Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farley-Riley, The two characters who were chiefly responsible for earmarking the U. S. winter of 1936 with this insane melody were named Eddy Farley, fleshy master-of-ceremonies, and Mike Riley, emaciated trombone player, at a small dive called the Onyx Club in Manhattan's iniquitous West 52nd Street. Last week they claimed to be $1,000 richer than they were a month ago when the song was first published, with royalties just beginning to come in. They expected to make a trip to Hollywood to do a series of cinema shorts. Meanwhile their names were last week...
Right is Reader Sutherland. Catholic-born Manuel Quezon retracted Masonry on his 52nd birthday, 1930, aboard the S. S. Empress of Japan, in the presence of Most Rev. Michael J. O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila. Two years later he demitted (i.e. resigned) from his lodge. -Ed. Man of the Year...
Most famed Manhattan speakeasy during Prohibition, nearly as successful a restaurant since Repeal is Jack & Charlie's 21 West 52nd St. Last week Hearstpaper readers were titillated, shocked or disgusted by a six-instalment tale of misconduct between Proprietor Jack Kriendler and Mrs. Dorothy ("Dolly") Gaddess, wife of Socialite-Banker Norris Barrymore Gaddess of Greenwich, Conn. Somehow Hearst's Evening Journal had got hold of the transcript of Husband Gaddess' divorce proceedings, which were heard by a horrified referee in private chambers. It included 443 dictaphone records of telephone conversations between Jack & Mrs. Gaddess. The referee considered...
...brought him $4 a week from a Philadelphia chandelier factory. Not long after that he was doing sketches for the old New York World. Fifty-one times he dragged his heavy portfolio of pictures in vain to swank Harper's Weekly to get a job; on the 52nd visit he succeeded with a winter scene of opera crowds streaming out of the Metropolitan which he had painted over night...
Town Crier Woollcott lives in the same apartment house as the Ralph Pulitzers and Alice Duer Miller at the foot of East 52nd Street, overlooking the East River. Dorothy Parker named the place "Wit's End." He lives in Sybaritic ease, attended by a youthful Negro servant named Junior. When he writes at home, he customarily dictates to a male secretary. Breakfast or cocktail guests are likely to include the Ben Hechts, Charles MacArthurs, Neysa McMein, Harpo Marx, Noel Coward, Herbert Bayard Swope. With Editor Harold Ross he maintains a perpetual Potash & Perlmutter squabble, which last week came...