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...Guard. The rise of the TV era in Hollywood has placed the movie people, themselves long cast as parvenus, in the odd role of the social old guard. Social Arbiter Mike Romanoff, the town's leading restaurateur, sniffs at the "dirty shirt" school that he finds prevalent among TV performers as well as newcomers to films. Says he: "The TV actors can afford to eat here, but they haven't progressed beyond the drugstore counter. They think differently, behave differently, live differently. The dirty shirt is a form of snobbery, you know. We're snobs...
...would carry away Oscars from the award-giving show of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Any glamour that was left was promptly rubbed out by the split-second demands of television, which turned the parade of winners into a supermarket mob scene. "It was." concluded Hollywood Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, "perfectly dull...
Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, instead, the greatest mathematician of his time. His ideas and personality had a profound effect on today's scientific...
...Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Composer Cole Porter, Grandma Marlene Dietrich, Bernard Baruch, J. Edgar Hoover. Where did Landlord Cohn rank in this spectacular array? Said humble Tenant Soule: "He is always welcome. I smiled and joked with him. Why should an important Hollywood person think a little restaurateur wouldn't talk...
Married. Mickey ("The Toy Bulldog") Walker, 54, oldtime welterweight (1922-26) and middleweight (1926-31) world boxing champion turned artist and Manhattan restaurateur; and Martha Gallagher, 35; he for the seventh time, she for the second; in Elizabeth...