Word: caf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally supposed to be white slavery, opium and hatchet-work in Chinatown. San Francisco, bringing the earthquake up to date, makes it plain that its real cause lay in the fact that Clark Gable did not say his prayers at night. Gable is Blackie Norton, owner of a notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father Tim (Spencer Tracy) struggles to make a convert out of Blackie while Mr. Burley (Jack Holt) struggles to make an opera singer out of the chanteuse, so that she will be worthy of his manor on Nob Hill. The Burley...
...Hitler Communists and the professions. Many of these have joined the Storm Troops for protective coloration, shout "Heil Hitler!" with the rest. In the Nation, U. S. Leftist magazine, Louis Fischer reported the widespread opposition to Naziism he had found inside Germany. He retold a Berlin cafè story of an imaginary visit to a factory by General Hermann Wilhelm Göring who told the men they must speak openly...
After the ear episode, Gauguin thought it wise to leave his friend. He struggled on in Paris, making many friends, no money, began to talk wildly of escaping from civilization to the peace of the South Seas. The idea inflamed his café friends. Somebody pulled wires in the Ministry of Public Instruction and brought out a fine document authorizing Gauguin to make an artistic expedition to the Colony of Tahiti on behalf of the Republic of France-at no salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished...
...hulking figures, mostly nude and vaguely classical, painted in the earthy browns, yellows and reds of early Italian frescoes. Best of the lot was Mario Tozzi's solidly painted Farmer's Dream, a portrait of a plump, prosperous and sleepy-eyed husbandman, seated at a country café table by a jug of wine...
...came to him late in life. With a beard every bit as large and white as that of his friend Monet, and evening clothes of black velvet, he was idolized by young Bohemians of the 1890's, loved to preside at the Impressionists' monthly dinners in the café Riche. He died Nov. 13, 1903 of an abscessed prostate gland...