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...TMWCTD is now so much the possession of Monty Woolley that even its authors' right to a share in it seems questionable. Possessor of the most Edwardian visage of his era, bon vivant, trust-funder, darling of Manhattan's cafe society, onetime Yale English instructor, 53-year-old Actor Woolley plays Sheridan Whiteside with such vast authority and competence that it is difficult to imagine anyone else attempting it. As one of his intimates has remarked: "At last the old party has got the role he's been rehearsing for all his life...
More highly specialized than either of these layers was Army Intelligence. It operated through a shoal of spies disguised as petty merchants (like Major Hara of Vigan), cafe proprietors, medicine-store operators. It was financed by the Japanese Tourist Bureau...
Errol Flynn, Prince David Mdivani, "Prince Mike" Romanoff were in the crowded cast of another cafe scuffle in Hollywood. Occasion: a party for Gloria Vanderbilt and Pasquale di Cicco the night before their wedding (see p. 43). What happened: shoving, wrestling, crawling on the floor. Among the crawlers: Lupe Velez. Flynn dragged Mdivani and Romanoff out of a scrimmage. Flynn's next role: Fighter James J. Corbett. He denied any connection...
...first and challenged afterwards. Kamaainas (long-settled whites) had to entertain themselves with card games and gossip at home in dim-lit, tightly-sealed rooms. No liquor was to be had, and candy sales went up with a rush. The hotspots-from the Royal Hawaiian to the plebeian Venice Cafe were shut tight. Overhead the air patrols constantly thundered...
...cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs the gamut of shoddy ruses, noble renunciations, comic duels, gloomy drunks, motherly madams, then smugly pats itself on the back for its unhappy ending...