Word: romanoffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Romanoff and Juliet, by Peter Ustinov, is a sort of nonmusical East-West Side Story-the lovers being kept apart by the cold war. Walter Slezak will bring them together. Nyack, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Miami (two weeks...
...spring of 1948, two formidable ladies met over a luncheon table at Romanoff's restaurant in Hollywood. "When she walked in," recalls one of the other, "every chin in the place dropped. Hasty telephone calls brought in a mob of patrons. Nobody moved until we left arm in arm two hours later." After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper...
...stars rewarded him with their patronage. John Huston took Evelyn Keyes to Romanoff's one night, and the dinner went off so well that Romanoff sent out for a ring and chartered a plane. Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...
Besides, the food was passing fair. The prince's snob appeal was pure, being unfettered by real connections. And Romanoff's became one of the best-known restaurants anywhere. The shadow prince became just another honest Boniface. A businessman. A tradesman. A merchant. A non-fraud! Even the glitter of the real tinsel had worn...
Empty Beanery. Romanoff naturally offers other reasons. Popular TV shows have often kept so many people at home, he claims, that "you could throw a bomb in here and injure no one but me and the waiters." Modern, unwashed actors prefer hamburger joints to glossy joints like Romanoff's. (And the washed, if in search of chic, pop off to Paris or Rome instead.) But mainly. Prince Mike complains of the Internal Revenue Service, whose new attitude toward expense accounts has already been reflected, he thinks, in empty tables at the royal beanery. "Democracy is synonymous with mediocrity...