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MontyWoolley improves on the usual proportions of the dry Martini
simply by increasing the conventional proportions of gin and ver–
mouth to four to one, admonishes barkeeps to use cube ice and no
lemon whatsoever, and, when asked what this will do for the con–
s umer, remarks with a worIdly leer: "Consult Lillian Russell!"
Still another variation on the theme of gin and vermouth, which
Cole Porter in
The Two Little Babes in the Woods
discovered was
the fountam of youth comes from Mary Astor:
Astor Painless Anesthetic:
3 oz. gin
I oz. French vermouth
I oz. Italian vermouth
I oz. cognac
Shake well with ice cubes and dash of
orange bitters, twist of lemon peel and
just' a touch of sugar.
Don Ameche frowns a masculine frown upon mixed liquor in any
form on the understandable grounds that he is an admirer of
straight bourbon whisky and no nonsense about a chaser. But Bonita
Granville offers what she contends to be the barkeep's answer to
· the atomic bomb:
Snow
White:
5 oz. Southern Comfort
I oz. vodka
I oz. fresh pineapple juice
1h oz. orange juice
Mix in a Waring mixer and serve in an old–
fashioned glass.
A
touch of sentiment attaches to the favorite drink of the ever–
provocative Billie
~urke
Ziegfeld who writes
in
as follows:
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