Souvenier du restaurant Antoine

              Souvenir
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Fonde' en 1840
lRO}? 1. Rlciatoret )proprietor
==717 St. 1Loute Street 1Rew ~r(eane, 1La.
Roy L. Alciatore
Proprietor of Antoine's drawn by the noted Caricaturist
Moro Gonzalez.
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Irvin S. Cobb
HOnce upon a time, being seduced by certain poetic words of Thackeray, I made a
special trip to a certain cafe in Paris to eat bO!tilla-bdisse. 1 found it distinctly worth
while. Later I Went to Marseilles, the home of this dish, and there ate it again and found
it,.. better. And then I came back to America and ate it at Antoine's in New Orleans and
found it best of all."
- from Irvin S. Cobb's Article, nJust to Make Your Mouth
Water."-Cosmopolitan Maga~jne .
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Will Rogers
Syndicated News Service
"Antoine's is the famo"ds eating place of New Orleans, and let me tell you
brother, when you have a famous eating place in that city, it must be some
place, because they do know how to eat, and what to eat, and hospitality, and
when you speak of Antoine's you have reached the "Z" and "&" in alphabetical
praise.
It was foun,ded in 1840 and has never had to resort to a jazz band. Imagine
a restaurant existing and making a world wide reputation on just food. My
sombrero is topped to Jules and Roy at Antoine's."
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Rntoine'a 1Ia to lAew ®rleana 'Ulllbat
lDelmonico' a 'Ulllaa to lAew ~ork
or ~be <rate Rnglaia to ~aria.
The home of good cheer . .
The home of fine Cooking.
The place where trouble and tribulations are left
behind.
It is the place "par excellence" for the gourmet,
because there is always something new for the refined senses.
New dishes , new seasoning, lIew presentation of eatables.
What you can get elsewhere you can get at Antoine's.
But, some things you can get at Antoine's you cannot get else­where,
because they are special concoctions of the culinary art,
prepared under the master's eye.
Dishes are created, or new ways of serving old ones are dis-covered
almost weekly.
Eating at Antoine's is like Igetting a new start in life.
You go in with the blues and leave with rosy impressions.
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.surroun~ings
Those who have never partaken of a meal at Antoine's invariably
picture the place gorgeously decorated with all the bright colors of
the rainbow; with gold, silver and bronze leaf plastered in the very
recesses of the ceiling; with a select band 'playing popular music
or excerpts of the Operatic masterpieces; with footmen in princely livery
opening the carriag'e doors, and grooms to take care of the cloaks.
N one of all that.
Antoine's is today what it was at its inception- an immaculately clean place,
with tableware and linen of the severe solid home like· type, and attentive
noiseless waiters, who speak many tongues because they have learned their
avocation on both continents.
No deafening brass band between courses.
No boisterous table neighbors.
When you go to Antoine's, it is to give your palate an un­disturbed
treat.
That is why the p:ace is unique and in a class of its own.
Had Brillat-Savarin lived a century later he would undoubtedly
have referre,d to Antoine's in his "Physiologie du Gout" because it is that
particular atmosp.here of the place which enhances the artistically prepared
dishes and develops to the highest degree the gastric fluids.
Not to have eaten at Antoine's is almost saying that you have never been
in New Orle'ans.
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Antoine Alciatore
Founder
1840 to 1885
Founder of the house of Antoine, who seeking his fortune in America came
to New Orleans and founded in the year 1840 the Restaurant Antoine. Be­ginning
in a small way, it was not long before Antoine's was a byword for all
that stands highest in the culinary line. His talents won for him an enviable
reputation and the little restaurant flourished. Antoine went back to France
his native land to die, and he left the business in the hands of his son Jules.
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Jules Alciatore
Proprietor
1885 to 1930
Jules, a fit successor to his illustrious father, took charge of "Les aff.airs"
and since he too made his studies in the land of his father, the lhou,fiie1 of
Antoine again prospered under his guiding hand, and today it enjoys an inter­national
reputation wherevel~ people gather to discuss the gentle art cf eating
in its many and divers forms. Jules, before his death placed the active manage­ment
of the restaurant in the hands of his son Roy.
