Front matter (continued 5)

Warning: Most night clubs have phone booths in the ladies' room. That's where they call the guy they meet after they brush you off.

Weaklings who tend to become absent-minded after the third drink are advised to place their hat check in the upper left breast pocket. One blotto bird in a narrow night club foyer, yelling for his coat and insisting he never got a check, can hold up 300. When the checker assists the customer she is instructed to begin looking for the ducat in that pocket, working down and back therefrom.

The reverse table-hopper is as bad a pest as the original. Don't demand the acquaintances at the next table join your party. Maybe they want to be alone!

Don't stare!

Don't try to get too hot with a girl in public, or you'll wind up with the cold shoulder. If you want to hold hands, do it under the table. That's what long tablecloths are for. Don't try to hog the dance-floor, unless you want to be a pig shot. While an entertainer is working, don't turn around and tell your friends what a great pal of yours he or she is—loud enough to drown him or her out.

Dolls who understandably want to show off their fur coats in cabarets should think of a better method than to drape them over the back of the chair and onto the floor, where they become traffic hazards for passing waiters and guests. Dames who do this deserve skunk, not mink.

Dames too ample in certain regions should not wear tight skirts for dancing. (Watch the next one and see what we mean.)

When a lady stops to chat at a table where men are present, she should ask the men to keep their chairs or she should sit down, so the guys won't be kept standing while she gabbles. If she does neither, she's no lady, and no man need then bother.

When a lunkhead and his twist spat in a night club, it's etiquette for him to dash after her and slip her cab fare.

Dolls who must cross their pins at ringside tables should be sure they have nice ones.

When the emcee announces that the chorines will go through the room to collect for the Red Cross, don't suddenly decide to phone.

If you have to go—or if you're coming back—while an entertainer is working, don't cross the dance-floor in front of the artist. Wait until the number is over; or, if you can, circumnavigate—flank the performer.

While dancing, don't wave to a friend at a table. You may put someone's eye out.... If your shoelace opens, don't stop on the dance-floor to tie it—move off.

If you must take somebody's phone number, write it at your table, not while on the floor. (Don't take it at all if her brute is bigger than you.)

Do not show off on dance-floors. Even if you are as hep as Fred Astaire, the other customers do not want to see you. Besides, the bouncer is not sympathetic to amateur talent.

The almost morbid desire of young women to look in mirrors brings on one of the most horrendous of all night club gaucheries ... when the sweet young things duck from their escorts every half-hour and remain away for time without limit while the escorts squirm alone. The condition is doubly disastrous when two or more young women are in the party, because whenever one goes, all go, and they stay forever while they discuss the men, who know it.

If the poetry in your soul forces you to beat time to singing or music, use your fingers, not a tablespoon.

It's atrocious taste for two females to dance together. Good spots won't permit it, though some of the claptrap caravansaries catering to tourists or sewing-circle society parties stand for it until 10.

If your escort asks you to dance, don't turn him down. If you're tired, don't make dates. But if he doesn't want to dance, DON'T BE A PEST AND BEG.

When you see a friend with a squab in a cabaret, don't suggest that you and your pigeon move to his table and make it a foursome. He may have IMPORTANT business to discuss.

If somebody else's dish (and we mean dish, not doll) looks particularly attractive, don't sample it unless you're first asked to. If you'd like to try it, order from the waiter!

Do not eat garlic or onions unless your escort also does. (Or unless you want to keep the wolf from your door.)

We've already inveighed against the bore who table-hops and asks to dance with your dame. Now the might of our wrath is directed toward the gal who makes things worse for her man by encouraging the intruder. When a stranger comes to your table, say "No," immediately. Don't prolong the agony by turning to your escort and asking if you should dance with the drunk or dope.

33. CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE TO NEW YORK

AMUSEMENT PARKS: Back-breaking sky-rides, pink lemonade, cotton candy and hot dogs are available at Coney Island's famed Steeplechase (BMT subway); Palisades Park in Fort Lee, N.J. Bring your own gal or pick one up.

