Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noel Coward* sat in the front row. The Oliviers were there. So were banks of diplomats, café socialites and other famous faces. By the time the curtain went up on the first British showing of South Pacific, more than 2,300 had crowded into London's Drury Lane Theater...
...marimba in bands ranging from 20-piece earsplitters down to sextets. Trio work is something fairly new, and Red finds it "all headwork-the bass has to cover for a drummer, the guitar for clarinet or trumpet, the vibes for piano." Headwork or handwork, old Red was the uptown caf...
...Roger's old boss had thundered tellingly to the captain of gendarmes. "He can no longer be considered to be in that coffin of yours." The captain agreed, but it was much too late to call off the funeral. In honor of the great day, one of the cafés gave Roger a free breakfast. Roger set off for the cemetery. As one old friend after another recognized him, there were many touching embraces at the graveside. When Roger himself learned that many of them had chipped in to buy him a handsome gravestone, he was deeply moved...
...eyes twinkling brightly, the returned vacationist strode happily into his favorite café, expecting a joyful greeting. The first man to see him shuddered, sputtered and sagged into a chair. An old friend at the other side of the barroom hastily stamped out a cigarette and reverently removed his hat. Madame Labbaye, the patronne, peered from behind a potted palm. "What is wrong?" cried Roger. "Have I lost a child?" Roger couldn't make out the woman's excited answer...
Confused and distressed, Roger raced from the café into another, where he always ate breakfast. A pretty barmaid took one look and shrieked: "My God, it's Roger! But you are dead. They pulled your body from the river and we are all going to your funeral tomorrow...