Word: cabareting
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...outline of the story is garish. It begins when a glum socialite (Clive Brook), consoling himself with liquor for his wife's infidelities, conceives an alliance with a cabaret singer (Miriam Hopkins). The cabaret singer has bad associations. When she sings the blues, she means them. Her husband is a thief. One night the socialite goes home to her apartment. While he is resting in a stupor on her couch her husband creeps into the other room of the apartment and kills her. The socialite is temporarily held for the murder. A fingerprint on a whiskey bottle exonerates...
Neumann's hero is a political assassin. Hoff, former German officer, since the Revolution a professional dancer in a Berlin cabaret, is leader of an extreme group in an anti-Government party. This group decides to precipitate a counterrevolution by killing the Prime Minister; as leader. Hoff assumes sole responsibility for the job. He has everything figured out; all preparations made. Evening before the attempt, between dances at the cabaret. Hoff has a conversation with a man who looks so much like Hoff he might be his brother. They go home, spend the evening together. The man turns...
...actress named Duchene, because she once patted his head when he was in a hospital. When Duchene visits the U. S., he goes to see her act and to give her a bunch of camelias. In the middle of her play he goes blind. Practical jokesters later persuade a cabaret girl who is good at imitations to impersonate Duchene. When she does so, she falls in love with the soldier, as the audience has foreseen. He is wildly agitated when he discovers her duplicity. But, also as the audience has foreseen, he finally comes to appreciate her sterling qualities. Then...
...customary, hailed her efforts loudly, her defi ciencies were made more than usually apparent by juxtaposition with the work of smooth, skilful Leslie Howard. The 5? & 10? store tycoon, chief character in the book but not the cinema, is able Richard Bennett, father of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance and Cabaret Dancer Barbara Bennett...
...five other prescribed gangsters against whom the Government will concentrate in New York are: Irving Wexler ("Waxey Gordon"), East Side whiskey peddler; Owen "Owney" Madden, extortionist, laundry racketeer; Larry Fay, shady proprietor of night clubs, taxicabs, milk associations; Bill Duffy, cabaret owner and prize fight manager; Giro Terranova, "The Artichoke King," who collects his levy from markets...