ASTROLOGERS AND FORTUNE TELLERS: Predicting futures is against the law, but horoscope readings are not. (Consult Classified phone directory for "Astrologers.") Many night clubs employ "readers" who "analyze your palm, handwriting or tea leaves." Service is gratis, but you're expected to shell at least a buck.

Inside Stuff: Society babes have their palms read at the Golden Earring—54th and Madison.

Midnight Manners: When your gal is having her fortune told by the night club palmist, don't listen in. The seer will say a tall, dark man is coming into her life. And you're probably short, fat and gray.

Wisdom of a White Way Wolf: Slip the palmist a fin before she starts. A short, fat and gray man will plunge into the gal's life.

BABY SITTERS: Phone SU 7-6779. If she's over 15 call us.

BALLET: Personally, it's way above us. We don't like muscular calves. But the longhairs say we have some of the best ballet in the world. Consult daily papers.

BARBER SHOPS, LATE: If you get an unexpected night call, and you haven't a razor blade, you're out of luck. There aren't any all-night barber shops any more, since two gorillas were killed in one. Most of them close at 8; in Grand Central and Penn Terminals, at 9. The following shops are open until midnight: Victoria, West 51st Street; Taft Hotel; Spinrad's, 50th and Broadway; Dawn Patrol, Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street; Claridge Hotel. (All cabaret men's room attendants will supply safety razors and blades.) Barber shops are closed Sundays, except in private clubs.

BOATING: Row boats are available in all the city parks in summer, at two bits an hour (peanuts for yourself and the ducks, extra). Swell way to woo a doll; she can't walk home.

BRIDGE GAMES FOUND: Are you looking for congenial opponents? Call Mildred Lovejoy, CO 59290. Or try the bridge clubs in many hotels. Though patrons are charged for playing, the law says they aren't gambling houses. Why? We wouldn't know. For lessons, Banfield, PL 5-0980, or Cummings, CO 5-9515.

BURLESQUE: Who brought that up?

BUS RIDES: Hurry, hurry, hurry, if you still want New York's cheapest thrill, riding with your gal on top of a Fifth Avenue bus. The company is gradually retiring all the double deckers. No open-top buses are left, anyway.

CHAPERON SERVICE (For girls or unaccompanied wives): If pretty, call us.

CLEANERS, ONE DAY: Yep, we still have 'em here. Your hotel valet will take care of it; otherwise Misch, on West 47th Street.

Midnight Manners: Don't smear your lipstick on a man's lapel while dancing. Cleaning rouge and powder stains is expensive. And his wife might get fussy.

CLOTHES REWOVEN: If the doll accidentally burns your suit instead of you, while protecting herself with her cigarette from your mad advances, consult the Classified phone directory.

Wisdom of a White Way Wolf: You should wait until she finishes the cigarette.

COMFORT STATIONS AND REST ROOMS: Saloonkeepers aren't hospitable to men's room customers and get downright sore at ladies' room patrons. But if you gotta, all subway stations have free comfort stations, usually filthy. Often degenerates and thugs lurk there. Many hotels maintain pay (5 or 10 cents) stations, others have the tip-as-you-go system. Minimum, 25 cents, if you use a towel. Rest rooms in railroad stations are open all night. (Fee, 5 and 10 cents. Also baths, 25 cents and up.) Free comfort stations, operated by the city at 47th Street and Broadway, 60th and Central Park West, 42nd Street behind the library, and in all parks.

CONCERTS: You'd be surprised how many young chippies patronize Carnegie Hall since Stokowski took Gloria Vanderbilt away from Pat di Cicco. Our chief concert and recital halls are Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Steinway Hall, and Times Hall, with the City Center Theatre often going in for same.

CONFIDENTIAL DETECTIVES: Bolan (ex-Commissioner of Police) Agency, Empire State Building, LA 4-5100.

