Showing posts with label Stork Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stork Club. Show all posts

Sunday, January 1, 2012

New Year's Eve: Seen and heard at the Stork Club

It was a fine evening on Park Avenue. The perfect venue for the Stork Club. What frails, what frocks! What furs, what rocks...


Mrs. Kyle Cunningham presents le boeuf.

Mrs. Craig Strydom hunting for her powder.

Stork takes the cake.
Celebrated Baltimore architect swirls a Double Black.

Bolton Hill socialites.

Bostonian celebutante.

Renowned Professor and much-lauded architect share a joke.

Hostesses hard at work.

We deserve a cocktail, dammit!

In a sentimental mood. 

"Have you heard that Mimsie Starr just got pinched in a sailor's bar?"

Swing when you're winning - resident pianist.

Co-host and consumate sommelier.

The Rat Pack.

Mr. Errol Flynn.

Kings of the heap...

A grand old time.

Singer Scotti Preston in a rendition of God Bless the Child.

Roland Park "It Girl".

What a swell party this is.

Some came a-packing

Delusions of grandeur.

Paparazzo.

Baltimore high society bid adieu to a tough 2011.

Errol flanked by Messrs. Verheyen and Strydom.

Ain't misbehaving... 

Mr. and Mrs. Errol Flynn.

 On the left, Mount Vernon socialite in a Hepburn-esque get-up.

Suave and tinkering with new technology.

A coquettish moment.

Straight, no chaser...

Well, did you evah?

I Get A Kick Out Of You...

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?

Photographs by Craig Strydom
Some words liberally borrowed from Frank Sinatra's Well, Did You Evah?

Friday, December 30, 2011

NYE: Stork Club

Picture the scene: Ethel Merman at the Stork Club, a waiter specifically assigned to her with the singular purpose of lighting her cigarettes. Or, the news of Grace Kelly's enegagement to Prince Ranier of Monaco 'breaking' at the Stork. It was the place to be. Frequented by Hollywood royalty.

A night at The Stork will be re-imagined on New Year's Eve - hosted by dear friends, complete with original Stork Club memorabilia, painstakingly collected over many months. I cannot wait to see what everyone will be wearing. I only hope I fit into my dress after a Christmas of sheer excess. Photographs next week...

Rhumba with Ecita and her Orchestra, Stork Club
Stork Club Powder Room
Stork Club Cloakroom, mid 1940's
Ashtray with slot for matches

Some of the celebrities who patronized the Club...

Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw

Peter Lawford and JFK

Elizabeth Taylor with her parents

Greg Bautzer and Joan Crawford

Jackie, Pat, Ethel, Jean and Eunice

JFK, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt and Herbert Swope

John F. and Jackie Kennedy

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio

Images via Life and The Stork Club