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Concerning the Curriculum
been drunk back in the days of the Waldorf sit-down
Bar.
In
compliment to the locale of the play, the Trilby
cocktail was made of one-third French Vermuth and
two-thirds Old Tom Gin, with dashes of Orange Bitters
and Creme Yvette. "Salome," when it came to the Met–
ropolitan Opera House, had its success celebrated in a
way that might have made Strauss weep for his seidel
or his stein of Pilsner. With its two dashes of Absinthe,
cementing half portions ofltalian Vermuth and Dubon–
net, it lacked German authorship, but certainly nothing
in authority. Mrs. Leslie Carter must have heard, when
she helped put Mr. Belasco large on the theatrical map,
that "Zaza" made one of its biggest hits in the form of
an invention of a Waldorf barman. The Zaza cocktail
was somewhat milder than the Salome, for only one–
third of its content was Old Tom Gin, that being allied
with two-thirds Dubonnet and two dashes of Orange
Bitters. And Charlie Chaplin had a cocktail named in
his honor when he began to make the screen public laugh.
Bro
EVENTS SPIRITUOUSLY MEMORIALIZED
In those days every big or spectacular event claimed its
appropriate honorification at the hands of those Waldorf
dispensers of drink. For example, the first composition
of the Arctic cocktail celebrated Peary's discovery of the
North Pole-or where it ought to be; the Doctor Cook
cocktail proclaimed the exposure of a celebrated polar
faker whose very entrails Peary once confessed to me
personally, in effect, he hated; the invention of the Cor–
onation cocktail was anticipative of the ten minutes' rest
the late King Edward got when they sat him on the
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