Word: rivieras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This summer Eddie Fisher got another chance. Suddenly in need of a replacement, the big Riviera Club across the Hudson from Manhattan called Fisher in, put him on as headline singer...
Coming out on the Riviera's big floor, he sang such ballads as / Wanna Be Loved, Wanderin', There's No Tomorrow, stopped the show. His warm, strong baritone, faintly reminiscent of Tony Martin's, still had the natural flow and phrasing which he had developed by singing in a Philadelphia synagogue, and the unsophisticated delivery which "I got," he says, "from helping dad hawk fruits and vegetables from a truck when I was a kid." When the reviews appeared next morning, Fisher was described as "merely wonderful," "a sensational singing voice and style," "terrific...
...floor of Straus, which is reached only by an exhausting four-floor climb, Sadri has taken his abode. He finds that Straus A-42 is the most comfortable place he has ever been in--the other places he has ever been in--the other places being palaces and Riviera resorts...
After more than ten years in the U.S., writing about China, Philosopher Lin Yutang settled down on the French Riviera last year to explore the mysteries of America. A glamorous, not to say exotic, figure when dishing out pearls of wisdom from the mysterious East, Philosopher Lin is a little like a peddler dealing out secondhand clothes when he begins thumbing through a Western library...
Served With Skill. Zanuck breaks up this grueling routine with three-day weekends, occasional flights in season to Sun Valley, where he skis expertly, and four-week vacations on the Riviera mingling with the international set ("They're freaks to me, and I'm a freak to them...