Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded, actually affects...
...Singing Fool Jolson is Al Stone, a singing waiter at an inferior nightclub, who is daft over a revue-girl (Josephine Dunn). He writes a song, sings it to the revue-girl, is heard by one Marcus (Edward Martindel), a theatrical shogun. Shogun Marcus, impressed, wants Al to write more songs, gives Molly, the revue-girl, a break. Four years later Al & Molly are Broadway pets, but Al loses Molly, who becomes infatuated with John Perry (Reed Howes). There is a three-year-old child called Sonny Boy (David Lee), who escapes artificiality so completely that a hypersensitive cinemaddict feels...
...plot consists of Father Murray's struggle to keep Son Murray from "throwing" the championship for the sake of an expert brunette (Actress Suzanne Caubaye) who gets her orders from a masterminded nightclub gangster (Actor Robert Gleckler of Broadway fame). Father Murray has the assistance of an Honest Home Girl (Actress Harriet MacGibbon) and a High-Minded Sportswriter...
...Vitaphone (Warner Brothers). It was undoubtedly put together in a hurry; but as an experiment, like the first hot-dog sandwich, it is a palpable hit. The story concerns a young man and a girl who left a small town to seek Manhattan fortune. The girl dances in a nightclub. The proprietor makes advances. The young man is forced into the bootlegging business, though he would rather be a barber. It ends, after several murders, with a philosophical detective advising the young couple to go back to the country. Members of the cast have voices which register well. The detective...
...Kate Evelyn Merrick, "The Queen of London Nightclub Keepers," who was sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Vexed were her sons-in-law, Baron de Clifford and the 13th Earl of Kinnoull...