Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the massing of local talent which proved so successful at last summer's similar affair, Entertainment Chairman Hugh Hadley's committee has arranged for Miss Pickens, currently appearing at the Copley Plaza's Oval Room, o add the extra touch of glamour appropriate for the Naval ROTC's send-off to its numerous members about to be commissioned...
Biggest deal so far this season came when J. Myer Schine acquired the swanky, 300-room Roney Plaza Hotel, 18 years old, from Papal Marquis George MacDonald. The price: $1,601,000. Terms: cash. The deal was interesting: when the famed Roney Plaza opened in 1926, J. Myer Schine was strictly nobody. In 1918 he opened his first movie theater modestly in Gloversville, N.Y. It was an old roller-skating rink which he converted with a borrowed $1,500. Last week Schine, now owner of a chain of some 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland, lolled...
Three dinners are announced for Wednesday 19, January. The largest will be that given for the Roman Catholic chaplains at the Copley Plaza Hotel under the auspices of the Military Ordinary of New York. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Military Vicar, and Bishops John O'Hara, C. S. C., and William T. McCall C. SS. R., Military Delegates, will be present. The contingent of chaplains will be led by Chaplain William D. Clark, Commandant of the School...
Jimmie formed a band for "gigs" (one-night stands) which was booked through James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...
Okay, Young Man. One Sunday last spring while Moss Hart was having a drink in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, a young Air Forces lieutenant breezed over to his table, introduced himself, said: "Would you like to do a play about the Air Forces?" "Certainly," answered Hart, as the readiest way of getting rid of him. But ten days later Hart was in Washington, face to face with General H. H. Arnold. Hart stated his terms: "I must be boss." Said Arnold: "Okay, young...