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...celebrities as Noel Coward and Lynda Bird Johnson. Sipping gin and Coca-Cola, he holds forth six nights a week from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., earns $20,000 a year. He cannot abide sing-along customers, discourages them by "changing keys so often that they become confused." - Ernie Swann, at Detroit's Salamandre room, prides himself on living up to the motto "You're a Stranger Here Once." Between gulps of Liebfraumilch, he listens sympathetically to the troubles of the drinkers who huddle around his piano bar, treats each individually with an appropriate number drawn from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Mood Merchants | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Sound a bellow with a whisper, match a maharajah with a mouse, mix wit with whimsy, and you have the combination for an evening of charming entertainment by Flanders and Swann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann break into still another diverting ditty, such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will break into still another diverting ditty such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They guide their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 17, 1967 | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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