Word: lucullan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swank. Manhattan's glamor spots are short on entertainment, long on drinking, atmosphere, names, the bill. Snooty, half filled with celebrities, half with celebrity-chasers, offering Lucullan food but not even the twang of a guitar, is Jack & Charlie's legendary "21." After midnight, debs, young Roosevelts, Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, lesser fry, haunt Sherman Billingsley's cool, decorative Stork Club. More on the Social Register side, less on the Who's Who, and both hard on the purse, are pugnacious John Perona's zebra-striped, rhumba-flavored El Morocco, the newer and elegant Fefe...
Famed "Little Anne Bullitt," who in Moscow kept a cat named Revolutzia while her father was Ambassador there, has now grown up into an almost young lady (see cut), ripe to apprehend the magnificent achievements of French civilization and appreciate the Lucullan dinners of her gourmet father in Paris. Anne was born in Paris...