Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself. He sings several songs, goes into his famed epileptic fits with popping eyes, rudder nose (schnozzle) and satchel-mouth. When he gets thrown out of places, he dusts himself off absently, saves face by a victorious 11011 sequitur. Cinema audiences are shocked into laughter, as were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side, he harmonized in Bowery saloons for handouts, sang in Brooklyn beer halls, church and lodge benefits, finally in vaudeville and the Silver Slipper nightclub with...
Morton Downey, Rudy Vallee and other high-priced crooners were doubtless astonished last week to learn that comparatively unknown singers in Broadway night clubs had been paid such prices for the past 13 years. But Messrs. Downey & Vallee must have been relieved to know that it was not the nightclub proprietors who paid. Exposed as anonymous benefactor to dozens of night club crooners was one George D. Phelan, 39-year-old employe of J. S. Bache & Co., Manhattan brokers...
...Purchase Price (Warner) is a simple tale of struggle and blind love in North Dakota. George Brent is a bovine farmer who needs a cook and wife. Barbara Stanwyck, Manhattan nightclub girl, wants to get-away-from-it-all. She answers his advertisement. The picture hews close to the line of probability. The farmer's life is dirty, uncomfortable, exacting. His house is a bare sty. His manners are bad. Repelled at first, Barbara Stanwyck grows to love George Brent as his woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked...
Socially famed for his weary observation that "Paris nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty windowpane" is the King of Denmark's excessively tall, sardonic, adventurous cousin Aage. Last week Prince Aage startled smart Paris by announcing: "With my wife I am going back to Morocco. The French Government has kindly permitted me to re-enlist in the Foreign Legion with my former rank of captain. I shall be on active service. My business career, which began in Paris a year ago, has proved infinitely disappointing...
...more mischievous than wicked. He makes rascality seem both easy and attractive as he did in The Public Enemy and Smart Money, two previous works by Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright who wrote Blonde Crazy. Good shot: Cagney casting hungry glances at the female patrons of a nightclub...