Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...
Songstress Mindy Carson has been melting the steel ears off the song-weary help for the last four weeks. Wrote nightclub critics: "Sensational," "ear-caressing," "the most exciting gal singer we've heard in a long time." Next week the Coba moves Mindy to the top of its bill. She is the youngest singer (22) who has ever headlined the big-time Copa...
...There, except for one abortive attempt.to reenter the U.S. by way of Cuba, he lived according to his idea of a model citizen. In one of Rome's fashionable quarters, he shared a penthouse with his blonde, toothsome, 28-year-old mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky Luciano, whose vast suite took up half of a floor...
Friends say Lara, though he is now married to a 19-year-old chorus girl named Clara Martínez, still worships María. Last week, while he was playing and singing at Mexico City's Capri nightclub, Diego and Frida Rivera entered with María Félix, were ushered to a ringside table. Lara stopped the song he was singing, switched to Palabras de Mujer...
...heavy share of chairmanships, launchings and dedications. By day, Margaret will have plenty of time to entertain girl friends at gossip fests in her rooms at the palace. Of an evening, she may go with a few carefully chosen girls and young men to the theater and a nightclub. The one thing she must not do is act like a commoner...