Word: zanzibar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ethel Waters was drawing record crowds last week to the same nightspot in which she first sang on Broadway 20 years ago (Cafe Zanzibar-then the Plantation Club). On her dressing table the husky, dusky chanteuse propped a framed poem...
...master exponents. Among those who do not belong to the Flute Club are Wayman Carver, a brilliant hot flutist who has played with some of the best Negro jazz bands, and Alberto Socarras, also a spirited syncopator, whose rumba band was last week at Broadway's Café Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming at Hawaiian beaches with his friend Duke...
...character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through many another comedy thriller (The Ghost Breakers, My Favorite Blonde, They Got Me Covered), strutted down the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco...
There's plenty of slapstick mostly a clever rehash of the best parts in "The Road to Singapore" and The Road to Zanzibar," Bob Hope and Bing Crosby get chased around until they run into Dorothy Lamour. Then they enter the chase, neither overlooking the slightest opportunity to cut the other's throat. The only hand between them is the memory of their common "Aunt Lucy" whose ghostly form makes numerous and picturesque appearances throughout the picture. Bing eventually comes out the winner. He gets the girl. But Bob manages to corral a choice specimen from his temporary harem...
Between rounds, The Fleet's In manages to keep tuneful. It has seven new melodies, of which the best is Tangerine. They were composed by Victor Schertzinger, songwriter (Marcheta) and director (One Night of Love, Road to Zanzibar), who died of a heart attack while making the picture...