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...only cause I'm taking up is woman suffrage. I mean woman suffrage in a broader scope than is allowed by law. I mean whether they should be allowed to sip cocktails at the bar in the Marguery, at Pierre's, at the Park Lane and the Waldorf-Astoria...
...evening last week, several hundred guests were dining beneath the serene gold and plum-colored Sert murals of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, secure in the knowledge that their slightest whims would be instantly accommodated by the precise and fluent machinery of the nation's best-known hotel. Fifteen minutes later something went wrong. The hors d'oeuvres ceased to arrive. Famed Oscar's dishes failed to appear. Wine bottles stopped popping. The Waldorf, that pillar of bourgeois good-living, had temporarily ceased to function. With a feeling akin to that felt in Moscow, March...
...Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will be one of 5,000 throughout the land to raise funds for the President's Warm Springs Foundation for infantile paralytics...
Married. Doris Warner, 21, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of cinema's three Warner Bros.; and Mervyn Leroy, 33, Warner director (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang); elaborately, in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Father Warner's gift was a sound film of the wedding...
Busy as hornets last week was an organization known as the National Committee for the Birthday Ball for the President. From its headquarters in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria the committee announced that at least 5,000 U. S. communities would celebrate President Roosevelt's birthday on Jan. 30 and help to raise a permanent endowment fund for his favorite charity, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. To Warm Springs went a most impressive birthday present -a vast crate containing a glittering pinnacle of frosted fruit cake, six feet high and weighing 344 Ib. It was the gift...