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...CHICAGO Located on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building, the women's toilets at the Signature Room restaurant offer a spectacular panorama of downtown Chicago through floor-to-ceiling windows. Meanwhile, at the city's Voyeur nightclub, women using the bathroom can operate a closed-circuit surveillance system that shows pictures of the dance floor outside?perfect for tracking a cheating date or possible catch...
Reagan felt with some justification that his union activity damaged his career as an actor. After more than 50 films, he was getting no offers of good parts. By 1953 he was reduced to doing a nightclub routine in Las Vegas, where he introduced various singers and dancers and made apologetic jokes about his own inability to either sing or dance. Was the optimist discouraged? Hardly. He was soon offered a new job that was to change his whole life. For $125,000 a year, he would act as host and occasional star of a weekly television drama series...
...troupe also included Judy Tuvim, later the Broadway and movie marvel Judy Holliday.) "Wonderful Town," set in 1935, has many echoes of the team's early days: one scene, "One Hundred Easy Ways (To Lose a Man)," is based on an old Revuers sketch; another set in a nightclub called the Village Vortex, a reference to the Village Vanguard where the Revuers first attracted notice. The score also bursts with the spirit and confidence that must have gone into its speedy creation - as if the trio were saying, Okay, let's write a Village scene-setter...
...October, he began behind-the-scenes negotiations to allow student groups to hold off-campus events in clubs and private venues, securing written contracts from owners. Last year, the College temporarily banned club parties following nightclub tragedies in Chicago and Rhode Island, and an injury at a club event over Harvard-Yale weekend...
DIED. JUNE TAYLOR, 86, Emmy Award--winning choreographer whose high-kicking, wide-smiling routines on The Jackie Gleason Show introduced the Broadway-inspired chorus line to television audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Miami. When a bout of tuberculosis at age 20 derailed her career as a Chicago nightclub dancer, she founded her own touring company, the June Taylor Dancers, and in 1946 ran into Gleason at a Baltimore nightclub...