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Broadway--$.30-.40-.35. $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old Mayfair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...
Broadway--$.30-.40-.35. $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old Mayfair; good place is one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...
Miles & miles from the night clubs of Mayfair, King George's youngest son last week rolled across the South African veldt in a special train, gravely inspecting sheep dips and apple orchards, smiling politely to cheering crowds. In his baggage was a present for the Union of South Africa that Prince George had bought out of his own pocket: a silver trowel once used by famed Boer Warrior Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger to lay the corner stone of the Provincial Government buildings in Pretoria. Prince George discovered the trowel in the silver collection of Lady Williams, whose...
...been in the doorkeeping business most of my life," Campbell continued in his broad Irish brogue. "I tried clerical work for a while, but I didn't have the brains. I've worked at a lot of the hotels in New York: the Ambassador, Pierre's, the Mayfair. But where I made the most money was at Rudy Vallee's Night Club. I could make $80 a week there tips you know. And my, the people who used to go there! I used to have to put them in taxis myself most of the time. Of course...
Lady Eleanor Smith, a woman not yet twenty-five years of age, is the daughter of the late Earl of Birkenhead. She is a woman of great beauty and is popular in English society. Her world is not limited to the narrow circles of sedate Mayfair. She has extensive knowledge of the circus, the theater, the world of sport, and of the great middle classes of England. She is quite capable of entering into sympathetic regard for the particular individuals she portrays, and she has an excellent knowledge of the milieus within which these individuals act. Her book...