Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some radio listeners last week tried to puzzle their way through Café Istanbul's chaotic plot. But others were content just to listen to the clinging, faintly accented voice of Marlene Dietrich, who opened her new radio series as the Café's owner. As she has countless times since the classic Blue Angel, Marlene played the same romantic, Weltschmerz role and whispered snatches of French and German songs. Some listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German...
...other thing" gets a thorough workout in Café Istanbul, as it has in most of her movies. Broadway may get its first chance to see it this fall, if Marlene decides to do Jacques Deval's new play, Samarkand. As for television: "I don't want to get into it yet. I'm waiting for it to get better. After all, I'll have to defend my title...
...drew near, everyone got the jitters. The burgomaster, feeling his responsibilities, grew nervous and asked for police reserves; he was promised 30 men for Sunday morning. The action committee countered by shifting H-hour to 1 a.m. But on Saturday afternoon, three young men of Huissen met in a café, decided that the police might easily forestall everything by arriving even earlier. Over two sherries and a beer, they agreed on a plan of their...
...easy for the police to close it again. They heaved at one of the double doors with a crowbar. Finally it came loose with a loud tearing and cracking, and they lugged it away to a nearby garden and dumped it among the cabbages. Then they went to a café and celebrated over coffee and Dutch...
Anger in the Pantry. In Pinckneyville, 111., after finding only 30? in a café's cash register, a burglar 1) smashed ten dozen eggs, 2) poured vanilla extract in the chile, 3) plastered hamburger against the windows, 4) dumped a sack of sugar into the silverware...