Word: mocambo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave, in March, he went to the West Coast to sun his ailing sinuses. A lithe, five-goal polo player, Ramfis was presently presiding over ringside tables at Mocambo and L'Escoffier. One evening he grandly wrote out a check for $25,000 to Walter Winchell for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund...
...Hollywood's Mocambo nightclub, up & coming Cinemactress Grace (Mogambo) Kelly, 24, turned up for dinner as the date of mellowing (52) Crooner Bing Crosby, who bridled painfully when a photographer caught him dancing without the hair piece he usually wears before the cameras...
...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
Without tippling a drop himself, Tevis F. Morrow, 56, a relatively rich oilman by Dallas standards, showed Hollywood a Texas-type New Year's Eve party. He took over the entire Mocambo, Sunset Strip's expensive playspot, complete with two orchestras, three bars, wine list and kitchen. Among the items which impressed the social reporters: imported 10-gallon hats for the guest list of 300, which included cinema's great and near great plus Parisienne Songstress Edith Piaf, Doris Duke, Queen Mother Nazli of Egypt, and Hotelman Conrad Hilton; 115 Cadillacs in the parking lot; five detectives...
Dorothy got started on the road to success when the practiced eyes of Pianist-Arranger Phil Moore lit on her at Hollywood's Mocambo. Moore, who coached Lena Horne, wrote some new material for Dorothy, gave her some hints on how to use it. Her big trouble at first: "I was too inhibited to give strangers sexy looks...