Word: sardis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Halfway Back. The sarcasm is more friendly than biting, for Kingman takes a naïve delight in U.S. ways. He keeps the radio in his studio going constantly ("It softens my mind and helps me paint. I know all about Luncheon at Sardi's and Heigh-ho, Silver!"), and all through dinner he watches television programs with his wife and two children. "To Chinese people," he says, "football is very queer, but I like to go and see the games. Also, I play bridge once a week...
While most of the covers drawn by your staff artists are masterpieces of a sort ... in the case of Oscar Hammerstein it might have been interesting to present him as he appears on the walls of Sardi's in one of Card's caricatures. After all, being done by Card for Sardi's is the epitome of theatrical fame on Broadway to most show people...
...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...