Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have selected twelve bridesmaids, twelve ushers, a flower girl and a ring bearer. The night before the big day, the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Nugent of Waukegan, ILL., will hold a rehearsal dinner for the wedding party and relatives, probably at a private Washington club. The church service will follow the conventional form...
Except that it isn't. The performance of a supper-club songbird, in fact, is a coldly calculated exercise in group seduction. Every movement, every lighting change is as carefully mapped out as a market-research study and a subliminal soft-sell. There is, for instance, the old "arctic gust" routine, whereby the air conditioning in a club is turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer...
...acts for nightclub singers-Robert Goulet, Gordon and Sheila MacRae, Jane Morgan, Teresa Brewer, Connie Francis, Bobby Vinton-providing everything from songs and arrangements to lighting and makeup. No detail is overlooked. They scramble into the rafters to scrub the grime off the spotlights, hustle around a club blowing out the candles because "they detract attention from the stage." They wire the singer's microphone through an echo-chamber box, or provide a cordless shortwave mike that transmits to an FM receiver hooked up with the sound system...
Director Alfred Hitchcock will come to Harvard July 14 to receive an honorary award from the Harvard Dramatics Club. The award also marks the opening of Hitchcock's 50th film, Tern Curtain, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews...
William Earl Casper Jr., 35, used to be a fat, sick Congregationalist, who won a lot of money playing golf. He is now a slim, healthy Mormon. Nothing else has changed. Last week, at San Francisco's Olympic Country Club golf course, Billy won the U.S. Open for the second time-without even trying...