DANCING: Smart guys find too much dancing interferes with romancing. It saps the gal's energy and their own; sobers her up if she's had a few; makes her miss the drinks she'd consume if she were sitting at the table. But, if you'd rather dance than progress, New York's the place for it. Almost all its 1,500 cabarets present dance music; there are dozens of dance halls where you can go; and the Y's, churches and other social organizations throw hops on the slightest provocation. But, unlike smaller towns, there's neither cocktail nor lunch dancing here. (Revolting thought—dancing at lunch time.)

But dinner and supper dancing: How can you miss it?

If you haven't a partner, any dance hall will supply you one at a small fee per dance. Or you can easily pick one up, as unescorted ladies are permitted in all the halls, usually at a reduced fee to encourage attendance.

If you can't dance, you will find hundreds of studios in the Classified directory, guaranteeing to teach you in from five to ten lessons.

You will find some of these studios (especially a number in old brownstone houses on the West Side) sell more than dancing instructions. It's up to you to feel your way.

If you're a swing addict, consult the newspaper ads for the places where that kind of band is playing, usually at a hotel grill.

Club bands play mostly rumbas and sambas, with a few fox trots and hardly any waltzes except at the dreamy hour, after 3 A.M.

New Yorkers are not jitterbugs. Most clubs hustle jive addicts off the floor.

TERP TIPS: You dames with wide circumferences should not rumba. If you must, please don't quake below the equator.

Don't shift your right hand up and down her spine while dancing, like a chiropractor or indecisive sax player.... Don't be a floor hog.... Don't grab the girl around the waist, hiking her dress up by inches. (Why not? That's why we sit at ringsides.)

Don't ask the band leader to play a conga unless you want to be spotted as a square-head.

When the band plays a rumba or samba, if you can't do it, remain at your table instead of trying to dance a fox trot to the complicated rhythm. New York is the only city where a large part of the dance program consists of rumbas and sambas. (In the East Side clubs they form the major part.)

Never chew gum when dancing—but if you must, do it in time to the music!

Most clubs feature two bands with continuous music, whereas small-town cabarets operate with one, which usually plays a set of three tunes, then 10-minute intermissions. So it is suggested that when you ask a gal for a dance in a New York club, you release her from your clinging embrace after a maximum of 15 minutes. Though the music goes on forever, the endurance doesn't.

DRUGSTORES, ALL NIGHT: Lexington and 49th; 66th and Columbus; Seventh and 52nd Street; Seventh and 51st; Broadway and 50th; 47th and Broadway; Seventh and 50th; Broadway and 44th.

EMERGENCY INFO: Birth Control Ass'n, 220 East 12th Street, AL 4-4437; Birth Control Bureau for Marriage Consultation, 55 East 86th Street, AT 9-4250; Birth Control Center, IWO, 80 Fifth Avenue, AL 4-2321; Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, WA 9-6200; Planned Parenthood Federation, WI 2-8600.

ERRANDS: To pick up railroad tickets, send flowers, call for your laundry or get your lunch, phone Rapid, EL 5-6100; Mercury, LE 2-0543; Airline, VA 6-5145; Western Union, WO 2-7111.

ESCHATOLOGIST: Oh, yes. We have one of those, too. Whatever it is. Mrs. M.E. Nase, Lorraine 2-8722.

ESCORTS: At Your Service, MU 9-4378—Hostesses, too.

FRIENDS—TO MEET NEW ONES: Personally we're misanthropes, but if you're lonely and haven't the guts to brave strangers, phone ABC, WI 7-2430; Social, TR 3-2013, or Clara Lane, LU 2-2617.

GIRDLES—FIRST AID: If your favorite girdle busts while you're away from home, call Jean Kaufman, 54 West 56th Street. But if you're the kind who needs a girdle, why didn't you stay home?

GAMBLING: All forms, except on-track parimutuel, are illegal, but you will have little trouble finding bookmakers and policy-slip sellers. There are no casinos or gambling houses as such in the city limits. As soon as one gets started, the cops crack down. There are no exceptions. Yet you can find card games going in some political clubs and so-called social and bridge clubs. Traveling crap games are common around Broadway and in Harlem, and there are steerers to take you to them.

