Word: mistinguette
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Paging Krafft-Ebing. Built during the Florida boom, the pink hotel is "a Mistinguett, a Magda Lupescu among hotels-old and slightly raddled . . . waiting patiently for the chosen few who could afford its haughty hospitality." The raffish oddballs who people the Dennis-Erskine hotel are pretty special, and would have raised Krafft-Ebing's interest if not his eyebrows. There is T. J. Sturt III, a millionaire alcoholic who wears a pink girdle and phones random city fire departments to announce blazes of mysterious origin. There is seventyish L. Harvey Crull Jr., who puts under doors pamphlets announcing...
...Died. Mistinguett, nee Jeanne Bourgeois, 82, French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music hall of her time. The peak of her long career came early in the century when she played at the Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with...
...casually asked: 'How are the revues in Paris these days?' I thought: 'Here it comes.' After hesitating for a moment, I collected my thoughts and answered: 'Your Highness, revues in Paris enjoy worldwide fame simply because there used to be such outstanding stars as Mistinguett and Josephine Baker, but their days are gone...The revue in Paris does not appear to be what it used...
...while crowds along the way cheered and jitterbugged in the street, they rode in slow procession in an open carriage to Juan-les-Pins, two miles away, for the reception. Ten blaring jazz bands serenaded them along the way. After them came 400 wedding guests, including Music Hall Star Mistinguett and U.S. Vice Consul William Bates. Other celebrators: French army Senegalese, local fishermen, long-haired existentialists from Paris, two men carrying a twelve-foot clarinet, cagefuls of doves that had been let loose to flap overhead. Consumption of the 400 guests at the reception: 300 bottles of champagne, 100 bottles...
...prove that she could still show most ingénues a thing or two, France's durable oldtime Musicomedienne Mistinguett, who admits to 70, put on a pair of tights and gave photographers another look at the legs that were world famous before Grable or Dietrich were born...