The Clubs With Big Floor Shows

Stripper Ann Corio was headlining at Lou Walters' cavernous Latin Quarter at Broadway and 48th according to an ad in The Sunday Mirror. The club bragged that it had "New York's most star studded show." Appearing with her were the tap dancing act the 3 Slate Brothers;stand-up comedian Professor Backwards, whose shtick was his ability to say words backwards; scantily clad ballroom dancers Corinne & Tito; the Barry Sisters, who harmonized in Yiddish; singer Don Saxon; the 4 Moroccans, a tumbling act, and "glorious girls." The shows were at 8 and 12. Walters was Barbara Walters' father. Corio had been a headliner at Minsky's burlesque before La Guardia shut down the city's burlesque houses. She appeared in several B-movies in the 1940s and was a popular wartime pinup.

Jane Froman "at the peak of her career!“ and Jan Murray,"Most Talked-About Young Comedian of the Day!“ were appearing nightly at 8, 12 and 2 in the Copa's spring revue For dinner at 8 the Copa advertised a luxurious full course table d'hote dinner for $2.75, which was also served at the Copa Bar where there was no cabaret tax and no minimum. Monte Proser's Copacabana was at 10 E. 60th. Proser was a frontman for the mob. Froman, who had been seriously injured in a plane crash during a USO tour, had special rigging to allow her to move through the nightclub.

Bill "Bojangles"Robinson and boogie-woogie pianist Maurice Rocco were headlining a revue with a cast of 90 and special added attraction, the Mills Brothers, at Café Zanzibar, Broadway at 49th. "2 Dollars buy this great show, plus an evening of dancing, plus a delicious full-course dinner from 6:00 to 9:30 PM" read the Sunday News ad. Three shows nightly 8,12 and 3. Never a cover charge.

Moonstruck/Magical /Mischievous/Masterful Milton Berle , future TV superstar, was the main attraction of the “spectacular Mardi Gras Revue” staged by master showman John Murray Anderson at Nicky Blair’s Carnival at the Hotel Capitol, 8^th and 51st. Shows were at 8 and 12, and Saturday at 8, 10 and 12.