Slot machines are vigorously banned, but of late the authorities have been winking at a new type of electrical gambling machine, similar to pinball, which pays off on poker hands. These are being set up in some of the best midtown locations and in other parts of town, and though they pay off in "merchandise," which is as illegal as cash, they seem to have plenty of protection way up. Some buy back the "merchandise" for currency. Frank Costello makes them.

HORSE RACING: You can lose your money pleasantly at Belmont, Aqueduct, Empire and Jamaica, all within the city limits or environs. Betting is by parimutuel, with bookmaking and off-track betting forbidden. But how are you going to put a fly cop in every cigar store, saloon, newstand, elevator, lobby and bellboy's cap?

LOTTERIES AND NUMBERS: It's agin the law, as your soda jerk or cigar clerk tells you, as he sells you.

MAID SERVICE: in your apartment, by day, week or month. Also housemen, wall and window washers, baby sitters. Bennett, SP 7-7820; Maid-to-Order, TR 3-3185; Taylor-Maid, TE 8-7171.

MANICURISTS: All barber shops and hotels. Some want their nails filed, others just like to sit and talk to the cute ones. But why is it any different here than in your own home town, where lonesome bucks always go first for the finger mechanics?

MASSEURS: Some people go to masseurs to be massaged and some masseurs massage, but some use the title to cover an older going-over. Sorry, you'll have to find them yourself. We don't ache enough for a massage.

MIDWIFES: If you're in that condition, don't come to New York. If you do come, get a doctor. But if you're old-fashioned and demand a midwife, you'll find some in the Classified phone directory.

PALMISTS: They're against the law, but Diana, LO 5-4530 is a "hand analyst."

PARTIES PLANNED: We like our parties impromptu, you know, like when the blonde drops in unexpectedly and says: "Let's get stinko." But if you like to entertain and want to do it big, call Service Delicatessen, BU 8-7384; Daniel, PL 9-5941; for children's parties, Arnold. Amusements and entertainment provided, Harrington, CI 6-5979.

RENT, FOR: You can rent practically anything in New York, including a wife, but not an apartment. If you are interested in hiring any of the following, consult the Classified phone directory: Airplanes, bikes, cameras, cars, diamonds, evening clothes, furs, private railroad cars, radios, typewriters and yachts. (No open listing for wives.)

SHOOTING GALLERIES: What's the matter, bud, didn't you have enough of it in the Army? If not, try Broadway and 48th Street, Broadway and 51st Street, or Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 47th; 42nd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, or any amusement park.

SHOPPING SERVICES: Will buy anything for you from a layette to a tombstone, except a broad or bride. At Your Service, MU 9-4370; Lili Personal Service, MU 2-5266; Finders, MU 2-8196.

SHOW GALS: Consult newspaper for current musical attractions. Or visit these night clubs: Latin Quarter, Copacabana, Leon & Eddie's, Hotel New Yorker (on ice skates). Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall and Gae Foster girls at the Roxy.

SIGHT-SEEING: The rubberneck buses are back. You'll find steerers at every Times Square corner.

SKY VIEWS: Surest way to wow a wench is to take her to the 102nd floor observatory of Empire State Building on a clear, starlit night. The thrilling view of the city below, twinkling lights that look like diamonds on a giant diadem, will bring something into her eyes. If you need help, there's an excellent cocktail bar in the observatory, highest on earth. Other observatories, RCA, Chrysler and Woolworth Buildings.

SWIMMING: Why pay a premium for a front row ticket at a musical when you can see more at any beach? New York's popular public beaches are not recommended, as the waters are unsanitary, crowded and dirty. Those with dough belong to clubs in Long Island or Jersey, where water is clean and girls ditto. Smart ones, without much money, patronize pools.

TELEGRAPH OFFICE—ALL NIGHT: If you have to wire home for money after an evening: Western Union, at 40th and Broadway, Penn Station and Grand Central, always open. Or phone WO 2-7111.

WAKE UP SERVICE: If you can't get up after that big night with the blonde, phone MU 7-6500. But who's going to wake you first?