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Roy L. Alciatore
Present Proprietor
1930 to 1939
Roy, grandson of Antoine Alciatore, and present proprietor, was born and
reared in America, in a modern age, but nevertheless retains these qualitie;;;
which he inherited from his grandfather and his father in the gastronomic
line, and due to the able tutelage of his father Jules, is a fit successor to carry
on the name of Antoine to still greater heights.
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Jl)istinguis~~~ (bu~sts
In the Spring of 1940 Antoine's Restaurant will celebrate the completion of
one 'hundred years of uninterrupted service in catering to the gustatory needs of
lovers of fine cuisine. The following list of distinguished :g'Ue'sts who have
visited Antoine's in the past century is mute evidence of the fame which the
House of Antoine enjoys throughout the world.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-Presi­dent
William H. Taft, Ex-President Calvin Coolidge, Ex-President Herbert
Hoover, Marechal Foch, General Boul,anger, Admiral Richard Byrd, J. W. Weeks
/ Ex-Secretary of War, George H. Dern Ex-Secretary of War, L. W. Roberts Jr.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Ray Lyman Wilbur Ex-Secretary of the
Interior, Commodore Ernest Lee Jahncke Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
General John J. Pershing, General J. Harbord, General Smedley Butler, Brigadier
General J. H. White, Brigadier General Ray H. Fleming, Major General George
Van Horn Moseley, Captain James J. Van Zandt, Major General J. L. Schley
Chief of Engineers U.S.A., Lieutenant J. M. Ocher and Lieutenant H. L. Chal­lenger
of the U.S. Submarine S-10, Captain W. L. Ainsworth, Colonel Frank
Evans U.S.M.C., Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Ex-Undersecretary of the Treasury,
Henry A. Wallace Secretary of AgTiculture, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the
U.S. Mint, U.S. Attorney Gene,ral Frank M'Ur,phy, Marvin H. McIntyre Secretary
to President Roosevelt, Roor Admiral H. H. Christy, Vice Admiral R. A., R.
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax Commander of West Indies British Squadron, Rear
Admiral Ahthur J. Hepburn, Rear Admiral E. B. Fenner, Vice Admiral Edward
Pettengill, Vice Admiral Edward Campbell, Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis, Com-.
mander Louis J. Gulliver U. S. Frigate Constitution, Captain H. C. C. Blagrove,
Captain Benjamin Dutton, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, Captain G. S.
Burrell C. F. C., Commander Paul Auphan of the Jeanne d'Arc, Admiral Culverius,
Commander A. N. Addoms, U.S.S. Moffett, Rear Admiral G. J. Rowcliff, Com­mander
Alejandro Salinas San Roman Chilean Ship Rancagua, Lieutenant Com­mander
Neville Levy U. S. N. R., Lieut.-Commander Paul Serpette French Ship
d'E,ntrecasteaux, Lieutenant Commander Paul Broussaunt French Submarine
Ouessant, Lieutenant Pierre Le Creux French Submarine Agosta, Captain
J . S. kbbott, Rear Admiral H. V. Butle,r, Captain A. B. Reed, Commander Cris­tobal
Gonzalez Aller y Acebal Spanish Ship Juan Sebastian de E'l'cano, Lieutenant
Commander H. R. Thurber, Lieutenant Commander Albert Casanova Gonzelez
Cruiser Cuba, Rear Admiral P. A. Rossiter Surgeon General U. S. N. Commandant
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Gonet, Capt. Louis Sable, Naval Attache at Washington, French Ambassador
George Bonnet, English Ambassador Sir Esme Howard, Frenc,h Ambassador Paul
Claudel, German Ambassador Dr. Hans Luther, Royal Italian Ambassador Au­gusto
Rosso, French Ambassador J . Jusserand, Greek Ambassa'dor Demetrios
Sicilianos, Royal Italian Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, Japanese Ambassador Ke~­suke
Harinouchi, Abdel Wiahab Pasha Egyptian Undersecretary of State, Capt.
