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...life of an undergraduate gigolo is not an easy one, according to the complaints of students recently hired out as "dancers" by the Student Employment Office. Paid two dollars for attending a three-and-one-half-hour party, some of the hirelings have likened their employment to a prison...
September Song; Just a Gigolo (Joe Mooney Quartet, Decca, 2 sides). The first record by the quietly unorthodox new jazz group which became an instant success in Manhattan (TIME...
Died. Julius Keller, 81, New York restaurateur (Maxim's) famed as "the father of cafe society," credited with introducing the gigolo into U.S. night life (an early employe: Rudolph Valentino); in Southampton, L.I. He once recalled firing Singer Rosa Ponselle from Maxim's, later meeting her when she was a Metropolitan prima donna and asking innocently : "Where are you working now, Rosa...
Died. Sir William Rothenstein, 73, amiable, bespectacled British artist who for five decades made competent portraits of celebrities, achieved celebrity himself with his anecdote-crammed memoirs (Men and Memories, Since Fifty) about such famed friends as Pablo Picasso ("the gigolo of geometry") and H. G. Wells ("a great literary cartoonist"). Sample Rothenstein sidelight on a celebrity: Albert Einstein once explained to him why an associate kept shaking his head as the great physicist talked: "He is my mathematician," said Einstein, "who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a very...
...interviews a wonderful, boozy old floozy (Esther Howard) who could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full...