Word: cafee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week a favorite entertainer of Berlin's cafe society was twinkly-eyed Werner Finck, one of the daring, politically sophisticated German comedians who get their laughs at the expense of the Nazis...
...writer in his spare time (From Nudity to Raiment), Hiler was also a great cafe sitter with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. He knew the Left Bank like the bottom of his glass. In 1934, when the dollar fell so low that a whiskey neat cost 72? in Paris, Hiler announced, "The position is untenable," and started home...
...audiences, an important first night is a combination of theatrical gamble and social sure thing. Cafe Society, theatre people, Bohemians, middle-class Johnny-on-the-spots-the toughest theatre crowd in the world to please-are the backbone of every Broadway first-night audience. An hour before curtain time, a mob of babbling celebrity-chasers and autograph hounds, aged ten to 70, starts lining up outside the theatre entrance. As. taxis and limousines roll up, the audience's audience gurgles and gasps ("It's Elsa Maxwell!", "It's Freddie March!", "There's Dorothy Parker!"), then surges...
Last week the season reached its limou-zenith: Cafe Society's favorite performer, Beatrice Lillie, headlined a revue, Set to Music, by Cafe Society's pet playwright, Noel Coward. Autograph fiends were in Heaven, pressed together as close as the cards in a sealed deck. A battery of photographers flashed their bulbs as into the Music Box streamed the John Barrymores, Prince Serge Obolensky, Margo, Tallulah Bankhead, Major Bowes, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hope Hampton, Lady Castlerosse, Lucius Beebe, many another...
Labor trouble at the popular rendezvous of local cafe society came to a head six weeks ago when employees struck for a 25 percent wage increase, a 48 hour week, and a vacation with pay. They went back to work two days later when representatives of employers and employees signed an agreement agreeing to submit the dispute to the State Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on both parties...