J oao Alberto Lins de ,Barros, Brazilian C.abinet Member, President Anastasio
Somoza of Nic,aragua, Harry L. Hopkins W. P. A. Chief, J. Edgar Hoover F. B. I.
Chief, Howard O. Hunter W. P. A. Administrator, L. W. "Chip" Robert National
Democratic Secretary, Archibald MacLeish Librarian of Congress, F. V. Sorrels
Chief of Secret Service, Colonel E. W. Starling Chief of W'hite House Secret\
Service, Donald Richberg, ExAmbassador Hoffman Philip, Honourable Gerald \
Drew, Nathan Strauss Chief Housing Administrator, Dr. Leon De 'Bayle Minister
of Nicara'gua, Supreme Court Jus:tice Felix Frankfurter, Lloyd C. Griscom
Former Ambassador, Jefferson Caffery Ambassador to Brazil, Harper Sibley
U. S. Cham'ber of Commerce, O. John Rogge Assistant Attorney General, Japanese
Admiral Yamamoto, Major General Ch.arles Macon Wesson, Chief of Or·dnance
U. S. A. Colonel E. P . Pierson, Leiutenant Commander John J . Patterson U. S. N.
DIGNITARIES
Senator John H. Bankhead, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, Senator Gerald
P. Nye, Senator Henrick Shipstead, Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Sena:tor John
H. Overton, Senator Allen J. Ellender, Senator Theodore Bilbo, Senator Robert
Mouton, Senator Harry D. Wilson, Senator J. K. Griffith, Senator A. Leonard
Allen, Senator Rene de Rouen, Governor David Scholtz of Florida, Governor A.
B. C.handler of Kentucky, Governor J. V. Allred of Texas, Governor Huey Pierce
Long, Governor E'arl K. Long of Louisiana, Governor Hugh L. White of Missis­sippi,
Governor A. W. Norblad of Oregon, Governor Elect Arthur H. Jame.s of
Pennsylvania, Representative Richard M. Kle,berg, Repre·senta:tive Paul H.
Maloney, Congressman Fr-ank Reid, Congressman Wright Patman, Mayor James
J. Walker of N. Y., Mayor Fiorella La Guardia of N. Y., Mayor William Hale
Thompson of Chicago, Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, Mayor Bernard Dick­man
of St. Loui,s, Mayor Ang1e10 J. Rossi of San Francisco, Mayor Bryce B. Smi'th
of Kansas City, Mayor Thomas L. Holling of Buffalo, Mayor Robert S. Maestri
of New Orleans, Mayor Martin Behrman of New Orleans, Archbishop Joseph
Francis Rummel, Patrick Caridnal Hayes, Monsignor Peter M. H. Wynhoven.
NOTABLES
Rene Soulange Teissier Consul General of France, Fernand Gobert Belgian
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Consul, Bernard Gilliat Smith British Consul General, Consul General Bravo of
\ icara.gua, Ro'bert M. Cohan British Consul, H. Stanford London British Consul,
~UliO Holguin Consul of Colombia, Dr. Waclaw Garonski Consul of Poland,
enzo Ito, Consul of Japan, Dr. Francisco Banda Consul of Ecuador, F. Gordon
ule British Consul, Dr. Charles J. Hollub Consul of Czecho-Slovakia, Count
J ean de La Greze French Consul, Rene Delage French Consul, Dr. Vitale Gallina
It,alian Consul, Dr. Ludovico Censi, Italian Consul, Edmundo Aragon Mexican
Consul, J ,ayme de Brito Brazilian Consul, Ernest Wendler German Consul, Baron
Von Speigel German Consul.
