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Died. Alexandre Gastaud, 63, chef and director of kitchens of .the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; of heart disease; in Manhattan. From the ship's galley, to a Bordeaux Inn, to the great kitchen school of Escoffier in Monte Carlo's Grand Hotel, he rose to officiate at London's Savoy and Carlton Hotels, Paris' Ritz and for royalty. Best known Gastaud dish on the Waldorf menu: "The Black Pot," a highly seasoned bean stew...
Editor &; Publisher, chief trade organ for the Fourth Estate, prepared the way last week for the two most important Press gatherings of the year: the Associated Press convention in the tropical roof-garden of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and the following three-day sessions of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association 15 floors below in the grey & red Waldorf ballroom. Keynote was a message from Harry Chandler, A. N. P. A. president, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, unable to attend the conventions because of illness. Wrote Publisher Chandler...
More than a little reminiscent of the using of that grand old hostelry, the Waldorf-Astoria, a flock of giddy girls and boys are celebrating their last evening in Hotel Continental. It's tragic to see old couples come back to spend the last night in the rooms where they honeymooned, but Miss Shannon dispels such somber thoughts. Enticing a man of mystery into the room by a feint of suicide, Peggy falls dearly in love with the young embezzler, who has just returned from five years in the big house. Even though her duty to the gang...
...early rounds, 16 ping-pong tables were set up in the Waldorf ball room, with eight feet of free space behind each. Most of the contestants wore leather-soled shoes because rubber ones gripped the carpet and made it slide. They wore blue shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm...
...President Buck introduced the twelve Tin Pan Alleymen. Then the Alleymen took turns at the piano in the centre to play one of their best known songs while the eleven other Alleymen and an orchestra joined in. The dressy audience in the new Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom could not contain itself. It managed to listen quietly to Percy Wenrich play "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet" and to Raymond Hubbell's "Poor Butterfly," Arthur Schwartz's "Dancing in the Dark." But when Gus Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang...