Word: savoy
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...Avenue, subscribed to a social register, gave their daughters debut parties. Theatrical folk like Duke Ellington, sporting characters like Harry Wills, live farther north in Sugar Hill. But even Harlem's unique assets are flagrantly exploited by whites. Jews own the successful colored bands, the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ball Room, all Harlem's saloons, its brothels and its $50,000,000 a year policy game business. Jews also run Harlem's markets and are its principal landlords...
...legend that Nelson Eddy learned operatic arias from listening to phonograph records is only partly true. His first teacher, David Scull Bispham, schooled him for one year before he made his first stage appearance at a Philadelphia benefit show in 1922. He sang for the Savoy Opera Company, Philadelphia's Civic Opera, made his New York debut in Wozzeck in 1931. In the next two years Baritone Eddy's reputation as a concert singer steadily increased. When in 1931 he gave a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium to an audience trained to appreciate manner and appearance...
Entries for what he whimsically called "a new Blue Riband of the World's Soup Tureen" were called for in London last week by elegant Managing Director George Reeves-Smith of swank Claridges, the Berkeley and the Savoy. His hostels, Mr. Reeves-Smith announced, will award a Silver Jubilee Commemoration Cup and Medals for the three best recipes for vegetable soups, submitted by cooks the world over...
...arrival the French Delegation made for the Savoy Hotel, as French diplomats in London always do, deeming its food the best in the city. That night Premier Flandin and M. Laval were obliged, however, to eat amid the stuffy splendor of Londonderry House because the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry have what amounts to a permanent social option on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and any celebrity guests of His Majesty's Government...
...Hitler!" So proud of these agreements were the Frenchmen that M. Laval asked French reporters up to his suite at the Savoy and let them interview him extempore before a microphone, their questions and his replies going out by radio to all France-a novelty unprecedented...