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Ethel Waters was drawing record crowds last week to the same nightspot in which she first sang on Broadway 20 years ago (Cafe Zanzibar-then the Plantation Club). On her dressing table the husky, dusky chanteuse propped a framed poem...
...population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms are tapped on cafe tables. But he has been inventing carnival songs ever since he came to Rio from the farm ten years...
Head in hands, sportswriter Tod Schoonover stared at the telephone, suddenly grabbed it. Sacramento's Chamber of Commerce had tried to outbid Tacoma, raised a scrawny $8,000 and quit. He would make one last effort. Frenetically Schoonover phoned sporting friends-bowling alley operators, golfers, promoters, cafe owners. Ninety minutes later he had promises of $22,000. Yubi Separovich added $2,000. He and Edmonds then started after every solvent fan in town. In 48 hours they had $53,000, barely caught the night train to Los Angeles for the P.C.L. meeting...
...beginning a week from Friday night. Of course you can never tell who might sit in. An intriguing possibility presents itself when Louis Armstrong comes to Boston. Since the hand plays a good many of Louis' old tunes, such as "Muskrat Ramble," "Dippermouth Blues,' "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," "Sunset Cafe Stomp," "Big Butter and Egg Man," "Come Back Sweet Papa," and "Squeeze Me," you might stumble into the master himself dipping back into his very colorful past to play again the tunes he likes best but has given up because he now leads a commercial dance band...
What Is an Optimist, Pop? In Pasa dena, someone robbed a cafe of 150 steak and butter knives...