Word: cabareting
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...Goldwyn to make his cinema comedies resemble in opulence the musical shows of the late Florenz Ziegfeld. This picture cost about $1,400,000. A chorus which is probably the handsomest ever assembled for the cinema appears twice: in the dormitory of a girls' school, then in a Mexican cabaret where Cantor hides under a table and puts on black face with the cork from a champagne bottle...
...staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this may be explained by the fact that it was after one o'clock when he arrived, and that the music at Chez Vous was fairly continuous so that, stopping king before...
...miles from Berlin) where U. S. hikers surprise Berlin actresses off for the afternoon. One hiker (Herbert Marshall) marries Marlene Dietrich, takes her to the U. S. They have a child. Marshall contracts radium poisoning in his scientific research. To send him to a Dresden doctor, Marlene returns to cabaret work, lets a lisping politician (Gary Grant) keep her. The husband, cured and returned, threatens to take Marlene's child away. She is hounded down the scale until she gives up the child, flops in & out of a 15¢ flophouse, suddenly reappears as a toasted but disillusioned Paris diseuse...
...suburban racketeer it places him in the embarrassing position of "knowing too much." More true to genre than Colyumist Robert's embroilment with the 'racketeer, his devotion to his aged mother, or his engagement to a female critic (Mary Brian), is his altercation with a cabaret crooner (Dick Powell). While forcing his way into the lavish opening night of the crooner's cabaret, Colyumist Roberts gives the racketeer a chance to shoot at him, gives himself a chance to atone to the singer...
...pursued a lengthy, sometimes tedious course, took its Boy, Girl and Voodoo Man into a plantation scene, where a treadmill and enormous water wheel figured in the setting; then into Harlem for a lively cabaret scene. From the jungle opening, where only percussion instruments accompanied the unisonal chants, to the end, where spirituals and jazz were mingled, the tom-tom beat its insistent note. Spirited and rhythmic was the performance of the 500 Negro choristers and Negro moppets. High spots: the end of the plantation scene, with massed slaves singing the chant of their new freedom while a band plays...