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EL MOROCCO] Disbound scrapbook of El Morocco related clippings , circa1930s onward. Comprising approximately 75 album sheets, each approximatel 11 x 13 inches, with numerous clippings and ephemera affixed to rectos and versos; Together with a small scrapbook devoted to The Place Pigalle. The album sheets worn but each protected in a plastic sleeve, sold with all faults. The current scrapbook sheets contain hard to find details about the happenings at El Morocco and life-events of it's famous patrons. As no major biography has been written on John Perona or his famous club the scrapbook pages here provide inestimable information on the speakeasies, glamorous supper clubs, and oversized personalities that ruled New York City in the 1930s onward. Included are early articles by Ed Sullivan, an El Morocco regular, as well as those by Jerome Zerbe, Lucious Beebe, Walter Winchell and others including several clippings from the column aptly titled Caviar and Cordials. Many scandals and crimes are reported with outlandish headlines such as "Ritzy Bath Club Raided" about the demise of a 53rd street speakeasy and "Whaddya Mean, Rift?" above a photograph of Errol Flynn and his wife. A dapper tuxedo-clad Clark Gable looks stunned under the headline "Gable's Wife asks Divorce", Max Baer refused to fight under the headline "No dough, No fight" and things got wild at the opening night party at El Morocco as "Party Guests Hang on Chandeliers." The papers recorded famous and foreign visitors to El Morocco under headlines such as "Visitors from London indulge in Gotham's Night Life Whirl" and "N.Y. Night Clubs and Cafes Jammed as Wave of Gaiety Hits Crescendo." Assembled from the unique point of view of El Morocco's owner, John Perona, archives such as this are truly rare. C El Morocco: The John Perona Collection