Word: nightspot
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Pluggers operate throughout the country but work most feverishly in Chicago, Hollywood and Manhattan, where the important radio and nightspot entertainers can be buttonholed. On Hollywood's Vine Street, some 50 determined merchandisers lie constantly in wait for Bing Crosby, most highly sought contact in the business, since he is allegedly able to turn an obscure song into a national hit with a couple of performances (example: White Christmas). In Manhattan, where the plugging fraternity boasts some 325 workers in sharply draped suits, some 35 play a weekly game of gin rummy with Fred Waring in a Broadway automat...
Enrico Caruso Jr., son of the late great tenor, took a late plunge into what he hopes will be a "serious singing career," and did it the hard way-amid the smoke, clatter and twirling bare legs of a Buffalo nightspot. One conscientious nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...
...Hollywood scale of business he is a midget; yet even in that hyperbolic community, he is regarded with respect. He is the editor-publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, in whose columns it pays, as all Hollywood is aware, to advertise. He promoted and operated the prodigiously successful Trocadero, a nightspot which took in $3,800,000 in two years and eight months. He is a confessed onetime friend of the once influential Willie Bioff, the racketeer now in jail who tried to dominate the industry. He has married and divorced four young, handsome wives. He owns a $6,500 custom...
Ethel Waters was drawing record crowds last week to the same nightspot in which she first sang on Broadway 20 years ago (Cafe Zanzibar-then the Plantation Club). On her dressing table the husky, dusky chanteuse propped a framed poem...
...Miami Beach Lou Walter's Latin Quarter, and Giro's, a dazzling new nightspot, have become the places-one-must-be-seen-in. The exclusive, million-dollar Surf Club, closed last year, is open again, has 100 new members. The snooty, conservative Bath Club is having a terrific year, reminiscent of the plushest days...