WALL STREET AND STOCK MARKET: Talking of gambling, a few pages back, how about it? But even if you're not a gambler, an ogle at the greatest money mart is a daytime kick. But the Stock and Curb Exchanges are closed to visitors. You can look at Trinity Church, though.

WET NURSES: Who thought of that one? Phone New York Academy of Medicine, AT 9-4700, and ask for "Information."

WORRIER, PROFESSIONAL: You may not have had a care in the world when you picked up this volume. But now you rate a nervous breakdown. Under the heading "Psychologists" in the Classified directory, you will find guys willing to do your worrying—for a fee, of course. They advise on sex and the lack of it. If you get any good info, please advise the authors. (For inclusion in the next edition, of course.)

PART FOUR THE APPENDIX (Confidential!)

A. BACKSTAGE PHONE NUMBERS

THEATRES

Back Stage No.

Adelphi CI 5-9298

Alvin CO 5-8709

Belasco JU 6-9570

Bijou CI 5-9731

Booth CH 4-9677

Broadhurst CH 4-9145

Carnegie Hall CI 7-1350

Center Theatre CI 5-9590

Century CO 5-8615

Coronet CI 5-9442

Empire LO 5-7901

Ethel Barrymore CO 5-9172

48th Street CO 5-9451

46th Street CI 5-9455

Fulton CI 5-9847

Henry Miller LO 5-8315

Hudson JU 6-9261

Imperial CI 5-9374

Lyceum JU 6-9854

Majestic CI 5-9353

Mansfield CI 5-9505

Mark Hellinger CO 5-9064

Martin Beck CI 5-9770

Maxine Elliott LO 5-8583

Metropolitan Opera PE 6-7200

Morosco CI 5-9833

Music Box Theatre CI 5-9850

National LO 5-8489

New York City Center CO 5-8933

Plymouth CI 5-9474

St. James LO 5-8143

Shubert CI 6-9500

Winter Garden CI 6-9500

CABARETS

Copacabana[2] PL 8-1060 Latin Quarter CI 5-9685

(Theatres and night clubs not listed have no backstage phones.)

B. TICKET STUBS

Variations from the normal in theatre seating. See page 265. (NOTE: All houses except where noted eliminate Row I-eye.)

ETHEL BARRYMORE: Row AA precedes Row A.

BELASCO: Row AA precedes Row A.

BIJOU: Row AA precedes Row A.

BOOTH: Row AA precedes Row A.

BROADWAY: Row I is included. Beginning with Row P sequence follows: P, PP, Q, QQ, R, RR, S, SS, T, TT, U.

CARNEGIE HALL: Following Row Z, numbers begin with AA, BB, CC, etc.

CENTURY: Row AA precedes Row A.

CORT: Rows AA and BB precede Row A.

EMPIRE: Row AA precedes Row A.

48TH ST.: Row AA precedes Row A.

FULTON: Row AA precedes Row A.

JOHN GOLDEN: Rows AA, BB and CC precede Row A.

IMPERIAL: Row I is included.

LYCEUM: Row AA precedes Row A.

MAJESTIC: Rows AA and BB precede Row A. I is included.

MANSFIELD: Row AA precedes Row A.

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: Rows AA and BB precede Row A.

MOROSCO: Row AA precedes Row A.

PLAYHOUSE: Row AA precedes Row A.

PLYMOUTH: Row AA precedes Row A.

ROYALE: Row BB precedes Row A. I is included.

ST. JAMES: Row AA precedes Row A.

WINTER GARDEN: Rows AA and BB precede Row A on sides only.

Seats numbered 1, 3, 5, 7, etc., and 2, 4, 6, 8, etc., are on the sides of the house, numbers being counted from the center to the wall.

Seats numbered 101, 102, 103, etc., are in the center section of the theatre.

These are the exceptions:

BILTMORE: No center section.

BOOTH: Seats in all three sections are numbered consecutively, 1, 2, 3, etc., being distinguished by "Section 1," for left side of the house, "Section 2," for center, and "Section 3," for right.

