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...York's famed Ritz-Carlton Hotel was created to reward the rich for being rich. With its soft rugs, its gilded mirrors, its glittering chandeliers and the Roman grandeur of its outsized bathtubs, the Ritz breathed an atmosphere of continental elegance calculated to soothe the wrought-up millionaire. Vials of perfume sweetened its elevators. Its food was superb (Chef M. Diat's greatest achievement: the invention of Vichyssoise in 1912), and two waiters stood by, day & night, on every floor to take care of the hunger of its guests...
...Writer Carlton E. (for Errol) Morse, 49, sat in a Hollywood studio one day last week, blinking back a sentimental rush of tears. He was listening to Actor J. Anthony Smythe, the Father Barbour of One Man's Family (weekdays 7:45 p.m., NBC), thank the "great American listening audience for its wonderful and sincere loyalty" to the program over the past 19 years...
...Dozen Typewriters. When not in his 17-room Hollywood house, Carlton Morse can usually be found in his cubbyhole in an unused theater, where he has worn out a dozen typewriters producing the 20 million words that have gone into his shows. Stacked about him are the bound volumes of his scripts: One Man's Family (14,704,000 words); I Love a Mystery (3,400,000 words); the Woman in My House (102,000 words); His Honor, the Barber (182,000 words). Bulking large on the shelf, and even larger in Morse's imagination...
Fort Worth Publisher Amon Giles Carter, undisputed king of Texas boosters, checked into Manhattan's old Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the last time before the building is torn down to make way for a 25-story office building. As a farewell gesture, he decided that a party was in order, called for his two favorite waiters, who had served him on his trips to Manhattan for the past 30 years, took them to dinner at the Stork Club, topped off the evening with a nightclub show...
...opening night of the Technicolored The Tales of Hoffmann in London's Carlton Theater, Dancing Star Robert Help-mann was presented to 83-year-old Queen Mary, who said graciously, "I think the film is very beautiful, and I particularly liked your voice." Replied Helpmann with a bow, "I wish it were my own," humbly explained to Her Majesty that the singing voices had been dubbed...