Word: caf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...north, Belgium had fallen. Red Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg, a recent visitor to Brussels, indignantly reported catching a man in a café in the act of ordering Coke for himself and his innocent child. In vain, Ehrenburg warned: "A person who starts drinking Coca-Cola soon finds himself turning to other sinister habits." Belgian bottling plants were hard put to keep up with demand...
...studio, in its ardor to be tried & true, has remade Coney Island, a 1943 Grable hit, in a Chicago setting and called it Wabash Avenue. It is still the story of two conniving, double-crossing gamblers (Victor Mature and Phil Harris) who wrangle over the ownership of gaslight-era cafés and the affections of Betty Grable. A different musical score mixes oldtime songs with new ones that are so reminiscent that it is hard to tell which is which. For that matter, the new picture is hardly distinguishable from the original and, on any account, hardly distinguished...
...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...