Word: copacabana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, besides his three-a-night routine at the Copacabana supper club, Peter Hayes also: 1) began a four-a-day run at the Roxy Theater (thereby upping his weekly take to $4,000); 2) quit radio writing, acting and singing (because he wanted time to sleep); 3) landed a principal comedy role in the Nunnally Johnson-George Kaufman fall play Park Avenue; 4) was offered, but had to refuse because of previous commitments, the serious Eddie Dowling role in The Glass Menagerie road company; 5) received a $30,000 offer to do one movie for International Pictures...
Hayes thinks his comedy ideas are best expressed in his characterization of "Punchy Callahan"-a hilarious but touching portrait of an ex-pug, as shapeless, scuffed and unwanted as a worn-out boxing glove. Even after three weeks, busy Copacabana waiters still stop, look & listen to Punchy...
...fifth-floor suite in Rio's gleaming Copacabana Palace Hotel, one floor below ex-King Carol of Rumania, Surits looked out on the white sands of Copacabana Beach. Politely he said that it reminded him of Russia's Black Sea beaches. As soon as Brazilian Foreign Minister João Neves da Fontoura had loudly and lengthily denied his undiplomatic blurt to New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Joseph Newman ("Russia is the greatest danger to the world"), Surits presented his credentials at palm-shaded, swan-graced Palácio Itamaraty, the Foreign Office. Pint-sized Surits beamed...
...brilliant night life was forthwith blacked out. Three million-dollar establishments in the capital-the Urea, Atlantico and Copacabana-shut down...
...Debonair Dancer Fred Astaire matching taps with Gene Kelly, also lightfooting with ex-Copacabana show girl Lucille Bremer through a magnificent pantomime of Limehouse Blues...