CARNEGIE HALL: House has four sections. Seats 1 to 17 are center left, 2 to 18 center right, higher odd numbers, extreme left, and higher even numbers, extreme right.

CORT: Seats in all three sections numbered consecutively, 1, 2, 3, etc., being distinguished by "Right," "Center," and "Left."

JOHN GOLDEN: Two sections only and distinguished by "Right" and "Left."

NEW YORK CITY CENTER: Four sections, seats 1, 3, 5, etc., being extreme left; 2, 4, 6, etc., extreme right; 101, 103, etc., center left; and 102, 104, etc., center right.

C. HEADWAITERS' NAMES

ARMANDO'S: Alfred & Philip ASTOR HUNTING ROOM: Walter Lindner BLAIR HOUSE: Christo BLUE ANGEL: Arturo COLONY: Gene (prop.) COPACABANA: Joe Lopez EL BORACCHO: Attilio EL MOROCCO: Frank Carino HAVANA-MADRID: Carlos LATIN QUARTER: Gigi LEON & EDDIE'S: Louis PLAZA PERSIAN ROOM: Fred Barbero RIVIERA: Bonardi RUBAN BLEU: Tony Mele (prop.) ST. REGIS MAISONETTE: August STORK: Andrew 21: Philip & Pierre WALDORF: Albert

D. MOVIE COMPANY TALENT SCOUTS

Columbia Pictures, Max Arnow, 729 Seventh Avenue. Goldwyn, Samuel, Carolyn Stagg, 1270 Avenue of the Americas. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Al Altman, 1540 Broadway. Paramount, Boris Kaplan, 1501 Broadway. RKO-Radio, Arthur Willi, 1270 Avenue of the Americas. 20th Century-Fox, Joe Pincus, 444 West 56th Street. Universal, Jessica Landau, 1250 Avenue of the Americas. Warner Bros., Harry Mayer, 321 West 44th Street.

E. GLOSSARY OF HARLEMISMS

A HUMMER: Something better than the ordinary. ALLIGATOR: A jitterbug. ARMSTRONGS: High register trumpet notes. (Named after Louis Armstrong.) BARBECUE: Beautiful gal. BATTLE: Homely gal. BEAT or BEAT UP: Exceedingly tired. BEAT THE CHOPS: To talk. BIBLE: The truth. BLACK AND TAN: 1. Varying shades of colored folk. 2. Night club catering to blacks and whites. BLIP: Classy. BLOW YOUR TOP: Overcome. BOOGIE-WOOGIE: Form of harmony with accentuated bass beat. BREE: A gal. BUST YOUR CONK: To apply yourself diligently. CANARY: A gal singer. CAT: A swing musician. CHICK: A gal. CHIME: An hour. CHIRP: A gal singer. COLLAR: Obtain or understand. CUBBY: Room, home. CUPS: Sleep. CUT RATE: A cheap guy. DICTY: Classy, smart. DIG: Meet or understand. DIME NOTE: Ten dollar bill. DOMI: Domicile. DOSS: Sleep. DRAPE: Clothes. DUCHESS: Gal. DUKE: Hand. EVIL: Nasty temper. FEWS AND TWO: Very little money. FINE DINNER: Pretty gal. FRAME: The body. FREEBY: Free. FROMPY: Homely. FRONT: Suit of clothes. FRY: Getting hair straightened. GAMMIN: Flirting. GASSER: Terrific. GATE: A man. GIMME SOME SKIN: Shake hands. GLIMS: The eyes. GOT YOUR GLASSES ON: Being snooty. GREASE: To eat. GROOVY: Fine. HARD: Fine. HEP CAT: A guy in the know. HINCTY: Snooty. HIP: Sophisticated. HYPE: Trying to sell a bill of goods. ICKY: A dumb guy. IGG: To ignore. IN THE GROOVE: Perfect. JACK: Common name for all men. JELLY: Something free. KICK: Pocket. KILL ME: Send me. KILLER-DILLER: A thrill. KNOCK: Give. KOPASETIC: The tops. LATCH ON: Get wise to. LEAD SHEET: Top coat. LEFT RAISE: Left side. LILY WHITES: Bed sheets. LOCKED UP: Acquiring exclusive possession of something. MAIN ON THE HITCH: Husband. MAIN QUEEN: Girl friend. MASH ME: Give me. MELLOW: Fine. MELTED OUT: Broke. MESS: Something very good. METER: 25 cents. MOO JUICE: Milk. MURDER: Something terrific. NOD: Sleep. OFAY: A white person. OFF THE COBB: Corny. OUT OF THE WORLD: Perfect. PASSING: Living as a white person. PEOLA: Light Negro, almost white. PIGEON: Young girl. POUNDERS: Policemen. QUEEN: Beautiful girl. READY: Perfect. RIGHTEOUS: Terrific. RUG CUTTER: A good dancer. SAD: Terrible. SALTY: Angry. SEND: Arousing emotions. SHARP: Smart, hep, tricky. SKY PIECE: Hat. SLAVE: To work. SLIDE YOUR JIB: Voluble talk. SNATCHER: A police detective. SOLID: Swell. SQUARE: Opposite of hep. STACHE: To hide something. THE MAN: The law. TICKS: Minutes. TIMBER: Toothpicks. TOO MUCH: A term of praise. TRILLY: To take one's leave. TRUCK: To go somewhere. TWISTER: Key. V-8: An independent gal. WHIPPED UP: Tired. WREN: A female.

