Word: ciro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist and intellectual, Hilda now shuns Ciro's bar and others of the gayer spots. Except for a lingering lunch at the quiet Ambassadeurs, she sticks to her comfortable apartment in tree-graced Calle Londres. The deep blue walls assuage her spirit, set off her shining blonde hair...
Mexico's famed muralist Diego Rivera, who recently decorated the walls of Mexico City's swank Ciro's nightclub with luscious, careless, postcardish nudes, stayed away from the Picasso opening. But he had an anti-Picasso blast ready for the first reporter who came his way. Roared he: "The Society's role is clear: to serve those trying to preserve European cultural . . . domination. . . . Behind this show are dealers. . . . This is proved by the fact that [the Society's] activities were begun with a non-American artist of overwhelming prestige...
...There was some split second tunesmithing. In Hollywood, a few hours after the news from Pearl Harbor, Composer Lew Pollack and Lyricist Ned Washington produced a number which Comedian Bert Wheeler sang that night at Ciro's: Oh, we didn't want to do it, but they're asking for it now. So we'll knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis. . . . They'll hear the beat of a million feet of people who'd rather fight than eat, And here we come, here we come. I'd hate...
...hear uptown, like Claude Hopkins and Billy Hioks. These days Hall is working with Red Allen's band down at Cafe Society, and you may or may not have noticed him. He never won anybody's Down Beat poll, and I can't recall his being photographed at Ciro's, lingering over a long drink with a Sweater Giri-Funny thing, though, the way he plays clarinet is enough to send Goodman and Shaw back to where they come from...