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What she got, besides that: a chariot ride to the circus, behind four "Arabian stallions"; a ride on an elephant; lunch at the Colony; tea with Cinemactor Ray Milland at the Waldorf Towers; dinner at the Stork Club; champagne at El Morocco; a night at the Ritz Tower (she telephoned everybody she knew in New York to come over for drinks); backstage calls on Fredric March and Beatrice Lillie; an armful of roses, a $125,000 ruby necklace (for 24 hours), a $65 hat (for keeps), and "the works" in a beauty parlor...
Sherman Billingsley, suave, sleepy-eyed host of Manhattan's Stork Club, accepted congratulations from cafe society as the author of a 6,000-word history of nightclubs, to be printed in the next edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica-which is noticing nightclubs for the first time in 177 years of publication. Pocketing his $120 (the scholar's rate of 2? a word) Author Billingsley lost no time about getting in a professional plug: "Nightclubs are here to stay. Curfews and taxes can't kill them . . . even the Britannica has come to realize...
Special Delivery. In Arlington, Va., expectant mothers requiring the services of the Red Cross were instructed to telephone one Mrs. Willis Stork...
Celebrities at the Stork. One day her father's old friend, Quentin Reynolds, almost the only friend she had in New York then, took her to a 53rd Street bistro just coming into vogue, the Stork Club. There, while Reynolds waited for a friend, Anita haltingly sipped an orangeade. The people she met were all fond of Bud Counihan; they found it, now, remarkably easy to be fond of his girl Anita. In a matter of weeks her friends had increased from one to 201; in a matter of months, Bud's beautiful daughter was the toast...
From then on, Anita Counihan was to live almost exclusively among celebrities. Almost any night she might be found surrounded by one or all of her Stork Club gang: talking over his experiences in Spain with Ernest Hemingway or their experiences anywhere with Westbrook Pegler, Peter Arno, Damon Runyon, Steve Hannegan, John O'Hara; dancing at El Morocco with Dan Topping and Shipwreck Kelly; dashing out to the country to help Deems Taylor compose a new operetta. Between times there were play or ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky...