Word: nightclubbing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...give up his orchestra ("Italians were too depressed to enjoy cheerful dance music"), eked out a living by trading on the black market. But since then Bruno, who changed his name from Baldini to Quirinetta after making his first big hit in Rome's Quirinetta nightclub, has become roughly as popular as ravioli...
...baton-waver (in fact, he usually leads from the drums), Bruno gets deep into the act, taking his place in the conga line, occasionally even cutting in on couples dancing past. Gurgled one fat Florentine matron after a round with the master in the Posso di Beatrice, a cellar nightclub in a 13th Century palace: "This Bruno makes me feel like a five-year...
...Angeles jazz fans, eager for more of the blast and blare of Memphis Blues and Black and Blue, peered through the haze of a nightclub called Tiffany's one night last week at a sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts...
...netting Rose about $3,500 a week. Another reason was "an old show-off like me doesn't like to leave the stage with that big an audience in the house." But the tough little showman, who has been sandwiching his writing in between running his nightclub and theater, finally learned what every good columnist knows: that turning out a column three times a week is close to a full-time job. Concluded Rose: "And now, as the sun sinks in the West and the nurse shoves a thermometer in my face, I reluctantly say farewell to the lovely...
There are two leading guys. One, Nathan Detroit (Sam Levene), manages floating crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...