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...Crepe Suzette was Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. Moved to the ecstasy of inspiration by the presence of gourmandizing royalty, 14-year-old Assistant Vaiter Henri Charpentier of Monte Carlo's Cafe de Paris did things to French pancakes that had never been done before, served the kingly dish in a blaze of spirits. Edward's princely palate was pleased; he asked Henri to name the concoction after a friend's little daughter who was lunching with him, sent him next day a jeweled ring, a panama hat, a cane. In the 40 years since then Henri has created...
...down the table came the cry of "Hurrah" as someone spied the steaming dish of,--(Lucille, what was it they had for a vegetable). Then came the dessert, pride of the Dining Hall Staff and so temptingly put forth that we suspect that Mr. Waistcoat had made a special attempt to spur our boys to victory. It was Harlequin ice cream, and all the boys knew what that meant. Such a combination of flavors, and all so tasty...
...crown. Happiness Ahead (Warner). When Warner Brothers announced last summer that they had discovered an ingenue who would be "one of the five biggest stars of the screen within a year," it was surprising to learn that their discovery was Josephine Hutchinson. A thin, pretty girl with red dish hair, sherry-colored eyes and a dimpled chin, Josephine Hutchinson had been exposed to the full view of Hollywood scouts for upwards of eight years as leading lady of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's 14th Street. If her abilities for cinema were so pronounced...
There is a job to get, certainly; there are the hours of social contacts that add the spice to an otherwise dull dish; but this...
Behold the stomach: crammed from every dish, The tomb of boiled and roast and flesh and fish, Where bile and wind, and phlegm and acid jar, And all the man is one intestine...