1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

The Stork Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe.

A wag once remarked that the three most engaging phenomena of the contemporary NewYork scene were Mrs. Vanderbilt, the Stork Club and Lucius Beebe. The Stork Club and Lucius Beebe are represented by this book, and it may be remarked that Mrs. Vanderbilt herself is an occasional visitor to the Stork, a circumstance which would seem to take care of everything. Here is the Stork Club. Not the whole of it, for its legend has achieved Homeric proportions. But here is the essence of its being-a brandied core of its reality-a souffie fl avored with its personality, atmos– phere and glamour. !Continued on back fiapJ

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