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Abovestairs in his elegant Manhattan saloon, the Stork Club, ex-bootlegger Sherman Billingsley moves with exquisite aplomb. He is the Ward McAllister of café society. He dispenses a magnum of champagne to a favorite here, a fleeting, boyish smile to an attractive décolletage there. And he gives mad, mad gifts to the charmed inner circle of his customers...
...Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club on a gin mill other than...
...attached to Stoopnagle (a name he "just happened to dream up") that he uses it nowadays for everything except signing checks. According to his friend, Fred Allen, Stoopnagle was born "in a small, prefabricated cabin, which he helped his father to send for," and was delivered, not by the stork, but "by a man from the Audubon Society, personally...
...other designers must realize in the near future that they have been designing masquerade fashions for the smallest part of our population, the idle rich, who step from home to limousine to Stork Club, etc. If they want to look as if they were going to a Civil War anniversary party, that may be all right, but for the vast majority, including professionals, white-collarites and other moneygrubbers, these padded hips and four-yards-around-the-base balloon skirts will not fit into tiny apartment kitchens where the coffee and toast are rustled up each morning before the mad dash...
...ended the creative impasse between Scripters Ludlow Mumni and Maurice Cassard. Mumm was a solemn, devout Manhattan liberal who was driven to picket lines by a chauffeur. Cassard was a rumpled, realistic Frenchman, who admitted to an impulse to vomit into the hats of "Stork Club Communists." They were working together on the script of Moses Fable's preposterous musical, Will You Marry Me?-and getting nowhere. One day, driving in the San Fernando Valley, Cassard ran over and hospitalized Dirty Eddie. Cassard had found his ideal teammate...