Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which is held several feet away from him instead of close to the ropes, against his lips; Ayres wearing a full dress suit in a nightclub, a sartorial liberty which even Gene Tunney in his most precious period never ventured. Only real shots: the façade of Madison Square Garden; some cleverly interposed scenes from actual Garden fights...
...world weariness for a youth of 25. This impression is rapidly broken down by the exultant whoops with which he greets his friends and acquaintances in theatre lobbies and other public places. Broadwayfarers were still repeating last week a typical Beaton bonmot applied month ago to a famed, garish nightclub personality : "My dear, how too, too vomitous!" In his suite at the Ritz last week orchidaceous Mr. Beaton received reporters anxious to learn a few facts about a young man who has in the past three years sketched or photographed most of the famed beauties of Britain...
Every once in a while there breaks a news story so pregnant with sensation that city editors lick their chops and fervently mutter, "Oh, boy! That's made to order!" The trial of a "lovely society heiress" for the murder of a "noted architect," with a "beautiful nightclub dancer" as star witness for the prosecution would be just such a story. Last week Hearst's New York American was full of it. But the story was literally made to order-an ingenious new circulation stunt...
With something more than a sly wink at Colyumist Calvin Coolidge (TIME, June 30) the New York Evening Graphic, sexy Bernarr Macfadden tabloid, last week began a daily feature by wisecracking Nightclub Hostess Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan.- Headed "Texas Guinan Says" the article is typographically arranged much like "Calvin Coolidge Says" which serious newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together...
...waiter in the Paris nightclub Chez Florence spilled hot gravy down the back of Dagmar Godowsky, cinemactress, daughter of Pianist Leopold Godowsky. When Mile Godowsky screamed her Argentinian escort rose, destroyed a bottle of champagne over the waiter's head, went to gaol...