Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture has its Woolley moments, however. One of them comes when Monty, as a department-store Santa Claus, sucks "Alabama fog-cutters" (cocktail of unspecified ingredients) through a tube from a hot-water bottle concealed under his suit, and suddenly roars at all the kiddies and mammas: "How I hate you, one and all!" Another occurs when he stares coldly at an unwelcome female admirer (Sara Allgood) and remarks: "I have no idea what bearing it may have on your plans, but I now propose to remove my trousers...
Dorothy Donegan is a homely, unhappy-looking young woman whose earnestly inspired pianism last week was drawing throngs to Elmer's Cocktail Lounge, an obscure nitery in the heart of Chicago's Loop. Unlike most specialists in swinging the classics, Dorothy begins by playing her classics as straight as any Town Hall pianist. When she has polished off Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Schubert's Serenade or a batch of Chopin Nocturnes in the most acceptable highbrow fashion, Dorothy shuts her eyes. Her feet begin to pound the floor. Her face contorts...
...feature of Dorothy Donegan's swing piano playing is her footwork. Newcomers at Elmer's Cocktail Lounge sometimes swear that she has a drum concealed under the piano. She has not. That incessant triple-fortissimo thud that punctuates Dorothy's improvisations comes simply from Dorothy's ample feet, hitting the floor boards in loud, unconscious ecstasy...
...United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...
...Douglas fans may well agree that by pouring old wine into his new cocktail shaker, Author Douglas has once again produced a palatable mixture of ageless theme and modern viewpoint with the expertness of one of the oldest hands in the business...