Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audiences in eight cities last week got their first chance to compare British television with the domestic product. What they saw was a filmed version of Café Continental, an hour-long BBC music-hall revue boiled down to 15 minutes and burdened with the addition of four long-winded commercials for Conmar Zippers...
...standards, Café was well above average, a briskly paced, lighthearted series of variety acts with a minimum of Berlesque mugging. The Continental flavor was supplied by Swiss yodeling, Gypsy music and French acrobatics. But top honors went to shapely Singer Isabel Bigley, a New Yorker who went to London in 1947 as the lead in Oklahoma! and hopes that another year abroad will give her enough experience for a successful assault on Broadway. "But if M-G-M would like to twist my arm," she says, "I'd be happy to go into pictures...
Some Britons, who have often taken a rather lofty tone toward the shortcomings of TV shows in the U.S., were worried that Americans might think the lowbudget, unassuming Café Continental was the best they could do. Said a BBC official: "Had it been television drama we were exporting, we could really have shown the U.S. something...
...night about a year ago, during an intellectual gabfest in Madrid's Café Gijon, two young authors, José Maria Da Quinto and José Gordon, thought up a way to skirt the government censorship of the stage. Why not form a private club to put on shows for members only? Franco's rules did not forbid it. So the club La Carátula (The Mask) was born...
...Belgrade café last week, Milica sneezed, and then smiled happily. A dark, sturdy girl, she had been discussing the police in Communist Yugoslavia. She explained her smile...