Word: cabareting
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...Garden of Eden. Toni Le Brun was fired from a smoke-blue Paris cabaret because she was naïvely virtuous. The wardrobe mistress (Louise Dresser), one of those quaint impoverished baronesses, adopted her, took her to Monte Carlo where the pair lived for a month on the savings of a year. In the garden of the Hotel Eden a rich young man (Charles Ray) makes love to Toni (Corinne Griffith). A marriage is arranged. Enraged by last-minute accusations of gold-digging, Toni tears off her wedding gown, runs through corridors in less & less until finally she encounters the Prime...
HOME TO HARLEM-Claude McKay-Harpers ($2.50). Jake, a Negro, home from the World War, picks up a warm brown girl in a Harlem cabaret, gives her his last $50, spends the night with her. Next morning, after leaving her, he discovers in his pocket the $50 with a scrawl attached: "Just a little gift from a baby girl to a honey boy." But Jake had lost her address. So he finds new women, old drinks; becomes a longshoreman, a third cook on a Pullman, a quiet enjoyer of metropolitan fleshpots. In the end-Negroes, too, like it happy-Jake...
...RACKET-Gunmen, cops, reporters, a cabaret girl, kick and scream as Chicago shoots to kill (TIME...
...plot is simple. Louise, the daughter of honest and conservative working people, herself employed in a dress-maker's-shop, has fallen in love with Julien a poet and "pillar of a cabaret" as Louise's mother succintly describes him. Julien has written frankly to the parents to ask for Louise's hand in marriage. The poet's careless life and invisible income do not prepossess the somewhat strait-laced parents in his favor, and they refuse his offer. Louise promises to clope with her lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which...
White Lights is the sixth? of plays to be produced this season dealing with life behind the scenes of show business. It is a musical comedy with a cabaret singer heroine "who comes from a good family and doesn't belong in this sort of work." There is a pretty boy for her to fall in love with and a villain to be firmly foiled...