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NEW YORK STEAK
ON A SIZZLING PLATTER
or
BROILED FLORIDA $6 95
RED SNAPPER
COMPLETE. DINNER INCLUDES: SOUP, SALAD,
VEGETABLE OR - POTAIO:
40 OTHER ENTREE ITEMS ALSO AVAILABLE
Live Entertainment & Dancing
Monday Thru Saturday
1 1055 TELEGRAPH AT 9 MILE RD.
353-511V
CAFE FIOR
Mexican and Italian Food
Savor the best of two worlds in - a
garden atmosphere
Great Exotic Cocktails
Entertainment Tues. thrtr Sat.
Hours: Tues. thru Fri. from 11 a.m.
Sat. & Sun. from 4 p.m.
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at 9 Mite
544-7933
ONE OF MICHIGAN'S OLDEST RESTAURANTS
"We Say Good Food And We Mean It!"
PARKING IN REAR •
OPEN 7 DAYS--BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER
0118 FAMOUS SPECIAL DINNERS
BROILED FRESH WHITE FISH
$3.75
BROILED FRESH LAKE TROUT
$3.75
STUFFED FLOUNDER
$3.50
BROILED HALIBUT
$3.50
BROILED PICKEREL
$3.75
SEAFOOD PLATTER
$4.85
FRIED SCALLOPS
$3.95
JUMBO SHRIMPS.
$4.95
FRESH FISH & CHIPS
$2.85
BAR-B-0 RIBS
ROAST PRIME RIB
OF BEEF
$5.45
$5.45 _
BAR B 0 CHICKEN
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3.50
ROAST SIRLOIN OF BEEF
BRAISED SHORT RIBS
$4.50
$3.50
ALL ABOVE INCLUDE: SALAD, VEG., POT.
GREEK BREAD & BUTTER
RIALTO'S SPECIAL BREAKFAST
SERVED AT ALL TIMES!
• 2 EXTRA LARGE EGGS
• 3 BREAKFAST MEATS
• PINEAPPLE RING
• HOME-MADE AMERICAN FRIES
• TOAST &
JELLY
$2.85
• STEAKS • CHOPS • GREEK DISHES • ITALIAN DISHES
• CHILDREN'S MENU • HOME COOKING
MON. THRU THURS. 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., FRI. & SAT. 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
SUN. 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
•COCKTAILS BEER
CHINESE
BUFFET
Featuring All Varieties of
(The Best of Everything
Served Mon. Thru Sat. Nights sas) (0 .-7-' 3Dc4."
WINE.
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gives prime rib for sand-
wiches . . . a perfect munch-
ing snack in the good-sized
Darlin' Lilly's cocktail
lounge where Pat Flowers
plays.
Tomorrow night and
Monday evening will be St.
Patrick's Day celebrations
with wearin' of the green at
Darlin' Lilly's . . . Tomor-
row eve, Pat Flowers brings
in bagpipes to play with
him.
THE NIGHT OWL
HOOTS ...
"Jimmy
Durante and Jack Kofoed
back in 1931 wrote a book
called 'Night Club" pub-
lished by Alfred A. Knopf.
Durante comes alive
through the pages — evok-
ing an aura of nostalgia for
those who remember and
maybe a feeling of admira-
tion for those who don't
"A piano banged by a kid
in a black sweater, its tinny
notes inching throtigh the
voices of singing waiters,
clattering glassware,
shuffling feet. 'Louder, you
bum, or how'll they hear
you?'
"Up town, way up town at
125th Street — a good band
— dancing — a floor show —
drinking — a few loose
ladies — a closed door
speakeasy — big time
gamblers — easy money
chislers — plenty of fun — a
dead-line that shut down
the music only when the sun
came up — that was the
Club Durant.
"A big room hung with
expensive draperies —
crowded tables on a glit-
tering dance floor —
Jimmy Durante — the
same Jimmy who once
sat at the piano in a
Coney Island joint —
singing, clowning, play-
ing the maddest cut-up
the world ever saw.
