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...horse was only Bergh's first compassion. To arrest inhumane butchers, Bergh sometimes waded ankle-deep in blood through the slaughterhouses, braved barrages of pigs' feet, entrails and cows' livers. Undaunted by flying pails of swill, he invaded the dairies of uptown Manhattan, nauseated milk drinkers with his grisly descriptions of the milking (for public consumption) of ulcerous and dying cows. With police at his back, he broke up bloody dogfights, rat battles, bearbaitings. He hounded the rich who docked their horses' tails. He halted cattle vans and revolted the public with the spectacle of diseased...
...white hats and all the same. They all pushed and surged past him, getting into the train, and he looked for his date. A healthy-looking blonde pushed through the blue waves and he said hello, tripping over one of the sailorettes on the way. Then they walked uptown, and he learned that those funny blue and white hats are Mainbocher...
...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...