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...Hollywood. In recent months, the travelers' tales from Italy have unsettled many an expensive lunch at Chasen's and Romanoff's with visions that might have been flashbacks to the balmy days when Hollywood was in its sinfancy. Movie pro ducers, they said, were as common as cats in the Forum, and just about as noisy. Stars were demanding-and getting-as much as $6,400 a day. As many as three pictures were being shot at once with the same cast. Directors were arrogantly demanding 800 horses for a single scene. Drinking orgies, studio spies...
...Bacall (known as "Baby") and their two children in a $160,000 whitewashed brick mansion in Los Angeles' exclusive Holmby Hills, keeps two Jaguar automobiles (a Mark VII for Baby, an XK 120 for himself), three blooded boxer dogs, and a $55,000 ocean-going racing yacht. Mike Romanoff, the famed phony prince, wise man and restaurateur who is a sometime arbiter of Hollywood society, allows him to appear for meals without a necktie. He is president and principal stockholder of a motion-picture producing company of his own, Santana Pictures, and at times, as in Knock...
...Restaurateur Mike Romanoff shrugged off rumors that his gold-plated hash house was folding up, by informing Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart that he was declaring a 5% stockholder's dividend for 1953. Stockholder Bogart smiled as Romanoff announced Bogie's share-$50-then soured as Romanoff's waiter brought the lunch check...
...statement released jointly by Richard S. Rosenbloom '54 of WHRB, and Aida Romanoff '54 of WRRB, the stations said that the agreement will provide for cooperative production and training efforts, but it was emphasized that the agreement in no way will curtail the stations' independent broadcasting operations...
...Restaurateur Mike Romanoff ships his silk and pongee shirts air express to Sulka's in Manhattan for proper laundering...