Word: copacabana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Life. Also on Geddes' designing boards are new stores for a shoe company, a facade for a Manhattan office building, and some new patterns for a silversmith. Another job, which he is especially interested in, is the $1,125,000 rebuilding of Miami's Copacabana nightclub...
Along about 1:30, the waiter slipped Betty the tab. It came to roughly $2,500. Betty wrote a check, and the party boisterously headed for fresh triumphs at the noisier Copacabana. Betty was having a wonderful time, even though the bottom of her dress was hanging in strips where people had trodden on it. But it was obviously getting too tiring for ladies like her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Faulkner, is 95 and does not drink. Leaning on her cane and her daughter, mother was taken home...
...Slipper. Betty rejoined her guests at the Copacabana. There, the fun bubbled over. Young Talbot whipped off a calfskin loafer, poured champagne in it for Betty to drink. Flashbulbs popped. Betty roared with glee. But Mr. Phyfe was distressed beyond words...
Fewer nightclubs were open, and some were working hard to stay open. The last two nights that Comic George Jessel played the Copacabana, the place threw away its minimum charge. The Latin Quarter advertised "a complete evening's entertainment for $5." Growled the headwaiter at the Latin Quarter: "The goose is here but she ain't layin' any more...
...Copacabana (United Artists...