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...Manhattan café that calls itself the Royal Chicken Roost offered Singer Margaret Truman a six-week engagement, with options, at $10,000 a week. The management's extra persuasion: "We would even change our name...
Smokeaters. In Sikeston, Mo., firemen enthusiastically trotted to the Palace Café, put out the fire among the T-bone steaks, ate them...
Abovestairs in his elegant Manhattan saloon, the Stork Club, ex-bootlegger Sherman Billingsley moves with exquisite aplomb. He is the Ward McAllister of café society. He dispenses a magnum of champagne to a favorite here, a fleeting, boyish smile to an attractive décolletage there. And he gives mad, mad gifts to the charmed inner circle of his customers...
Cracked Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker, whose social world, café society, is a cut below the Social Register's: "The joke of the whole thing . . . is that the Social Register has no more right to the vestige of authority it has assumed than our Chinese laundryman...
Died. George Rector, 69, last of the restaurateur Rectors of Manhattan's lobster-&-champagne era; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Apple-cheeked, white-haired George carried on when father Charles died in 1914, but bowed out when Prohibition closed his last café in 1923; thereafter he nourished the Rector legend and himself by diligent publicity work, lecturing and writing, wound up as food consultant for a Chicago meat packer...