Word: nightspot
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...dismiss monuments ("The place is practically crawling with history") in favor of menus. Where Baedeker might discreetly warn of dangers abroad (beware of bedbugs), Fielding's personal, pithy and frank approach would make old Herr Baedeker blush. Is the traveler enticed by a sexy blonde in a continental nightspot? Fielding's warnings: 1) chances are she can't leave the premises before closing time, and 2) even if she can, "she might leave you a souvenir. There's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...
Last year-in a nightspot near Rome's glossy Via Veneto, Filippo met a pretty, lissome British starlet named Belinda Lee. Soon Belinda was announcing her intention to divorce her photographer husband, and confiding to friends and the press: "Only Italian men know how to treat women, how to make a woman feel she is really a woman." Last week Belinda flew into Rome from South Africa, where she had been making a film. Filippo met her at the airport, took her to a friend's apartment, worriedly tried to explain that he could not leave his wife...
Sentimental Perfume. The daughter of a Lyon lingerie manufacturer, tiny (5 ft.) Singer Micheyl started out to be a painter, changed her mind at the Lyon Ecole des Beaux Arts and talked her way into a job singing in a little Left Bank nightspot. From there she graduated to the big clubs. She writes her own material, all told has turned out some 80 songs, 50 of which have been published. They are simple, marked by a soap-opera concern for the minutiae of middle-class life, and full of frankly sentimental perfume, e.g., "It takes so much love...
Just a little over a year ago, the owner of a small Miami nightspot gave her job at $125 a week ("It seemed like fortune"). Then Walter Winchell spottec her, and Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel hired Roberta at $1,700 a week. Decca Records signed her. Now she makes as much as $5,000 a week...
Between drafty exposures at an airy London nightspot, Minnesota-born Stripper Lili St. Cyr cited another visitor to Britain, Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, as an unchic example of how not to dress when not in professional dishabille. Strange as it seems, Lili deplored Marilyn's strains at the seams: "I do wish that she would dress better. I don't think it's nice to show too much. It's embarrassing for one's escort...