Word: savoyism
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...crowd's mood was more festive than partisan. Piccadilly's streetwalkers were out in three times their usual force, and a cordon of policemen surrounded the boarded-over statue of Eros to ward off the drunks who always want to climb it on such occasions. At the Savoy, a gilded party of 2,000 (including Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Merle Oberon and Sharman Douglas) joined Press Lord Viscount Camrose of the Daily Telegraph to sip champagne and watch a private bulletin board...
Manhattan's furred & feathered café socialites turned out for an opening meal on the house when the Gayelord Hauser "Look Younger" Menu became a regular part of the Savoy-Plaza cuisine. Along with such unfamiliar entrées as yogurt and wild rice nut-burgers, they downed many a sample of the only cocktail recommended. "The grapefruit juice is for health," explained TV's Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper...
...these dixieland groups today," tiny Max Kaminsky complains in a small, high voice, "are a lot of bands that play it corny and just a few that make it swing right." Boston trumpeter Kaminsky opened Monday evening at Katherine Donahue's Savoy. His band swings, no doubt about it, but all is not as right as it could...
...that Kaminsky's group suffers by comparison. Muggsy Spanier's fine ensemble ended a long stay at the Savoy last weekend, and Spanier's is a difficult act to follow. But the Spanier band was good because its members play well together, with well-integrated styles. Kaminsky seems to be a victim of the New York Condon's-Nick's melting pot of cacophony--where musicians of totally different schools of dixieland drift together for too brief a time to achieve the cohesiveness of harmony that makes for a great combination...
While working at the Hotel Savoy in London, he met a young pilot, who convinced him to fly for Imperial Airways on its pioneering transcontinental flights. He piloted old De Hanvilland planes to such remote spots as Karachi, Bombay, Calcutta, Baghdad, and Demascus...