Word: copa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last four weeks. Wrote nightclub critics: "Sensational," "ear-caressing," "the most exciting gal singer we've heard in a long time." Next week the Coba moves Mindy to the top of its bill. She is the youngest singer (22) who has ever headlined the big-time Copa...
...Copa Calling. In August 1947, Mindy left Whiteman to try a solo act in nightclubs. Her manager recalls: "What charm! She delivered a song as if it were a baseball." Mindy's delivery improved rapidly; in quick succession she sang at New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, Cleveland's Mounds Club, Miami's Clover Club...
...Then the Copa called, and two month ago RCA Victor admitted Mindy to it select list of popular singers. Her firs sides, One More Time and Twelve O'Clock and All Is Well, got good reviews. Tw Hollywood studios have started preliminary screen tests...
When it reopens as Copa City late this month, patrons will see a massive, flesh-colored, grand-piano-shaped building, with no openings except eight doors and four "blind" doors for fire escapes. The glittering interior is even more startling. Instead of being supported by columns, the ceilings and walls of the rooms are suspended from overhead trusses. The rooms can be made bigger or smaller, depending on the size of the crowd, simply by ra:sing the walls through slits in the ceiling. Geddes hopefully expects that Copa City, "an entirely new idea in buildings," will start a revolution...
Having shrunk from 183 lbs. to 158, he received his discharge last Christmas Day, and was back on Broadway (at the Strand) a month later. When he moved over to the Copa May 30, the boom...