Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lover of good music and a lover of fair play, I protest against the sneer at Irving Berlin in TIME of May 10, p. 18. I fail to see why the cafe in which the little boy earned his living should be dragged out again and again for the sole purpose of insulting one of our real musical geniuses...
...Little Irish Girl (Dolores Costello-Johnny Harron). This tale of the San Francisco underworld affords Dolores Costello the opportunity of playing the decoy for a grimy cafe of doubtful purpose. While she is concentrating on the business of luring in as many pocketsful of money as possible, there swims into her calculating ken the inevitable handsome youth - with whom she falls in love and to whose farm her comrades in crime depart in a body. Whereupon his grandmother proves that sharp wits are not all urban products. Miss Costello contributes another of her decorative and deft characterizations...
...burial merits no description. And the words?like the words of "All Alone", like the words of "Remember", like the words of all Mr. Berlin's songs except, possibly "I'm a K. P."?are exactly the words one would expect a waiter in Nigger Mike's Cafe to write, in a trickly moment, on a beer-stained menu, behind the nickelodeon...
Striding to a nearby cafe, Mr. Bergdoll ordered a bottle of wine for every policeman and court official at Mosbach. Amid cheers, he departed by motor for Ebersbach, his usual centre of activities...
...young girl when she took her first engagement in a dingy Barcelona fishermen's cafe. She wandered from village to village, city to city, picking up the melodies that are woven through Spanish life. Her King heard of her and commanded a performance. She became the cardinal vocal artist of her country...