She stayed with him until 1946 when she went solo at the city's Club Zanzibar as an opening act for the Mills Brothers.

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He has got a point: other cities have their moments, but only Marrakesh puts on a show that makes tap-dancing mice in a castle seem like an opening act.

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It works by heating the moisture in a person's skin to the point where it feels, according to Kelley Hughes, an official at the directorate who volunteered to act as a guinea pig, like opening a hot oven.

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