Word: mocambo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them: Manhattan's Copacabana, E Borracho, Cafe Louis XIV; Los Angeles' Giro's and Mocambo; Washington's Harvey's, Chicago's Blackhawk, Philadelphia's Bookbinder's, Boston Latin Quarter, Miami's Copa City...
Cheered by nightclubbers as she staged a comeback in Hollywood: the silent screen's Mae (The Merry Widow) Murray, who is pushing 60. She showed up in the floor show at the stylish Mocambo, glided through the Merry Widow waltz...
...Every night she was out on the town, mostly with different escorts. In the daytime she burned up excess energy by taking golf lessons. Buoyed by the raves of the movie trade press for Annie and her performance, she treated nightclubbers (including her ex-husband) at Hollywood's Mocambo to an impromptu performance of the whole score. Then she impulsively grabbed customers as dancing partners and swung half a dozen of them around the floor...
...pretty corny. But it was hot and loud and Hollywood cafe society couldn't get enough of it. Last week, the Firehouse Five Plus Two was packing Hollywood's slick Mocambo one night a week with four-alarm crowds. To the Firehousers' chief, Ward Kimball, the explanation was simple: "After bebop, jazz sounds solid and melodic. Maybe that's why people are ready...