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Daily News from New York, New York • 38

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New York, New York
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citizenship. Who's Alan Polkes He's our newest and possibly youngest real estate tycoon. He is behind a plan to rejuvenate Eighth con I was browsing through the public prints yesterday and reading in the columns about all the famous restaurants where all the fa-moos people eat and it occurred to me- that this town has a lot of whirlwind trip to central Vermont. From what might be called verting it into a Arctic conditions the situation changed to excellent, then to spring skiing, all within three days. boulevard of luxury apartment houses, and he has his eye on Broadway, too, vision-ing a general Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, VOH'T COME IN SFSS HERE TO the Snow Town of Vermont, was the first stop.

The sky was cloudless that morning and the i thermometer outside of Don Cut -H the low 40s to I the high 50s. f.4 I Polkes. 29. was restaurants 'which are famous with their own solid followers and never get written about at all. So here's writing about a few of them which, for one reason or another, you've probably never been in and maybe never will be.

FRANKIE AND JOHNNY'S: This, is a tiny loft one flight up at 45th St. and Eighth Ave. Starting as early as 5:30 in the afternoon the theatre treasurers and company managers and producers barge in for dinner. Later the place gets the stars from the nearby theatres and the sporting set. No romances or brawls ever make news at the tiny bar, but the place has lasted through two generations of Johnny Phillipses.

It serves chops as thick as a two-by-four plank, its steaks are pos ter's base lodge read 10 below zero. On North Peak however, almost 2.000 feet higher, we could only guess that it was at least 10 colder. Combined with a mur derous wind that whipped the a file clerk for Webb and Knapp until a few years back. Elaine May's first play, "A Matter of Posi slopes in gusts up to 40 m.p.h., cleaning off several inches of Josie O'Donnell powder that fell the previous day, Margie Fields we can say these were Arctic ski conditions. SKIING WAS HARDLY en- joyable since it was our first real I outing of the we felt obliged to brave the elements at anv cost.

sibly the best in town and it is tion," is being read by producers. Vrtth production of "The Ugly suspended again because of star Marlon Brando's unavailability he now thinks hell be "ready" in maybe another four weeks other cast members are entering their sixth month as non-working but salaried players. Work on the film started last Apg. 9 and the payroll has been met every week since then. Football's Ernie Davis needed interference to ward off autograph fanswhen he was discovered dining at the Envoy.

Actress Susanne Pleshette, being romanced by Troy Donahue, wasn't amused when an anonymous friend sent her a pair of miniature boxing gloves. Donahue, you'll remember, dropped a court decision to ex-girl-friend Lili Kardell, who accused him of belting her so hard that she had to be hospitalized for six days. One of the hot new singers around town is a chick named Josie O'Don- A real, cool 25-mmute ride on the 1.700 foot and 6.207 foot poma lifts took us up to North Peak but it was necessary to spend another 15 minutes performing calisthenics to loosen frozen joints and get some feeling hack into the numbed extremities. After runs on the novice trails. nell.

She swings with an Irish lilt. It's been a tough week forhe 3H-mile Mountain Road and the Twist, (linger Rogers rapped it, Tampa's community centers'the three-mile Squaw, we took one of the few places in the world that knows how to get the grease out of hashed brown potatoes. No use going there. You can't get a table until 10 o'clock and by that time you'll have eaten elsewhere. JOHN'S: For 52 years this excellent Italian restaurant has gone quietly along with the family running it.

There's Danny and Ann and Tony and on busy nights a spare daughter pitches in. Charlie is in the kitchen and he can cook you anything on a couple hours notice. But it is unlikely John's will become your rendezvous since ther" won't be many times in your life when vou'H find yourself in 12th St. east of Second Ave. www THE PUNJAB: This Bleecker St.

boite has an East Indian motif and is operated by a Urenwicn Village Italian named Peter Mengrone. It has become the Sardi's of the neighboring Olf -Broadway players, who often take their food out in buckets and devour same backstage between performances. Its walls feature the art works (echo queries ART WORKS?) of somebody who says his name is Penrod Schofield. Maestro Schofield has painted the sidewalk sidewall of the Punjab with a huge mural. EL CHARRO and EL PADADOR.

Here are two Mexican restaurants which are a novelty in that they are immaculate both front and back. The dishes are properly spiced and the drinks are highly alcoholic. Both are in the low price range. But you need a cab driver who is a native guide to find Charro in Charles St. and El Parador at 31st St.

and Second is always jammed with doctors ruieu againHi ii, a nussian youm paper ronuemneu it, ana tne two-mile intermediate trail, tor of the London Dance Institute cabled Roseland: "Understand jTomahawk, in fine fashion. Be you have banned the Tist. We are in complete agreement." fore calling off this "Eskimo-type I heir friends says it serious between Margurite Belafonte. Harrv's emo. ex, and record promotion chief Larry Maxwell, her constant escort, iwhat inexpectly, the expert War Dance trail, it was icy and tre'ach the descent was made mostly in the uncomfortable three-point fashion.

