Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mediocrity is the order of the evening at the Majestic Theatre, for the present at least. "Cafe de Danse" is mildly amusing in spots, but in its present form presents no startling features...
...name suggests the show is supposed to represent, though not too seriously, cafe life. This time it's in Spain and no worse on that account than if it were in Paris. Frequent references to "climbing the stairs to the little room above" keep the moral tone sufficiently low to satisfy those who wouldn't be otherwise satisfied...
...sunny spring morning, starts gaily down the Champs Elysees to the first walking theme. Taxis stop him first. Their horns amuse him, so four horns came back with him to the U. S. to make their debuts with the Philharmonic. ... On he goes, swinging his cane, past a cafe door where trombones are moaning measures of La Maxixe. On he goes, past a cathedral, or perhaps the Grand Palais, slackens his pace a bit, then passes by on the other side. On he goes over the bridge to the Left Bank and there he stops again, this time...
...book deals with a wedding breakfast in a removed alcove of the Cafe de Paris at Carezzio, on the Riviera. Gerald Cairns, a sophisticated playwright, who has just succeeded in obtaining a divorce from his first wife, has been married by the British Consul to an idealistic ingenue of an Irish girl named Helen, who has nursed him through a four years' illness. The bibulous Consul Cheyne, his wife Gabrialle, an unscrupulous French ex-harlot, Helen's Dutch friend, warm sensuous Jenny van Haaren who struggles--at intervals--against her infatuation for Gerald, and Hilary Bentinck, the worldly-wise though...
Dark as the inside of an empty wine cask and reeking with the same stale smells is a certain evil subterranean cafe in Warsaw. Last week Polish detectives surrounded silently, peered down and into the place expectantly. They saw M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein in strange traffic with some two score creatures whose air was furtive, smugglerous...