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Other dining places, for visitors with an adventurous palate, are the Athens-Olympia (Greek), the Nile (Syrian), Chez Lucien (French), and the South Seas (Polynesian). But in the end, after heart-burn and indigestion, everyone usually returns to Elsie's for her immortal fifty cent roast-beef special...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON | 6/21/1961 | See Source »

...chess sets, and has presented such theatrical products as Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Old Maid and the Thief and a revue based on the cartoon characters of Jules (Sick, Sick, Sick) Feiffer. Renaissance imitations have appeared all over Sunset Strip-the Unicorn, Pandora's Box, Chez Paulette, the Bit-but the closest approximation is Positano at Malibu Beach, where patrons sip $1 spumoni sodas, play Monopoly and pingpong, and take in entertainment that ranges from productions of G. B. Shaw to a nudist-colony director answering questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Hipitaph | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...After Dark. Although nearly every West European city except respectable Rome has its striptease shows, the bawdiest are in Paris, Hamburg and Brussels. Among the popular places: Brussels' Chez Paul au Gaity; Paris' flashy Lido, and the broader diversions of the famed Crazy Horse. Hamburg's Reeperbahn nightclub strip is Germany's gaudiest and roughest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOURIST EUROPE 1960: A Guide to Prices & PIaces | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Delwati guina Chez Maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Most Happy Fellah | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...this is, more or less, the story of a fellah who once lived in the Cairo slum of Attarine, is now at Chez Maxim's (where Bandleader Azzam himself hit the big time), and adores his girl "like tomato sauce" (salsa del pommodore in Azzam's pidgin Italian). But the words do not matter. They merely complement the international melody, which tinkles like goat bells near the White Nile and clicks like the heels of an Andalusian gypsy. Scored by Azzam for bongos, flute, tambourine, echo chamber and his own voice, Mustapha is adapted from an Egyptian student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Most Happy Fellah | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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