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...smile that creeps out from under an almost constant frown. He walks slowly, with gangling dignity, like a freshman playing a Roman emperor. In a business where hysteria is honorable and neuroticism normal, he seems completely untemperamental. Baffled by normalcy as heathen are baffled by saintliness, show people from Sardi's to Giro's see him in an unearthly glow. Says Razzmatazzman Billy Rose: "What do I think about him? That's like asking me what do I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and strawberry sundaes." Says his old friend, Librettist Otto Harbach...
...memorial awards for Director Antoinette Perry (Harvey, Kiss the Boys Goodbye), who died last year. Among the recipients: Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer and Fredric March, for their Broadway performances this season; Mr. & Mrs. Ira Katzenberg (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939) for their durability as first-nighters; Restaurateur Vincent Sardi Sr., "for providing a . . . comfort station for theater folk. . . ." The men got gold money clips, the women Tiffany compacts with "little automatic windshield wipers on the mirrors...
...Manhattan, red-haired Renee Carroll, "the best-known hat-check girl in America," celebrated 20 years of profitable (about $200 a week) tip-taking at famed Sardi's Restaurant by tipping the customers. Her tip to each: 25?. Total cost: $50. The most astonished customer: English actor John Gielgud, who recoiled and cried: "Is this the custom here...
...Balding, sharp-nosed Vincent Sardi, Manhattan restaurateur, donated the interest on his War Bonds as it accrued, made other cash gifts; his total was close...
Every morning but Sunday at 7:30 some 400 women and a sprinkling of men crowd into Sardi's Hollywood restaurant. Some are local folks; others are from all over the Pacific Coast. Many are just off the train from Keokuk and points East. For their early-worminess they catch breakfast on the house, and two and a half hours of ribbing from the man who owns the show: fat, greying, double-chinned Tom Breneman, ex-vaudevillian...