1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

masculinity after dark. It would take a real expert or at least an amateur of New York drinking habits to tell the hour of day from the nature of the drinks being passed across the bar by Cookie and his assistants. There are enough Martinis at midnight and a suf– ficient flow of champagne at midday to addle the wits of the un– initiate. As has been suggested above, the midday clientele of the Stork is considerably different from that say of such downtown resorts of masculinity as the Recess Club or Whyte's in that the patrons are predominantly feminine and, even in an age when women's .tastes in drinks has begun to approximate if not exactly duplicate that of men, the run of orders is more on the elaborate side than is likely to he the case later in the day. Glamourous and worldly Gloria Swanson, a celebrity unabashed in her ta~tes and determined on the best, likes to start the day with what, within the memory of the author used to he known on the Continent as "King's Ruin," because it was the traditional favorite of so many of the old, bearded kings of Europe who used to fre– quent Foyot's, the Cafe de Paris, Maxim's and the Ritz in the days when the going for kings was good. Miss Swanson prefers to call it more elegantly a champagne cocktail even though she commands it served in a tall Tom Collins glass:

Champagne Cocktail Gloria Swanson:

I pint iced champagne, very dry 2 oz. the best cognac twist of lemon peel Served in a tall Tom Collins glass with a cube or two of ice.

Other schools of thought like the same drink in modified containers and with a dash of Angostura Bitters and the author has seen it

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