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...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...
Next year he turned up in Hollywood with a screen story to sell about Ellis Island. It was a flop, but since then Mike has been getting $50 a week from Twentieth Century-Fox (he says $150), sometimes working as an extra for other studios (Cafe Society, Fools for Scandal). He lives thriftily with his ikons in a modest flat in Beverly Hills, drives the right people to the right places in his two-year-old Cadillac, owes only a minor tailor bill, which is disappearing by installments...
...Corporation of America, donated an orchestra. Mike himself showed up with $25 in his pocket which he pyramided to $125 at the gaming tables before the party broke up at 6 a. m. Missing from the guest list were a great many familiar Hollywood partygoers, including fat Elsa Maxwell, cafe society's coast-to-coast whoops-a-daisy. Explained the host: "No phonies...
...eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes in for bughouse antics, wisecracks, catcalls, pranks and late hours; The Hickory House, where the "cats" do some of their best caterwauling, put on special Sunday matinees. Chief Greenwich Village branch for swing is the bright-basemented bohemian Cafe Society, "the right place for the wrong people...
Resettled at Zurich, Joyce taught at the Berlitz school, as he had at Trieste. Mrs. Joyce remembers poverty and small apartments, "long on mice, short on kitchen utensils." But Joyce was happy, worked hard on Ulysses, enjoyed drinking white wine with English Painter Frank Budgen at the Cafe Pfauen. Lenin used to frequent the same cafe, but the literary and the proletarian revolutionists never...