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Along about 1:30, the waiter slipped Betty the tab. It came to roughly $2,500. Betty wrote a check, and the party boisterously headed for fresh triumphs at the noisier Copacabana. Betty was having a wonderful time, even though the bottom of her dress was hanging in strips where people had trodden on it. But it was obviously getting too tiring for ladies like her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Faulkner, is 95 and does not drink. Leaning on her cane and her daughter, mother was taken home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Manhattan Hoedown | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Slipper. Betty rejoined her guests at the Copacabana. There, the fun bubbled over. Young Talbot whipped off a calfskin loafer, poured champagne in it for Betty to drink. Flashbulbs popped. Betty roared with glee. But Mr. Phyfe was distressed beyond words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Manhattan Hoedown | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Fewer nightclubs were open, and some were working hard to stay open. The last two nights that Comic George Jessel played the Copacabana, the place threw away its minimum charge. The Latin Quarter advertised "a complete evening's entertainment for $5." Growled the headwaiter at the Latin Quarter: "The goose is here but she ain't layin' any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: No More Cream Cheese | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Last week, Carol summoned friends to his Copacabana suite (in which the Windsors had once stayed). He talked with them nervously, then he led them into the bedroom. Magda wore a white satin bed-jacket. She was dying, the doctors said. In the presence of the six witnesses, ex-King Carol married Magda Lupescu.* She assumed the title of Princess Elena of Rumania, the same name that Carol's bitter, blonde wife had once borne. Reporters said that the ex-King cried during the ceremony, but this was later denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: At Long Last | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Copacabana (United Artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Midsummer Box Office | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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