Word: romanoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EARLY last year Michael Romanoff, who was building a new restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif., found himself in need of more funds to finish the job. With his usual aplomb, Mr. Romanoff cabled his old friend Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, then vacationing in Honolulu, and asked if he might borrow $25,000. The money arrived the next morning, accompanied by a note which read: "I'm always pleased to serve my King...
...tribute to Mike Romanoff that some of his friends have now elevated him to the rank of king, and that anyone is willing to lend him anything like $25,000. Twenty years ago, the New Yorker published a five-part Profile on him because he then had the dubious honor of being the most fabulous and incredible impostor alive, with the added distinction of having just been deported to France for allegedly defrauding some tourists. But even as far back as 1932, the facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent...
...time ago. Many people have forgotten, if they ever knew, what Mike's earlier career was like. And his friends no longer care. He is now the successful proprietor and chief stockholder in one of the most famous restaurants in the U.S. It is called, with aristocratic simplicity, Romanoff's, and for any person of consequence in Hollywood not to eat there regularly would be as unthinkable as it would be for Mike, now one of the town's first citizens, to be seen having lunch at a Beverly Hills drive...
...Problem (Fri. 12:30 p.m., NBC). How to Get a Man, with Cartoonist Al Capp, Marriage Counselor Gladys Romanoff, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Moderator Ben Grauer...
...build his new restaurant, Mike is raising $200,000 from some of the same friends who started him in business. Apparently they share his conviction that the same old crowd will still flock to the new Romanoff's. Says Mike: "I'm very good for a lot of people. They feel they are better than I, and people have a desire to feel they are better than someone else. Resentment? I accept it as I do the weather...