F. GUSTATORY GUIDE

DINE WITHOUT ORCHESTRAL DIN:

Café Impériale, 322 E. 44th. Dinty Moore's, 216 W. 46th (Famous for steaks, corned beef & cabbage). Toots Shor's, 51 W. 51st. Lindy's, B'way & 50th. Sardi's, 234 W. 44th. Twenty One, 21 W. 52nd (If you can get in). Stork Club Cub Room, 3 E. 53rd (Ditto). Colony, Madison & 61st (Ditto). Cavanagh's, 258 W. 23rd. Reuben's, 6 E. 58th (Where the late crowd goes). Barberry Room, 19 E. 52nd. Al Schacht's, 104 E. 52nd (Owned by the baseball clown). Gallagher's, 228 W. 52nd. Artists & Writers, 213 W. 40th (Grub Street). Blair House, 30 W. 56th. Q Club, 302 E. 58th. Lee Chumley's, 86 Bedford (Village bohemian newspaper hangout). Billy the Oysterman, 10 W. 47th; 7 E. 20th. Charles, 452 Sixth Ave. (Expensive).

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AT DINNER, NO DANCING:

Little Club, 70 E. 55th. Luchow's, 110 E. 14th. El Boraccho, 51 E. 55th. El Morocco Champagne Room, 154 E. 54th. Penthouse, 30 W. 59th. Armando's, 54 E. 55th.

DINING AROUND THE WORLD:

