Word: nightclubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture focuses on an upper-crusty family (Ian Hunter, Dorothy Peterson, Zasu Pitts), follows them through 25 years of fussing against change, winds up by converting them all to the new state of things. To make the rapprochement complete, fluttery maiden Sister Zasu sings tintype torch songs in a nightclub floor show, treads lively measures with Hollywood's Sid Silvers, 52nd Street's Jack White...
...which, especially in the first days of fall, Manhattanites find as heady as a new vintage. Manhattan is also proud of its nightspots, where the atmosphere, though equally shady, is not so crystal-pure. When Repeal put an end to Prohibition's frowzy summer, Manhattan's undercover nightclubs, legally uncorked at last, popped and fizzed into a boom-de-ay of business gaiety. When the egregious Billy Rose converted a theatre into his Casino de Paree, where hundreds instead of scores could wine, dine, dance and watch a show, he started something. The Casino de Paree died three...
...Austria's music festival in Salzburg (see p. 37), the main performance is not the whole show at Central City. There are saloons and gambling halls with oldtime atmosphere and Sheila Barrett doing impersonations in a nightclub. On the schedule this year are trips through the gold mines, a hose-cart race by the volunteer fire department, a rock-drilling contest for Colorado miners...
King of Gamblers (Paramount). A newshawk (Lloyd Nolan) and a nightclub singer (Claire Trevor) unraveling some fascinating underworld homicides perpetrated by Akim Tamiroff...
...Hollywood, Producer Hal Roach (Our Gang comedies) has arranged a string of Hollywood scenes calculated to spotlight Haley and Kelly in their inoffensive cutups. Taken to a nightclub by Lopez, Cecilia and Nellie see Joe, employed as a waiter, pretend that he is a performer, stumble into a bit of clowning which costs him his job. On a visit to a studio, they watch Lyda Roberti undulate, meet Laurel & Hardy who burlesque handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce...