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...yearly sales of $2,037,000. By end of 1936 Father Stouffer was dead, the boys were running the show. They invaded Manhattan; their technique worked like a charm. Last week Vernon, president & treasurer, 37, and Gordon, personnel head, 34, rolled out an income statement to turn the average restaurateur green. For fiscal 1940 (July 31) their twelve restaurants yielded $418,000 profits on $5,012,000 gross...
...Restaurateur George Rector, 61, whose fillet of sole a la Marguery was worshiped by Manhattan gourmets at the turn of the century, acted as a judge in a Boy Scout cooking contest, registered exquisite anticipation when handed the winning dish-a plate of fried flounder...
...This is very easy on the ear, but along with it spectators have to take the Swedish wit, El Brendel, and a story in which, for the sake of Gloria Jean, Singer Crosby abandons the carefree life of a structural steelworker to become a restaurateur. As practiced by Singer Crosby, the restaurant business turns out to be an excuse for a second helping of such old-timers as Female Impersonator Julian Eltinge, veteran Comediennes Trixie Friganza and Blanche Ring, who sings Rings on My Fingers, her song...
...indexes by which students of U. S. business measure its temperature are many & various, range from freight carloadings to horoscopes. Last week they got a new one. Flashy, white-haired, doughnut-dunking* Albert Andrew McVittie, 59, ex-showman, Denver restaurateur, president of the National Restaurant Association, had studied the pencil scribblings on restaurant tablecloths, found they were in creasing. McVittie conclusion: business is better. His reason: "When people write on tablecloths, they generally do so in terms of figures. . . . The general opinion is that deals are closed in business offices, but . . . nearly half of them are consummated ... in restaurants...
Depopolis (a restaurateur), and Horatio K. Boomer, who acts and sounds W. C. Fields in carnival pitch, are various voices of Radio Actor William Thompson...