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...rhythmic patter of a burro's feet, mariachis (street singers), gathered around café tables, tell the story...
Last week, Mildred was still rocking the customers with her Rockin' Chair. In the Manhattan basement called Café Society, she made the fans wait for what they had all come to hear. Not a pound under weight (at 190) in a shroudlike black gown, her swarthy features and shoe-button eyes gleaming in the spotlight, she teased them first with a couple of new ones - but in the familiar, sweetly sighing Bailey style. ("I couldn't sing big if I wanted to.") When they kept roaring for it, she finally gave them Rockin' Chair with...
...almost down and the quiet purple dusk of the lowlands was rising in the east when the Queen spoke to her people. Housewives fixing supper put down their pots and men in cafés forgot their drinks; bicyclists in the streets stopped to listen at loudspeakers. Queen Wilhelmina's voice was tired and choked with emotion...
Among some Parisian café thinkers, who seem to believe that Chicago is run by Al Capone and that New Yorkers live in nightclubs, McCoy has been honored as the peer of Hemingway and Faulkner. The trash he writes is closer to the literature of men's-room walls...
...Prentice-Hall; $5), a book out this week. Sabartés evidently thinks that every detail and every chit of paper involving the artist is of equal value; his Portrait is loaded with pointless details about Picasso's living arrangements, his day-to-day existence and his favorite cafés. But the dull stretches are offset by Picasso's remembered obiter dicta. Samples...