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Meanwhile decorators and Technicolorists indulge in rich reproductions of Delmonico's restaurant, the Hotel Brevoort, Barney's, a beer garden. There is also much dancing, and singing of such deathless ditties as Rosie, Waiting at the Church, Two Little Girls in Blue, plus the new catchy Goin' to the County Fair and the sure-fire My Heart Tells Me (which Miss Grable, enjoying her first bath on the screen, sings from a tall wooden bathtub...
...first official gathering of the Club after its foundation was at a dinner given at Delmonico's in February, 1866. 145 Harvard men in and immediately about New York "including Brooklyn," were asked to attend the affair, generally referred to as the "Lane Dinner," which was a decided success...
...number of years the progress of the club was slow. The next annual dinner was held in 1867 and then again in 1869 at Delmonico's which gradually became the regular rendez-vous for meetings and dinners. After four or five lean years the club slowly began to gather that momentum which was to result in unprecedented success. By 1871 the membership had jumped to 139 and by 1879 over 250 Harvard men had joined the organization...
...Indiana farm at 13 . . . saloon brawls and street fights ... the first time he knocked out a man with his famed "corkscrew punch" (glorified left hook) and decided to call himself Kid McCoy . . . the night in 1896 when he stopped Tommy Ryan, world's welterweight champion . . . champagne suppers at Delmonico's . . . fights he threw and the chicanery he got away with . . . the carpet tacks he dumped into the ring to agonize a barefoot opponent in South Africa . . . early days of the century when U. S. sportswriters hailed him as the Real McCoy to distinguish him from spurious Kid McCoys...
They formed it, at Delmonico's, as a supper club. Its early days were bumpy, but it grew & grew, to become the most ancient, most active, most ardent of U. S. stage societies. Today it has 1,100 members, over 80% of them theatre people, has a smoke-filled, untidy, hospitable clubhouse just off Times Square...