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...plains of Hungary was the arrival of the galloping lancers of King John Sobieski of Poland. Whoever won it, it was a great victory. Western Europe was saved for Christianity. The Turks never returned, but they left behind them things to enrich the world: coffee to start the first café in Vienna, the first lilac bushes in the west...
...Broadway (Broadway-Hollywood) is a feature-length production based on the frail supposition that the spectacle of a Broadway colyumist introducing pseudo-celebrities constitutes entertainment. It shows Colyumist Ed Sullivan of the New York Daily News chatting with patrons and performers at three Manhattan cafés, includes glimpses of Lupe Velez, Primo Camera, Ruth Etting, Ernst Lubitsch, et al. amiably dancing, talking, bowing. Best shot: Pugilist Maxie Rosenbloom looking bored...
...carefully manicured claws and a bald-spot on his narrow skull, they have seen him hunched scornfully in front of a grand piano, intoning his unique compositions with an air at once chipper, elegant and insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that...
...seekers. Press pictures appeared of huge crowds lined up for work before the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis. ¶In Manhattan the fashionable Waldorf-Astoria began to fix up a "tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League's Francis Scott McBride: "The iron hand of the brewers...
...John Shepard Jr. formally opened the George A. Dobyne swimming pool. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Pulitzer gave a golf tournament. Some one gave a party at which all the guests were costumed to represent theme songs. Mr. & Mrs. John North Willys arrived. The Henry Seligmans gave a party at the Café Marguery of the Bath & Tennis Club. Edward T. Stotesbury and Maria Jeritza attended. Professor Raymond T. Moley came to visit Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. Joseph E. Widener and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney went to the races at Hialeah. The A. Atwater Kents entertained at dinner. The Chester Dales...