Most famed Manhattan speakeasy during Prohibition, nearly as successful a restaurant since Repeal is Jack & Charlie's 21 West 52nd St. Last week Hearstpaper readers were titillated, shocked or disgusted by a six-instalment tale of misconduct between Proprietor Jack Kriendler and Mrs. Dorothy ("Dolly") Gaddess, wife of Socialite-Banker Norris Barrymore Gaddess of Greenwich, Conn. Somehow Hearst's Evening Journal had got hold of the transcript of Husband Gaddess' divorce proceedings, which were heard by a horrified referee in private chambers. It included 443 dictaphone records of telephone conversations between Jack & Mrs. Gaddess....
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