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Spain's civil war drove Lazaro to Paris. He stayed at the Ritz, filled his suite there with treasures. Victorious Franco liked Royalist Lazaro no better than had the Republicans, used his Madrid house as a police headquarters. Lazaro spent World War II in Manhattan. Art dealers got to know the trim little man with the beard of a Biblical patriarch. He was still voraciously snapping up old masters...
...After a look around the real Statler, he asked: "Where do you put your ash barrels?" At week's end, he headed back for the New Hampshire hills after agreeing to change the slogan of his inn. New one, unless he heard from another set of lawyers: "The Ritz of the Sticks...
...name was Ekaterina and she was a real princess. Her husband, of course, was a real prince; his name was Nicolas. They lived at the Ritz in Paris with Ekaterina's father, an old expatriate king, and they had nothing to do but rock around all night in Montmartre nightclubs and drink buckets of champagne, because the old king still got about $3,000,000 a year from the old country. When Ekaterina and Nicolas took a shine to 20-year-old Barnaby Surrey, he thought it too wonderful to be true...
Segregation. In Milwaukee, Manager Arnold Brumm of the Ritz theater announced that on Monday evenings, to be known henceforth as "Dignity Nights," people who insist on eating peanuts, popcorn or candy during the show will be asked to sit in a special section...
Embroidery at the Ritz. Jenkin stayed, and he also sold his much-embroidered orchestrations to such other big-name outfits as Whiteman, Goodman, Lopez and Kostelanetz. He also managed to do some composing of his own, turned up a wartime hit San Fernando Valley. Hi biggest single venture to date ("comparing it to all the other things is like stacking a symphony alongside a pack of pop tunes") is Manhattan Tower, a frequently maudlin, occasionally sprightly four-section tribute to the big city, which he wrote in 1945 after a three-week champagne party in a suite of Manhattan...