Word: cravath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucienne Boyer was neither amazed by the splendor of Rockefeller Center nor awed by her first-night audience there which included Rockefellers, Astors, Blisses, Harrimans. Gibsons, Fields, Charles Hayden, Mrs. Dodge Sloane, Paul Drennan Cravath. Places cost $15 apiece,* the best champagne (Moët et Chandon Imperial Crown, 1921) $10 per bottle. Lucienne Boyer was unconcerned. In Paris ever since "Parlez-moi d'Amour" her songs have sold champagne...
...Coat, a Glove (by William Speyer, adapted by William A. Drake; Crosby Gaige and D. K. Weiskopf, producers). "Tell Mr. Cravath to be there by one," says Lawyer Robert Mitchell (A. E. Matthews) to his secretary in this play. This cool second-act instruction does not mean that famed Paul D. Cravath is about to be seen in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It merely shows that Mr. Mitchell has a 16-cylinder legal mind, with big names in his address book. For such a bland, patrician barrister, he is in a most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan...
...meal with the senior partner of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood would doubtless have made a much better third act than the one offered in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It is a gloomy and exceed ingly unreal courtroom scene in which A. E. Matthews, the suavest English actor on the U. S. stage, bites his nails politely while he refutes a rumbling district attorney. It ends with Lawyer Mitchell telling his wife to blow her nose. She indicates that she loves him still by borrowing his handkerchief...
...Elected a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Chairman Paul D. Cravath promptly put Director Sarnoff on the executive committee to ponder the Met's problems along with Otto Kahn, Myron Charles Taylor and Mrs. August Belmont...
...dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, 14, whom London calls the second Pavlova. She was born in a train in Siberia while her parents were fleeing Russia. Blonde Irina Baronova is a few days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter of the late Tsar's banker, and was a pupil of Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well...