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...nights, under mammoth silver palm trees rising toward a starry blue-silk sky, a changing trio of bands will blare out over a vast dance floor holding 5,000, spectators' stands seating 4,000, cafe sections seating 1,500. Admission is 66? on weekdays, 88? on weekends and holidays, with the partners of Service men admitted free...
...doubt if they can stand empty bellies." Foodleggers. One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer. Like gangsters who terrorized the U.S. under Prohibition, foodleggers have highjacked trucks, altered labels, threatened shopkeepers and cafe proprietors. In spite of 5,077 convictions in the first three months of 1941, fines ranging from $8 to $8,000 and a number of imprisonments, illegal traffic in food goes on. Chief difference between British and U.S. mobsters: in Britain so far there have been no gang killings...
...vastly disproportionate amount of America's playwriting energy is expended upon the satirical or farcical comedy dealing with the vicissitudes of cafe or literary society life. A good deal of it is sheer waste, and its authors would do better shoveling coal. Kaufman and Hard are among the few who can make good theatre out of nothing more than witty lines and superficial characterizations and plots. The second act of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" shows both the art and the artists at their best; they play may easily be the masters' masterpiece. It's an unbeatble laxative...
Elizabeth O'Connor, Ann Magnotto, and Billie Young, cafe waitresses, went wading in Washington's Rock Creek Park. They spied Lord Halifax strolling by with a friend, hopped out of the water, raced barefoot up to the British Ambassador and got his autograph on a popcorn box. "You've heard of Ramsay MacDonald," smiled Lord Halifax. "Well, this is his son Malcolm." He indicated the youthful British High Commissioner to Canada, in Washington for a short visit. "Hi, Male," said Elizabeth...
Nightclubs do not usually hire other people's halls to give public concerts, but last week one of them-Manhattan's "Cafe Society"-did exactly that. It hired Carnegie Hall. And it was the first time that nightclub entertainers had tried their hands so publicly on Bach, Beethoven, Schubert. The concert's label, "From Bach to Boogie-Woogie," accurately covered the efforts of the Negro Societarians...