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...Choicest: Miami's razzle-dazzle Roney Plaza and, 40 miles up the Florida coast, the ultra-plush Boca Raton Club. Other Schine properties: Miami's McAllister, Albany's Ten Eyck, Atlantic City's Ritz-Carlton, the Breakwater Court at Kennebunkport, Me., the Northampton Hotel and Wiggins Old Tavern at Northampton, Mass...
...just been ordered to the small toilet in the rear of the store, when two unsuspecting customers walked in. They were A. D. Voina, Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
...Blue Skies" marks Fred Astaire's dancing exit from the screen. The performance of Astaire's brilliant extremities causes even the easeful singing of a portly Der Bingle to pale by comparison. Two of Astaire's routines are especially good--a top-hat-and-cane number, "Putting On The Ritz," and a technicolorful costume piece, "Heat Wave." While not quite up to the standard of his "Limehouse Blues" performance in "Ziegfield Follies," they still feature Mr. Astaire, and that, fans, will suffice...
Taking personal command of a doubled force, assistant manager Ralph E. Owen was reconstructing yesterday West's movements during his last week here, in investigations that led the detective from the Pot of Gold, a Scollay Square Tavern, to the Ritz Carleton Hotel. He reported numerous identifications, but stressed that many of them were unreliable...
...routine called Puttin' on the Ritz, one dazzling scene in Blue Skies where trick photography fills the screen with a full chorus of fast-stepping Astaires, will not dim his reputation as a hell of a dancer. The hardest of four numbers he designed for the picture, it took him five weeks of what he calls "backbreaking physical work...