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Sherman Billingsley, suave, sleepy-eyed host of Manhattan's Stork Club, accepted congratulations from cafe society as the author of a 6,000-word history of nightclubs, to be printed in the next edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica-which is noticing nightclubs for the first time in 177 years of publication. Pocketing his $120 (the scholar's rate of 2? a word) Author Billingsley lost no time about getting in a professional plug: "Nightclubs are here to stay. Curfews and taxes can't kill them . . . even the Britannica has come to realize...
Midnight Drums. In Pendleton, Ore., Chief Jim Kanine of the Umatilla, Cayuse and Wallawalla tribes, ordered that during the cafe curfew tom-toms at tribal dances must be silenced at midnight...
Died. Julius Keller, 81, New York restaurateur (Maxim's) famed as "the father of cafe society," credited with introducing the gigolo into U.S. night life (an early employe: Rudolph Valentino); in Southampton, L.I. He once recalled firing Singer Rosa Ponselle from Maxim's, later meeting her when she was a Metropolitan prima donna and asking innocently : "Where are you working now, Rosa...
...milestone in jazz history may well occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town...
...year-old girl, who got A and B grades in school, earned $12 for a 53½-hr. week as a fry cook in a small cafe...