officer (Victor Jory) who, unjustly convicted of poisoning his major, escapes to a seaside town. After having a liaison with a handsome cabaret hostess (Vivienne Osborne), he meets and falls in love with the fiancee (Loretta Young) of his friend Captain Jean Fabien (David Manners). Bullets and fever, as is usually the case in French North Africa, presently improve the situation. A sick orderly confesses to killing the major, whom no one liked anyway. Fabien gets a bullet and a splendid funeral, at which his fiancee...