Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (Twentieth Century-Fox) introduces two new screen personalities: luscious, lissom Linda Darnell (her real name), 15, of Dallas, Texas, and fat, frenetic, fiftyish Elsa Maxwell, corkjester extraordinary to Manhattan's café society. In a complicated little story about life & love in a Manhattan residence hotel for women, untypical Miss Maxwell plays herself (explaining her presence in the unswank Sherrington as her substitute for a vacation in the mountains), popping out brisk remarks, decanting an occasional drop of the Maxwellian philosophy, which undoubtedly seems headier after 2 a. m. On cocktail parties...
Died. Charles Steele, 82, lawyer, unobtrusive partner (since 1900) in the banking firm J. P. Morgan & Co. ; after a long illness; in Westbury, L. I. A quiet philanthropist, he gave $500,000 to Manhattan's St. Thomas Church for its choir school...
...business at in-between stops, all-day outings for romancing youngsters, tourists bargain-shopping for local color. Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion bands from riverside bals musettes, whispery the riverside dingles with the billing & cooing of pic-necking couples. As Bear Mountain boats to Manhattan outers were the Seine fly boats to Parisians...
Dunkers in all-night coffee pots and diners, cabbies dozing on the late-trick hack lines, night watchmen, charwomen, belated motorists, bakers, lighthouse keepers, lobster-trick pressmen, the boys in the bars and all the other sun dodgers standing the great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with...
...studio perched high above Madison Avenue, Stan Shaw, with an engineer and an assistant, stands watch over two turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area, but some regulars click in from far-away Florida and Ohio. Once Walter Winchell, whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections...