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...with three other post-debs (including her sister Nancy), Ceezee appeared in a cabaret show at the Ritz roof garden as part of an act called "Boston's American Beauties." Her theatrical ambitions were doubtless enhanced by her heavy beau of that time, Movie Actor Victor Mature, who was stationed in Boston in the Coast Guard. In 1944, when she was 24, Lee Shubert gave her a job as show girl in the Broadway revival of the Ziegfeld Follies. One night at a party she met Darryl Zanuck, who arranged a screen test on the basis of which 20th...
...every night except Saturday, when midnight rings down the curtain. Local libertarians are currently engaged in a full-scale attack on the Blue Laws, but in the meantime, just drink fast. The plush scenes are the Merry-Go-Round Room in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, the Ritz Bar in the Ritz Carlton, the Keyboard Lounge in the Somerset Hotel and the Eliot Lounge in the Eliot Hotel...
...Ritz. Between the wars, the Cavendish became the favorite haunt of London's gilded youth. Rosa smiled benignly on their amours, and could always provide a trusted young guardsman or undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...
...food and demented dialogue were never the same after Rosa finally made it through the gates at the age of 85, going on 90. But little else changed. Not long ago, Successor Jeffrey coldly advised an American tourist to try "a nice little place round the corner called the Ritz." When he had left, she confided: "He is a Mr. Tennessee Williams, and I understand he has written a rather nasty play...
...years ago, an 8-lb. dumbbell used to prop a window screen slipped from a maid's frantic grasp and plummeted eight floors from the Ritz Tower Hotel to hit and fatally injure a vacationing Detroit financier walking up Manhattan's 57th Street toward Park Avenue with his wife. Ending a $500,000 suit against the apartment's owners. TV Star Arlene Francis and her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, the widow of Alvin Rodecker settled for $175,000 from the Gabels and $10,000 from the Ritz Tower, both insured for such public liability...