yesterday there was a 1930 piece from Hollywood Daily Citizen which began: "Roses and carnations banked the tables at the dinner dance given last Saturday night by Lila Lee, who entertained at the Embassy Club in honor of her sister, Mrs. Leonard Tufford of Elyria, Ohio." then a list. you know this old listologist is equally smitten by lists & oldtime Hollywood. so I was fascinatd to learn that Peg Tufford -- whose office was right on the town square when I was a boy -- sippd Satan's Whiskers with the likes of Bessie Love Howard Hughes Billie Dove Eric von Stroheim Laura LaPlante Paul Bern. & it goes on & on.
Embassy Club was a second-floor private dining room next door to Montmartre Cafe (both run by Eddie Brandstatter).
Elmer Fryer portrait of Lila & Peg that hangs in my guest bathroom
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