Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt will be made to report every cinema, every play and nightclub that opens in Manhattan, every book that is published. Instead, a single "man-about-town" feature is contemplated wherein ostensibly one writer reports (as in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town") the most entertaining things lately seen, heard, read, done...
...suit brought by Muriel Johnston, nightclub entertainer, against Adele Ryan, granddaughter of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, for alienating the affections of her husband, Robert Johnston, was settled out of court in Manhattan, reputedly for $40,000. After the suit was filed, Johnston was drowned with -several others when their sloop foundered in Long Island Sound...
Harry Richman (Reichman), Manhattan nightclub host and Follies star, bought a four-year-old 36-ft. cabin cruiser named Chevalmar II. Last week he received insurance papers for it and immediately set out on a fishing cruise with Follies Girls Helen Walsh, Virginia Biddle, Gladys Glad and Miss Glad's husband, Colyumist Mark Hellinger. At Greenport, L. I., where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames...
...cinemactress named Virginia Rappe. He was acquitted. But, because many suspicious persons thought he might have caused the death of Cinemactress Rappe by attacking her, perhaps with a beer bottle, no cinema producers dared antagonize their audiences by hiring Funnyman Arbuckle. Funnyman Arbuckle tried a vaudeville tour, a Hollywood nightclub. When the nightclub failed, he got a job writing "gags" for Mack Sennett, has more recently, as "William Goodrich," been an assistant director for Educational Film Exchanges...
...flash in tin-pan alley, it was a typical troubadour's success ? quick, dramatic, amazingly profitable. Half a year ago, though he had a chauffeur to drive his Rolls-Royce, Morton Downey was wondering if he had enough money to hire an orchestra and open a nightclub. He had just come back from London where in 1927 the Prince of Wales liked his voice so much that he had him sing an encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much...