Word: patachou
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...Sophie Tucker and Patachou...
Train Stopper. Patachou (real name: Henriette Ragon Billon) never sang in public until five years ago, when she and her husband opened a small cafe next to the pastry shop. One night she joined a crowd of singing customers and they loved her. After that, she sang a little every night, walking from table to table, coaxing people to join in. One night Patachou saw a man cut off his friend's necktie for a joke. "I think this is most funny," she recalls. "I like the look of terreur on the man's face...
During the next two years she collected some famous four-in-hands-Farouk's, Errol Flynn's, Governor Dewey's, Aly Khan's. When Maurice Chevalier told her she must leave her little cafe for bigger things, she obeyed. Patachou likes big rooms and big crowds. Says she: "If they are a good audience, I have a good time. But if I am excited and they are not excited, then I feel like I am the only one in the room and there...
...With Patachou in the room, there is almost always...