"Durante went through
all the phases of the night
club racket. He came up
from the joints to the big
time. Broadway made an
idol of him — a Bergerac-
nosed howling idol who was
so funny he was simply ir-
resistible.
"He wasn't good looking
or aristocratic. He was
brought up on the Bowery
and his father owned a
barber shop. But he was
Jimmy Durante which was
quite enough for anybody
who knew Broadway.
"If there was a formula to
his madness, Durante didn't
know what it was. He
wasn't the introspective
sort. He just got that way
and kept it up with varia-
tions. The idea was to be in-
cessantly crazy. He slam-
med a piano, threw hats at
the orchestra and tried a lot
of gags.
"Because of his mad-
ness he became the object
of a cult. His art was dis-
sected in a serious review
in the 'New Republic.'
Critics probed for hidden
meanings in his comedy.
There were no hidden
meanings as far as
Durante was concerned.
"Durante made the song
`Broadway' famous. He :I
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called it a fake and phony
but it was his life. Night
clubs meant as much to
Durante as a broker's office
or a surgeon's operating
room. He was at his best
with a full house. But even
on a dull night, he was al-
most equally irresistible.
"Blase, tired-eyed
Broadway lost something
when the irrepressible -
Durante took his last bow. It
has never seen a madcap
just like him and will never
see another.
"People in those days es-
timated the fun they were
having by the noise they
made. A moment's lagging
was fatal — as conspicuous
as a splash of tomato soup
on a dress shirt.
"Durante put a fren-
zied drive into the sec-
onds. When this type of
club came into vogue he
was in his element. Cus-
tomers were better
targets for his gibes and
wisecracks and were in a
better mood for it.
"Durante stormed the
citadels of insanity for
years. Comedy is as closely
allied to insanity as genius
ever was. The Schnoz star-
red in musical comedy and
vaudeville and motion pic-
tures. But those ventures
were merely wanderings
down pleasant bypaths.
Night clubs were by him
and for him.
"No one knew the in-
nards of that game better
than he. He started in a
Coney Island joint and
clowned his way through
the intervening phases till
he captured the tanned
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Authentic Chinese Dishes
ALL YOU CAN EAT
Served from 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.
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Across From Showcase
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ANTOINE'S:
805 WOODWARD AT LINCOLN Royal Oak
OPEN 24 HOURS
ONE-WEEK ONLY SPECIALS, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
FRI. . . . FISH & CHIPS
$2.49
SAT. . . .16 oz. PORTERHOUSE STEAK .
1.95
SUN. . . . ROASTED OR- B-B-Q CHICKEN
$2.95
MON. . . GUS OR GYROS
$3.95
TUES. . . LAMB SHANK
$3 95
WED. . . KAFTA
$3.95
THURS.. SHISH KEBAB
$4.50
(ABOVE SERVED WITH SALAD & POTATOES OR RICE)
OUR GREAT BREAKFAST SPECIALS
6 a.m. to 11 a.m.
NO. 1 . . . 2 EGGS, HASH BROWNS,
TOAST & COFFEE
NO. 2 . . . 2 EGGS, 2 STRIPS OF BACON,
2 LINKS OF SAUSAGE,
TOAST & COFFEE . . . ....
NO. 3 . . . 2 EGGS, 2 STRIPS OF BACON,
2 LINKS OF SAUSAGE,
3 PANCAKES & COFFEE
$149
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. $ 1 69
S1 79
SENIOR CITIZENS DISCOUNT MON., WED. & SUN.
(Except on Specials)
20% OFF
COMPLETE CARRY-OUT AVAILABLE
OUR ANTIPASTO SALAD BAR IS
SECOND TO NONE!
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11005 Middlebelt at Plymouth
Wonderland, Shopping Center
522-5880
Livonia
DINNERS FROM $3 95 TO $ 5 25
Include: Home-Made -Breadsticks,
Antipasto Salad and Spumoni
We also feature pizzas, steaks and
Catch-Of-The-Day Seafood Special
LUNCHEON SERVED MON. THRU FRI. 11:30 to 4 p.m.
NOW APPEARING IN OUR ALL NEW "BACK ROOM"
Tuesday Thru Saturday 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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