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Cafe-Society (Paramount). Within the last decade, a variety of influences, including Repeal, Depression, the servant problem and congenital hysteria, have caused one faction in Manhattan's insecure aristocracy of wealth to spend their evenings in public restaurants rather than their homes. As a group, this faction got itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

At a luncheon given in his honor by the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America and the Merchant Tailor Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week the season reached its limou-zenith: Cafe Society's favorite performer, Beatrice Lillie, headlined a revue, Set to Music, by Cafe Society's pet playwright, Noel Coward. Autograph fiends were in Heaven, pressed together as close as the cards in a sealed deck. A battery of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First-Night Fever | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

At a Manhattan night club in the basement of a onetime church, café-society playboys (including Peter Arno, Lucius Beebe, Jules Glaenzer) gave a coming-out party to end all coming-out parties. Debutante: Wilhelmina ("Tugboat Minnie") Frances Vandenbaard, professional model (under the name of Wilma Baard) and daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Great is the delight of that diligent ichthyologist. Dr. William Beebe, when his deep-sea dredgings bring to light a perfect specimen of a rare fish. Diligent Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, last week had a similar sensation. Out of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Gob and Suction | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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