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There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...
Joseph Levitch) were the talk of the town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into...
After flying down to Rio, and running a gantlet of unhurried customs men, they sprawled on curving Copacabana Beach, drank mild guarana in the cafés, and stared at the jungled hillsides, splashed with the purple bloom of the quaresma, the "tree of Lent...
Scurrying for Cover. Last week some 150 politicos and others dutifully showed up at Manhattan's gaudy Copacabana nightclub. So, unfortunately, did two reporters. Next day there were wild cries of dismay as the distinguished guests scurried for cover. The reporters had spotted five judges of the state Supreme Court, at least three other judges, a U.S. Congressman, a whole slate of Tammany luminaries headed by Hugo E. Rogers, president of the borough of Manhattan...
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...