The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 19

I J'WW i s.urd.y,M.f.2i(i9M 5C2H 1 9 I I FI Oil fur, a 1 i splendid hats of the 2 HI ill Photo bvV. M. Hanks Jr I In the '50's they still ones as evidenced wore hats in the Mural Room but quieter by Mmes. Robert Watt Miller, Prentice Hale. Unforgettable were the ME UNDER THE atop Monday lunchers Mmes.

Jackson Moffett and Ricky Musto Remember Monday Lunch at Phil Harris sang "Minnie the Mermaid." Ted Fio Rito played there. Ted Weems Jan Garber Eddie Fitzpatrick and Freddie Martin. Remember The Lambeth Walk? And you called your favorite hotel the Frantic, of course. if ting at their tables In the Mural Room aw aiting their Golden Gate salads." "Meet me under the clock" was the watchword then and still is, although the legendary luncheon tradition is gone. The rendezvous spot is an elaborately carved, electrically operated clock imported from Austria in 1907 and placed near the Mural Room entrance, lt'd only stopped once hen members of the Russian delegation to the UN ripped out the wires of a timepiece in their suite, presuming it was a dictaphone.

Every clock in the hotel stopped, for the big clock in the hall controls them all. 'Remember the '30s and "40s. when everyone went dancing in the Mural Room to big name bands. i -1 Photo Oy V. V.

Harms Jr. "Meet Me Under the Mrs. Vincent Mullins There have been many prominent "permanent" guests through the years. But none more a part of the city than the late Herbert Fleishhacker who made his home at the St. Francis from 1908 until his deatli there seven years ago.

The hotel's flag flew at half mast when he died. And his widow still lives there. When the Republican convention takes place here this summer, the Fairmont will be official headquarters. But it's the St. Francis where Caruso once strode through the lobby and Anna Held took her baths in milk.

where in more recent years, Mac Arthur stayed when he was recalled from Korea, and Eisenhower as billetted in 19.T). It is the St. Francis Hotel which lias been named headquarters for Distinguished Guests. from And remember the late Elsa Maxwell's "Barnyard Party" on St. Patrick's Day in 1939.

when the famed party-tosser arrived triumphantly in a donkev cart? That was just two years afler dapper Dan London, one of the youngest hotel executives in the country, took over as manager "of the St. Francis, and San Francisco society took the London family tu its collective heart. Through the years. the The mid-'40's and Clock' epitomized by 'The Frantic'? town's important families have observed significant rites at the St. Francis.

In 1952 the Bruce Kelhams introduced their daughter Alexandra to friends at a tea dance in the Mural Room, transformed into a "King and setting. Four years later, when Alex married W. Robert Phillips the reception took place in the Mural Room. Nan Schlesinger and Thomas Kempner exchanged vows at a ceremony for which the Colonial and Italian Rooms were decked with almond blossoms and tiny sparkling lights. And when the since-divorced Isabel Flood Obreshkow greeted her wedding reception guests in the Colonial Room, the line wailing to offer congratulations extended from the entrance down the stairs all the way buck to the lobby.

in black cr nude calf, 22.95 Mural Room "regu- Ernest, who ruled his Another lar," Mrs. Kenneth dining room empire. Mrs. Jacob G. Schur-Aonteagle in '41 man III nilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllMItlllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllll lllltlllllllltlllitlllltllltlllllltllllllfllllllllllltllltlllllMlllllllIIIIIIIIItlllJIIIIllIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllltllllllll SUZY KNICKERBOCKER Juliana Still Disenchanted With Daughter's Intended 4 Extmlntr Photo.

40's like these retary, Ginette Lery, secretly in France. Ginette has been his secretary for the past six years, and when the secret marriage took place is pretty secret. Now they have a child, a little boy, and on fine days you can see Jimmy walking him and bis daughter by Isabel (who died in childbirth) through Paris' Eois de Boulogne. It certainly has surprised the International know-it-alls who had him all set to marry one of London's most beautiful socialites who was supposed to have dropped her husband over Jimmy. Men.

honestly! Dolly O'Brien, one of the all-time great society beauties of her era (and her era lasted a long time) is recovering from her serious illness in a Palm Beach hospital. But John Cobb, her friend and confidant for the last several years, has been sent packing by Dolly's familv ho definitely DO NOT APPROVE. Soraya has a new protege, a young Venetian songwriter named Pino Diaggio. He'll compose the music for her upcoming film. Pino won the San Remo Song Festival with a romantic ballad about the former Iranian Empress and love and love and more love.

It worked. Men. honestly! IAT AREA STORES" Houa MEET By CAROLINE DREWES Like a dowager counting her blessings, the St. Francis Hotel preened herself today, basking in the light of the city's respect and good wishes. This is her sixtieth birthday a day to savor memories, to recall past glories, to review a full life.

Built by Crocker money, the famed Union Square hostelry opened her doors March 21, 1904. In a symbolic gesture denoting hospitality, the key was thrown away. And the St. Francis has played a vivid role in the social history San Francisco ever since. Remember 1923, when members of the California Historical Society sat down to a gourmet dinner in the "Mezzanine Room," only to learn the waiters had gone on strike? The blue-blooded guests among them John S.

Drum, Joseph D. Grant, William H. Crocker rose to their feet in righteous indignation and brought in the roast themselves. Remember when they opened the patent leather bar in 1939. the year of the Fair, two years before the war? It was quickly nicknamed "Coffin Corner" or "The Bar Sinister" but San Franciscans flocked to it anyway.

But most of all remember Monday lunch in the Mural Room, a phenomenon which prevailed for nearly half a century and was relegated to limbo only two years ago. At that last luncheon, society attended misty-eyed with nostalgia. After all middle-aged women had come to the Mural Room as shy little boarding school girls On this last day, they thought with affection of Ernest Gloor, the round-faced Swiss maitre d'hotel who had reigned with absolute power over the Mural Room as he watched them grow up and who had died in 1959, a year after his retirement. Under Ernest's attentive eye, the creme de la creme sat at the first live tables just inside the door. Rain or shine, the "regulars" showed up every Monday for lunch In the Mural Room.

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It's just that Irene and Carlos sort of wander off by themselves WITHOUT EVER TELLING ANYONE WHERE THEY'RE GOING, and, really, Juliana would like to be kept informed, if nobody minds. It seems a bit much to expect Carlos and Irene to hold hands in full view of mummy and daddy, but if anybody can cool off that hot Spanish blood it's Juliana. Guilders talk. Hose Kennedy and one of her closest friends, Helene Arpels of New York, flew to Paris. The mother of the Shoe Salon, Grant avenue and ell branches EX-EMPRESS SORAYA Has new protege late President of the United States represented the family when a street as dedicated to and named after John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Jimmy Goldsmith, once married to the late Isabel Patino, daughter of Bolivian multimillionaire Ante-nor Patino, married his sec- and Mrs. Frederick M. Coleman, and Beth Sherman, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert S.

Sherman. "Cinderella" will be staged with "The Magic Umbrella" at 2:30 at the Theater, 3369 Sacramento St. Admission is $1.50 for adults; and $1.00 for children. Tickets may be reserved by calling WE 1-9777. 'CINDERELLA' TODAY The roles of sprites and mice in today's matinee of "Cinderella" presented by the Children's Ballet Theater will be danced by a number of very young, non-professional dancers from San Francisco and Marin County.

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