Word: copacabana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them admitted to the U.S., but he failed. The couple went to Mexico City, where they lived quietly in the dignified old suburb of Coyoacan. Invitations to their small, candlelit parties were sought eagerly. Later they went to Brazil, where they stayed at Rio's Copacabana Palace...
Last week, Carol summoned friends to his Copacabana suite (in which the Windsors had once stayed). He talked with them nervously, then he led them into the bedroom. Magda wore a white satin bed-jacket. She was dying, the doctors said. In the presence of the six witnesses, ex-King Carol married Magda Lupescu.* She assumed the title of Princess Elena of Rumania, the same name that Carol's bitter, blonde wife had once borne. Reporters said that the ex-King cried during the ceremony, but this was later denied...
...WTOP) makes $150,000. Ray Perkins (Denver's KFEL), top jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub. The chance to chatter at a microphone brings the nightspot dozens of extra celebrities, and $4,000 a week in extra bar chits...
Rudy Vallee finished a month's engagement at Chicago's Copacabana nightclub (TIME, April 21), got the place blacklisted by his union (American Guild of Variety Artists). Complained Rudy: he couldn't collect his last two weeks' pay ($13,600). Explained the Copacabana: business was terrible...
After ten years of silence, Ruth got the old showman's urge again last winter. She warmed up with three guest appearances on Rudy Vallee's radio show, then put in a three-week nightclub hitch (for $4,000 a week) at Manhattan's big, brassy Copacabana. By that time she was ready for radio again...