We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
amous
Feed
Offer Both and Gazing
nothing but the food to attract the eating public, it is generally half-empty.
It may safely be ventured that the average tourist is too occupied in looking at celebrities at the Montmartre to pay much attention to the meal, the service, and the size of the cheek. The lunch here consists of all the stuffed tomatoes, spaghetti, chicken a la king and cold meat that you can eat; but, on Wednesdays, try and get it! The tables are so close together that there is no room for the waiters to pass; and at the entrance a crowd of would-be star-gazers surges behind a rope, while Eddie Brandstatter, the Montmartre' s owner, does what he can to keep them happy until there is a table vacant. Lunch costs $1.10, and everything is extra. If you're lucky you can get out without going into your second $5 bill for lunch for two.
CHARLIE, PATRON OF CHOW
VERY few stars do not occasionally put in an appearance at the Montmartre. They also patronize it in the evening, when there is dancing and more room. One person you can always bank on seeing here is Tom Mix.
As familiar a figure at Henry's Cafe and Delicatessen as is Tom Mix at the Montmartre is Charlie Chaplin. Henry's is the second best place in Hollywood to see stars. It lies several blocks east of the Montmartre on Hollywood Boulevard. It is one of two places within easy reach that remain open all night, and is therefore crowded with members of the film colony between the hours of 11 p.m. and 3 a.m., when coffee and sandwiches are the principal orders.
Henry's was started by Henry Bergman, an actor who has long been with Chaplin, and Chaplin financed it. Formerly a small delicatessen shop, it was moved a year ago to large premises. It is a riotous success; Chaplin now sits in pontifical majesty in the middle of the room
munching a cheese on rye in the wee small hours each night, while Bergman, who has grown immensely fat on his profits, goes from table to table looking over the crop of celebrities. Victor McLaglen is in and out of Henry's several times a day, and is to be seen surrounding enormous and juicy steaks; while Josef von Sternberg, Sid Grauman, Lane Chandler and Alice White could each cross the Pacific Ocean on the sandwiches they have eaten at Henry's if some obliging person would lay them end to end. Half the business of the movies is transacted over the tables of Bergman's cafe; and the strong black coffee served here has done wonderful work in straightening out the inebriated footsteps of celluloid celebrities who make the cafe the {Continued on page 98)
Two stars having luncheon in the favorite habitat of stargazers: Lila Lee and Bebe Daniels at the Montmartre
■
r .1
So crowded is the Montmartre on occasions with luncheon parties such as that pictured at the left, that the stars frequently slip off to Henry's — above — where they may eat in a comparative privacy Whittington
35