Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid as much as $480 for their passage; distraught women; doctors...
Across the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey, sitting high and cinematic on the Palisades, is Ben Marden's ornate million-dollar Riviera. Its show, gaudy and gay but clean as one of Beau Brummell's neckcloths, has routine ballet and crooning, a panting jitterbug fest, Comic Joe Lewis, who-after rusticating most of the evening-goes to town at the end, and Mary Raye and Naldi, whose beautiful dancing steals the show...
Only swank night spot with anything like a full-sized show (Hotel St. Regis' gay, fast-moving ice frolic is the best brief show) is the lustrous Rainbow Room with its dazzling night view from the 6sth floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. Suave, refined, pleasantly conventional, the show headlines Musicomedy-Find-of-The-Year Mary Martin, who sings My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Leave...
...Seeing gay, smiling Negro Bill Robinson on the street, most people would guess he was 40. Watching him tapdance, most people would guess he was 30. Last week Manhattan had the chance to see him on the street and dancing, simultaneously. Accompanied by a police escort, followed by a crowd, for 16 blocks down Broadway he gaily, grinningly, unweariedly clicked his heel-&-toe. It was Bojangles' way of celebrating his 61st birthday...
...Crimson team, composed of Ben Forhes at one, Gay Dillingham at two, Ben Dillingham at three, and Cam Burage at back, with Jack Lewis as alternate, led four to three at half time...