Word: cabarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady of the Pavements (United Artists). D. W. Griffith's feeling for costume gives a certain conviction to the romantic story of a French count who finds his future wife, a countess, in the arms of another. He then falls in love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when...
Died. Howard W. Nesbit, 41, Bronx salesman, brother of famed Evelyn Nesbit, Harlem cabaret hostess, onetime wife of Harry K. Thaw; from suicide by hanging; in The Bronx...
Cincinnati was reached in time for a buffet dinner at the Queen City Club given by the Harvard Club. The concert was given on the Hotel Gibson Roof Garden with cabaret and night club effects, the spectators sitting at tables. After the concert the Gold Coast Orchestra played for dancing, but most of the members adjourned to the large debutante ball at the Hotel Sinton which lasted until 6 o'clock. The only incident of anyone almost getting left occurred here when the Indianapolis-bound train was stopped as it was leaving the station to take on several late arrivals...
...conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl (Olive Borden). What she tells one of the reporters, constitutes the plot of a well-acted, fairly exciting picture proving principally that Olive Borden is a better actress than most people have believed. Best shot: New Year's day in San Francisco's Chinatown...
...Racket. Thomas Meighan is the police captain. Louis Wolheim, of What Price Glory, is the bootlegging gang leader. Marie Prevost is the cabaret girl. "Skeets" Gallagher is a reporter. The result is the fastest moving, most convincing of the recent parade of rum-revolver-racket films...