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...over a fence. With his attractive Brazilian wife and two sons, Artist Segall lives in big, bustling Sao Paulo. But he often goes back country to paint. Most appealing canvas in the show came from one such trip: Negro Mother, an almond-eyed, woolly-haired girl holding up her café-au-lait infant...
...moment of the evening was when Debutante Mary Churchill, a glamor girl in anybody's country, espied her famed father, the First Sea Lord, trying to sneak in like a tired bulldog to an inconspicuous table. She promptly dragged him out to sit with her own café society group, including the orchidaceous Marquesa de Casa Maury and brilliant carrot-haired Editor Brendan Bracken of The Banker. Spotting "Winston," the whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever...
...York is more or less Broadway's conception of a Viennese revue. (And, just as likely, Vienna's conception of a Broadway one.) It lacks the pace of the U. S. product, and its sophistication does not consist of being hep to the quirks of café society. Instead it has, at its best, the gaiety of a Continental cabaret, and a sophistication based on real culture. When it is not at its best, its culture becomes a liability, its leisureliness a disaster...
...Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple of boogie-woogie has been a subterranean Leftist cabaret in Greenwich Village called Café Society. Its high priests: Negroes Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis...
Last week a fourth stocky figure joined Café Society's three boogie-woogie graces. Though similarly barrel-shaped, the new comer was white and wore a beard. He was Proseur Elliot Paul, longtime Paris expatriate, onetime editor of the word-shattering magazine Transition, author of one good book, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town (TIME, June 28, 1937). A humdinger on the piano-accordion, Novelist Paul last winter got so interested in boogie-woogie that he took time off from writing detective stories to study boogie-woogie piano, under High-Priest Ammons. Last week he showed...