Armenian: Golden Horn, 31 W. 51st. Austrian: Mayerling, 133 E. 54th. Hapsburg House, 313 E. 55th. Gay Vienna, 1611 Second Ave. Grinzing, 323 E. 79th. Balkan: The Balkan, 294 Eighth Ave. Belgian: Brussels, 26 E. 63rd (Beaucoup expensive). Chinese: Lum Fong, 150 W. 52nd. House of Chan, 800 Seventh Ave. (52nd). Yank Sing, 133 W. 51st (Show folk hangout). Canton Village, 163 W. 49th. Ding Ho, 103 W. 49th. Hoy Yuen, 117 W. 48th. Tung Sai, Mulberry St. (Shavey Lee, Mayor of Chinatown, prop.). China Lane, Mott St. Chinese Rathskeller, Mott St. Ho Ho, Seventh Ave. & 51st. Cuban: Cuban Casino, 45th & Eighth Ave. (Floor show). Czechoslovak: Praha, 1358 First Ave. Dutch: Holland House Taverne, 10 Rockefeller Pl. Egyptian: Port Said, 257 W. 29th. English: Keen's, 72 W. 36th. Drury Lane, 47 E. 49th. French: Lafayette, University Pl. & 9th. Roberto's, 22 E. 46th. Voisin, 375 Park Ave. Marguery, 270 Park Ave. Chambord, Third Ave. & 50th. Larue, 45 E. 58th (Dancing). Charles, 452 Sixth Ave. Coq Rouge, 65 E. 56th (Dancing). Janet of France, 237 W. 52nd (Entertainment). Café Arnold, Columbus Circle. Café Louis XIV, 15 W. 49th. Caviar, 18 E. 49th. Chateaubriand, 148 E. 56th. Divan Parisien, 17 E. 45th. La Cava, 128 W. 52nd. La Salle du Bois, 36 E. 60th. Theodore's, 4 E. 56th. Bal Tabarin, 225 W. 46th (Floor show). Greek: Acropolis, 312 W. 58th. Gypsy: Gypsy Tea Kettle, 50th & Seventh Ave. (Tea leaves read). Romany Marie, 49 Grove (Village). Golden Earring, 54th & Madison Ave. Hawaiian: Hawaiian Room, Lexington Hotel (48th) (With hula girls). Hindu: East India Curry Shop, 52 E. 55th. India Rajah, 235 W. 48th. Famous India Curry Rice, 34 W. 114th. India Prince, W. 47th. Hungarian: Tokay, 1591 Second Ave. Zimmerman's Hungaria, 163 W. 46th (Floor show). Irish: Hogan's, 235 W. 52nd. Italian: Villanova, 106 W. 46th. Cerutti's, 643 Madison Ave. Buscaglia, 33 W. 46th. Leone's, 239 W. 48th. Little Venice, 126 W. 13th. Eddie's Aurora, 144 W. 4th (Ingrid Bergman ate here). Enrico & Paglieri, 64 W. 11th. Japanese: Miyako, 20 W. 56th. Suyehiro, 35 E. 29th. Mexican: Charro El Mexican, 4 Charles (Village). El Nilo, 108 W. 44th. Romanian: Old Romania, Allen St. (Lower East Side. Floor show). Russian: Casino Russe, 157 W. 56th (Entertainment). Russian Tea Room, 150 W. 57th (Hangout for musical long hairs). Russian Kretchma, 244 E. 14th (Floor show). Russian Bear, 645 Lexington (Entertainment). Scandinavian: Iceland, Broadway & 53rd (Floor show). Wivel, 254 W. 54th (Floor show). Stockholm, 27 W. 51st. Kungsholm, 142 E. 55th. Castleholm, 244 W. 57th. Singhalese: Ceylon India Inn, 148 W. 49th. South Seas: Singapore, Broadway & 51st (Also Chinese). Spanish: Havana Madrid, Broadway & 51st (Floor show). Las Americas, 687 Lexington. El Caserio, 145 E. 55th. El Chico, Sheridan Sq. (Floor show). Swiss: Swiss Pavilion, 38 E. 50th. La Petite Suisse, 6 W. 52nd. Syrian: Mecca, 6 E. 30th. Yiddish: Moskowitz & Lupowitz, 40 Second Ave. Lou Siegel, 209 W. 38th. Paramount, 138 W. 43rd. Gluckstern, 209 W. 48th.

SUMMER ONLY:

Al fresco: St. Moritz Hotel, Central Park So. Fifth Avenue Hotel, Fifth & 9th. Chatham Walk, Vanderbilt & 48th. Rockefeller Center Plaza. Central Park Zoo Terrace. Ambassador Garden. Roof Gardens: Waldorf Starlight Roof. Astor. Pennsylvania. Biltmore. City Road Houses: Bill Miller's Riviera (across George Washington Bridge). Tavern-on-the-Green, Central Park. Environs: Ray Dillman's Casino-in-the-Park, Jersey City (Beautiful and swank). Casa Seville, Franklin Sq., L.I. (Fabulous).

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