OK EM A IS A FINE ski center and its trails are long and interesting. sure I will enjoy skiing there someday when the temperature is about 40' warmer. iivHi uir viuiiaiii campus is inai looioau win De restored tltere. Meg Myles is not at all happy. Sne went to considerable expense to build a new Meg-cla'sses at the Actors Studio and a wardrobe which played down her formidable proportions and so what's happening? What's happening is that Meg's movie.

"Satan in High Heels," is about to be released. There's a nude bathing scene in the film, featuring the old Meg, and the producers refuse to scissor it out. That handsome man dining at Henry Stampler's TV's Mary Lou Ryhal was John Quill, Mike Quills cousin. No, he take her home by subway. In "The Outsider." Tony Curtis plays the role of a Pima Indian.

Oddly, the Pimas are about the only American tribe which has never been glorified in movies The weather had warmed eon-isderable the next morning when we pulled up at the base of Big Bromley near Manchester. Some of the slopes, mostly the expert trails, were icy and blown bare trom gale winds the previous day, but the "novice Run-Around and Thruway were in good shape as were West Meadow and Shin-cracker, the intermediate slopes. We played it safe and stuck with these, enjoying good-to-excellent skiing. and internes from nearby Bellevue. www THE ABSINTHE HOUSE: This midtown tavern with its New Orleans cuisine is the place where you rub shoulders with great writers who won't write anything, colorful actors who don't happen to be, acting at the moment and other luminous figures from the arts whose only current efforts are signing the tab.

It is run by Mr. and Mrs. Marc Reuben. The only time to go is when Mrs. Reuben is in charge.

When Mr. Reuben is in charge he. is dedicated only to chasing customers out of his place. I would have to doubt that there is better Spanish food in Madrid or Bilbao than there is here. Fornos also has those wondrous Basque wines, the Marques de Riscals and those great Rioja reds.

But there's no sense having dinner at Fornos unless you know what yon want. Don't just settle for Spanish chicken and yellow rice. You can get that anywhere. www- THE STAGE: Not only is this a mouth-watering delicatessen but you get to hear the wit and wisdom of ounder-horseplayer Max Asnas. Recently Jack E.

Leonard had mustard spilled on his sports jacket. Max offered to have it cleaned. "It's an expensive jacket," warned Jack. "You think I use cheap mustard?" demanded Max: The only way you can sit "down in this place is to sit with strangers. or television.

Dorothy Loudon, the Blue Angel comedienne, is putting her E. 8-'id St. town house on the market. Connie Francis' new pact with MGM calls for three years of film making and five years of record waxing. Wasn't Barbara Clark, disk jock Dick's former wife, quietly marri4 ever the weekend to an engineer named Barker? Thrush Margie Fields makes her kwal club debut tonight at the Emerald Room the Astor.

These scantily attired waitresses at the Gaslight are permitted work only three nights per week, bat they do all right. Their take for the three nights, including tips, averages $175 "Milk and Honey" star Molly Picon will serve as chairman for the nonsectarian Deborah Hospital's annual fund campaign. Expatriate painter Hilaire Hiler, op and around after a hernia operation, is readying a one-man show at the FU4.R. Galleries A good snowfaH was needed to put the area in top shape for the weekend and the white dust started to fall by evening. fickle weather plaevd a dirty trick.

By morning. the-thermo- or I we torn r-noiisiiins to. is eliminating meter soared to Sy and the Dre am-lion of the employes pension plan thio year to "preserve and eiprtation changed to rain, drizzle inc company a economic SOUnanesS. rtim lup. MANY OF THE TRII? wr EFFECTIVE MEDICATION closed as the snow melted and: brown earth came through to mar the white landscape.

The) iiv iiiob i triiittiiitru was soil anu spongy, the type you would ex-: pect tor spring skiing. Clears Head ini3 Is one tvne nf Bkimy Hn I t'lltaHf not appreciate, so I strapped the heads onto the ski rack and headed back home in a downpour. Had it been I might still WWW Soothes Threat De up at Big Bromley, In addition to its weekend trips Bromley. Snow, Stratton and other top areas, the Scandinavian I Ski Shop is offering a one-day trip to Belleayre Mountain this i Wednesday. js Tat Mimmmm ir.

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