Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vienna, recruiting new girls. A typical example was pretty Belgian Marie Vernaecke, who was set up in a Mayfair flat, married to a complaisant Englishman to qualify for British citizenship; she earned the brothers around $5,600 a month. Unfortunately, Belgian police caught Carmello and Eugene in a nightclub just as they were closing a deal with two more Belgian girls...
Less than a year ago, Laos was a country so caught in corruption and chaos that it seemed headed for Communism. Now the government is anti-Communist rather than neutralist; ministers no longer hang out at Dirty Dan's nightclub; no ministry can purchase a car without the signature of Phoui or his Finance Minister, and both men are showing an admirable tendency toward writers' cramp. Into this tiny nation of 2,000,000 people, the U.S. has since January 1955 poured $225 million (plus large amounts of classified military aid). The future looks promising, if the past...
...week Betty Grable, for six years Hollywood's top female box-office attraction, hit the comeback trail-with both legs. Idle in the movies since 1955's How To Be Very, Very Popular ("It was a turkey"), she had allowed herself to be talked into preparing a nightclub routine for the plush, high-priced Hollywood-Las Vegas-New York-Miami circuit. Explained the Latin Quarter's General Manager Ed Risman: "We booked her because of nostalgia." But for a packed house at her opening in New York, it was the night the old nostalgia burned down...
...Century-Fox, Betty Grable's assets-pretty, round face, small, high-pitched singing voice, and the ability to stay on her feet through the dance numbers-were parlayed by skillful sound engineers and cameramen into a vision of the little girl next door turned vaudevillian. Under the harsh nightclub lights, Performer Grable looked uncomfortably like the little girl's well-preserved mother, as she sang...
...trio now has two briskly selling albums, plus as many nightclub engagements as it can handle (including a Las Vegas offer that may go to $3,000 a week). A columnist suffering from typewriter fatigue recently, tagged the trio the Gilbert & Sullivans of Jazz. A more apt title might be the James Joyces of Jive...