Word: nightspots
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...jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub. The chance to chatter at a microphone brings the nightspot dozens of extra celebrities, and $4,000 a week in extra bar chits...
Sideline Seat. Nowadays, Columnist Rose is waist-deep in the fanciest possible metaphors. At its best, his talk combines the shriller styles of E. E. Cummings, a nightspot headwaiter, P. T. Barnum and a Polo Grounds peanut vendor. But he flavors this potpourri with a cynical wit. "What people don't seem to see," he complains, "is the Billy who sits on the sidelines and laughs at the game...
...Paint the Joint Red." Just after Repeal, Billy was hired (at $1,000 a week) by an underworld syndicate, backed by some of the more distinguished members of the Brooklyn Beer Gang, to run a big Broadway nightspot called the Casino de Paree. With the Casino, Billy revolutionized the nightclub business. His plan of action to attract the masses: 1) "Red is the most successful and exciting color, so paint the joint red"; 2) "Crowd them together-they'll communicate the excitement through their elbows"; 3) "Keep the prices reasonable, the liquor good and the food edible"; 4) "Make...
...Giro's, a plushy nightspot in Mexico City, the band beat out a rumba rhythm. Americanos were on their feet almost before the Mexicans. Rotund Leon Henderson and his smartly tailored brunette wife, vacationing in Mexico, listened to a few frenzied beats, then let themselves...
...theatrical road since 1917, two months after she was born in Milwaukee. Her Russian musician father and Egyptian mother-gypsies both -took her to China, India and Europe (where on cold nights Gypsy slept with the bear cubs). At 14 she was playing a secondhand accordion in a Chicago nightspot. She has played in Paris, in Sweden (before King Gustaf), in Egypt (before Farouk), in Washington (for President Roosevelt...