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Windhoek. "The name of the street was Göring-strasse. Through Bismarck-strasse and Moltke-strasse, past red-roofed houses set among purple bougainvillaea, it brought me to Kaiser-strasse, a broad highway of shops and caf...
...walked into the Café Vaterland. Its menu was as ample and German as the Fräulein who handled it. I ordered, in English, beer and Apfelstrudel, and asked for the local daily newspaper. I got the Deutscher Beobachter, with a curt 'Bitte.' Near by, three American karakul-pelt buyers were deep in wartime prices. They spoke English. Everyone else in the room spoke German. On the wall a German poster announced a UFA film, Wenn der Hahn kräht. All around were pictures of Germany...
Moanin' Low (Lena Home; Victor; 8 sides). Old favorites, such as Stormy Weather, The Man I Love, sung sensationally by the soulful Negro torchsinger, lately of Manhattan's Café Society, now in Hollywood...
Died. Jacques Bustanoby, 62, famed pre-World War I restaurateur (Café de la Paix); in Manhattan. He and brothers Pierre, André and Louis rode the crest of extravagant wining and dining in Manhattan before Prohibition, introduced dinner dances, the first women's bar in the city, lured Vernon and Irene Castle as entertainers. Rudolph Valentino as a $10-a-week gigolo...
...columnist's finger was a mess. But she had the last word. She re-entered the Café Royal, her finger dripping. "Is there a doctor in the house?" she inquired. "I think I have hydrophobia...