Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angel, the Black Orchid in Chicago, the Chase Hotel in St. Louis-and straight to the sky." Belafonte got parts in John Murray Anderson's Almanac on Broadway and in the movie Carmen Jones. Then one RCA Victor album-Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean-transformed Belafonte from a nightclub headliner into an international show-business celebrity...
Belafonte's associates credit him with an uncanny instinct for avoiding overexposure and repetition. He has been going light on the nightclub circuit in favor of more cross-country tours to college campuses and small-town auditoriums. He feels that direct contact with such audiences revitalizes his performances. As a shrewd showman, he refuses to appear regularly on television because he dislikes both the overexposure of TV and the fact that it can rarely offer him the time to develop a finished show. He also refuses to plug his own hits indiscriminately. Having kicked off the calypso boom...
Castro went to speak to a meeting of some 2,000 restaurant, hotel, nightclub and casino workers, and promised that gambling would be resumed this week. Afterward, he exploded to a friend: "This nonsense cannot go on. This is the limit. Instead of solving problems, the government is creating them daily...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Broadway's Janis Paige in a straight role as the long-fanged proprietress of a Panama City nightclub...
...trouble arises at the present day because of the cleavage betwen 'popular' and 'serious' music, a cleavage unknown in earlier times." But the editor's revulsion could not be long held in check: "A certain kind of popular music is nowadays inevitably associated with the fetid atmosphere of a nightclub, dance hall or cabaret and its emphasis on cheap, moronic sexual allurement. But the service of the Holy Communion is, surely, something far removed from the idea of 'revelry by night...