Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Miss Colbert learns of this from the reporter on Thursday evening, she is skyrocketed into fame as the no-girl at an expensive nightclub. Her first gilded performance, the high point of the show, is very amusing and there is no reason to worry with her. Since one can solve the story from here with the given facts, we shall leave the increasingly confusing action free to unravel itself on the screen...
Word was promptly forthcoming that a commission to design a new and less spectacular uniform had been sent to Earl Carroll, at present producing a show in a Miami Beach nightclub. Last month when the Hauptmann trial commenced in Flemington, it was stated that the gaudy sky blue and yellow uniforms of the New Jersey State troopers, now familiar to all the U. S., had been designed by Producer Carroll six years ago. Reprinted many times, the statement was never challenged until last week when the constabulary, perhaps embarrassed by being so closely connected with a gentleman once jailed...
...bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...
...Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled for $5,500. Last year he was divorced from Dorothy Dunbar. After defeating Max Schmeling, Max Baer played in vaudeville, was master of ceremonies in a nightclub, performed on the radio, acted in MGM's The Prizefighter and the Lady in which he engaged in a bout with Carnera. The bathrobe he wore into the ring last week was the one he wore in that cinema; on its back was the name of the hero, Steve...
...Charles Brownell; produced by James Montgomery & Henry R. Stern). The season's most disagreeable title cloaks one of the few straight Negro comedies ever produced on Broadway. Inoffensive and in spots disarmingly merry. Brain Sweat is concerned with Henry Washington's "projeck." Henry (fat, benign Billy Higgins, nightclub comedian) has not done a lick of work in two years. While his wife and son support him, he has been content to wear a fine patina on the seat of his rocking chair and cogitate means of making some easy money. "Brain sweatin','' explains Henry...