Word: trocadero
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Revolt, Almost. At the Vélodrome d'Hiver, 30,000 people wedged in and more tried to. Dapper doctors and smart young women in furs sat next to seedy old men in skullcaps. A young blonde who had a perfume shop near the Trocadero told a reporter that her hat had cost 28,000 francs ($235) at Lanvin's. She sat, vibrating with anger, until a speaker mentioned Schuman's Finance Minister René Mayer, whereupon she stood up, brandished her fist, and shrieked: "That man is an idiot! Let's have some action...
...paper. She wrote movie reviews and a gossip column, kept up the column after the divorce ("I don't remember whether we got unhitched in 1935 or 1936 and whether it was in Yucatan or Honduras"). But Publisher Wilkerson, who once ran a speakeasy and later the Trocadero nightclub and is now part owner of L'Aiglon and LaRue, is a man of unshakable principle: never knock an advertiser unless he forgets to advertise. When Billy retracted an accurate Gwynn item in 1937 because it offended an advertiser, Edie quit. For 4½ years she went into semiretirement...
...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 $6,500 custom...
...Just Asked Me to Dance." Brown-eyed Constance Clement, a onetime cake counter clerk, met her husband Luis, a chief petty officer, at the Trocadero dance hall in Sydney a year and a half ago. "He just asked me to dance and I kept dancing with him all night," she explained. Her destination: Humboldt, Neb. where her father-in-law is a contractor. She was much relieved about what her three sisters-in-law would be like after she met a "lovely" Nebraska girl who was working at the Western Union desk of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel...
...Hollywood's gaudy Trocadero restaurant, Redbook magazine gave a gaudy party to celebrate its selection of Bette Davis as 1939'$ outstanding film actress. More in evidence than Bette Davis were: 1) Actress Joan Bennett, with 2) her third husband, Producer Walter Wanger; 3) Actress Hedy Lamarr, with 4) her second husband-and Actress Bennett's second-Writer Gene Markey. A brash photographer, well aware that since Joan Bennett dyed her hair the color of Hedy Lamarr's (brown) they look like a sister act, asked the Wangers and the Markeys to pose together. The Wangers grabbed...