Word: copacabana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Monte Proser, 39, Manhattan showman and self-styled saloonkeeper (the Copacabana); and Jane Ball, 24, shapely cinemactress (Keys of the King dom) ; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Hope...
...travels of Fred Balentine and B. Joe Nielson are now history, but include such N. Y. notables as Zanzibar, Stork, Waldorf, Astor Roof, La Martinique, Copacabana, El Morecco, and the Diamond Horseshoe. These muchly-traveled lads must truly be big-city smoothies...
Satisfied that there was some cheating, the Mayor loosed his first attack against three clubs: tiny La Vie Parisienne (which seats 75 people, calls itself "the most intimate room in the city"), alleged to owe $13,693 in back city taxes; big, garish Copacabana (which The New Yorker recently described as "life in a boiler factory") allegedly owing $37,370; and the Stork Club, top playground of all, allegedly owing...
Happy gyps her out of her winnings at the crap table, hurries on with his insolvent boys to Schultz's Copacabana, in Brooklyn. The vengeful sisters and their father follow. From there on Happy's two-timing gets more & more complicated and less & less funny. Too much of this dizzy story shows signs of hard labor; about half is rather enjoyable. Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood...
Sophie Tucker, last of the Red-Hot Mamas (see cut), emitted great waves of sexagenarian heat at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. A 179-lb. wraith of her former self, she wowed her audience with numbers from Some of These Days (which she introduced in 1909) to Mairzy Doats, rocked the club with a doubly meaningful closing act called "Dr. Tucker's Remedy." Said Miss Tucker: "Oldtime circuit vaudeville will never come back, but my show is the same as it has always been; favorites last. Everyone, everyone is so friendly, and as for my friend," she gestured across...