Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars ask her for autographs. When Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley (They Were Expendable) came to New York, he picked out Hazel Scott...
...fans had known all along what was coming. Hazel Scott, star Negro entertainer of Manhattan's Cafe Society Uptown, was doing what she does best, the thing that has lifted her into showdom's top rank and made her this season's Manhattan sensation: swinging the classics...
...Uptown, Downtown. Hazel got this lucrative bad habit while quite young. Born in Trinidad, she had lived in New York's Harlem most of her life. When she was a sober little girl of 13, she was given free piano lessons by a teacher in the Juilliard School. Her teacher got sick-the lessons stopped. She kept on studying the classics herself, but to relieve boredom, now & then sneaked in a few stray blue-notes and hot syncopations. This became instinctive to the point of a wonderful vice...
...armload of packages, got in each other's way. Inside the apartment she found that the movers had not yet arrived with the first load; they never have. When they did get there, naturally, they decided to knock off for lunch before unloading. Mrs. Roosevelt went back uptown for her own lunch. She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho...
...This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies kidded earnest women block wardens until the tearful and embarrassed women gave up their jobs...