Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stiff-necked Back Bay society learned that Sally Clark, 18, younger sister of Mrs John Aspinwall Roosevelt, had walked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton, posed for pictures, then announced that she would this week make her debut not as a socialite but as a professional songstress on the Ritz's roof garden. Salary: $150 the first week, $200 the second, $250 thereafter. "I am not thinking of Hollywood," said she, last week, "I imagine that from time to time I shall see all my friends. But I am most interested in singing to the public...
...surrounded by doctors, lawyers, bankers and armed guards. In Paris, Father Franklyn Laws Hutton, ever anxious about the happiness of his "dear little girl," talked things over with her second titled husband. It was after such a conference last week that Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, waylaid by reporters in the Ritz Hotel, hissed through his teeth: "I detest reporters...
...Barbara's pile grew under her broker father's careful management. At the age of 21 she could write her check for $45,000,000. In 1930, in the teeth of Depression I, her fond father arranged a coming out party costing $60,000. Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton hotel was decorated with birch trees cut down and then covered with branches of fresh green leaves shipped to New York from California. When the debris was cleared away, every news editor in the country knew that Barbara was destined for the front page...
...Fiedler is invariably good, and although there are special programs on special nights, each performance runs the gamut from classic to modern. Harvard football songs are occasional encores, and dance music is presented now and again, although no attempt is made to compete with Mr. Goodman, now on the Ritz Roof...
...shysters, Packingtown countesses, Blue Coast playboys, a bank glamor-girl, a society medium. But although every nation has its representative, the fighting is not on nationalistic lines. "No rich man," says Jules Bertillon, "is a patriot, no rich man a friend. They have all only got one fatherland-the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend-the mistress they're promising to divorce their wife for." Some of the spiders...