NOBILITY
The Grand Duke Alexis, brother of the Czar of Russia, Prince and Princess
Achille Murat, Count and Countess Charles de Peslouan, Count Marcel Ie Besac,
Count Mercier de Caladon, Marquis de Crequi Montfc·rt de Courtivron, Prince
Francois de Bergeyck of Belgium, Count and Countess de Castellani, Count Jean
Michel Cressaty, Baron and Baroness Rodolphe de Schaunsee, Prince Louis
Ferdinand Hohenzollern, Count Tullio Carminati di Brambilla, Baron Andre Van
Havre of Belgium, Sir Herbert and Lady Mar:er of Canada, The Marquis of
Donegall, Lord Godfrey Walter Phillimore, Lord Henry Mackinnon Raikes, Lord
and Lady Swinien, Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, Lady nent of London, Lady Sonja
Cyers of Ireland, Count Aldo Castellani, Charles Guy Fluke Greville E,arl of
Warwick, Marquis and Marchioness Gian Gerolamo Chiavari, Lord Marley, Count
Albrec.ht Van Bismark, Prin'cess Von Bismark, Countess Zappola, Japenese Baron
and Baroness Sumitomo, Baron Von Mumm, Baron Richard Von Schrenk, Count
Charles de Gramont, Lady Nelson of London, Baron W. A. Humboldt, Count
Teofilo Rossi di Montelera, Sir Anthony Lindsay Hogg, Sir William and Lady
Max Muller, Count and Countess David A. Constantini, Grand Duke Dimitri, Sir
and Lady Benjamin Drag'e, Count and Countess Robert Jean de Vogue, Le Duc de
Levis Mirepois, Thelma Furness, Lady Hadfield.
AVIAT,ION
Trans,atlantic Fliers Dieudonnes Costes and Le Brix, Trans,atlantic Fliers
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, Speeodflier James "Jimmy" Doolittle, Speedflier
Roscoe Turner, Captain and Ace Eddie Rickenbacke,r, Transatlantic Flier "Dick"
Merrill, Francesco de Pinedo, Captain Alex P,apina, Clyde Pangborn, Lowell
Yerex, James G. Haizlip, Admiral Richard Byrd, Michel de Troyat, H. S. "Hank"
J ones, Carlton Putnam, C. R. Smith, Colonel Edgar Garrell.
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CELEBRITIES
Sir Thomas Lipton, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. F'ranklin D. Roose
velt, E'mily Roosevelt, Mrs. Warren G. Harding, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Alfre~
M. Landon, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Archie Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. E,lliott Roose
velt, Herbert Hoover II, Curtis B. Dall, John J . Raskob, Charles M. Schwab, Mrs.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Carter Glass Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. ,Pierre Clemenceau, Judge Edward Fabre Surveyor of the Canadian Supreme
Court, Raymond Orteig donor of the Lindburgh prize, John Ringling, John
Ringling North, Judge Pierre Crabites, John W'. (Bet a Million) Gates, Joel
Chandler Harris, Otto Kahn, Franklin L. Hutton, John Drew, W,alter Hale,
Louise Closser Hale, Jules IHache, Helen Kellar, Elizabeth Arden, Dexter Fellows,
Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Liberty Knickerbocker, Isabel Sloane, Mrs. Martin John­son,
Frank (Bring 'em Back Alive) Buck, Lessing Rosenwald, Mrs. Harrison
Williams, Florence B. Gould, A. P. Giannini, Charles R. Gay, James B. Conant
President of Harvard, Adolph Ochs, Harold F. McCormick, Paul Dumont N. B. C.,
Mr. ,and Mrs. Lenox R. Lohr President N. B. C., Major Bowes, Dr. Roger Bigelow
Merriman of Harvard, Dr. Christian Gauss of Princeton, Dr. Harold Dodds Presi­dent
of Princeton, Dean C. E. Clark of Yale, Dr. Edward James McCormick
B. P. O. E., Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson, Geraldine Rockefeller McAlpin
Webester, Clyde R. Place Architect of Rockefeller Center, W. P. Filmer buildelr
of San Francisco bridge, Major Max Oser, A. Atwater Kent, W. Seward We,bb,
Frances Drexel Munn, Mary Munn, C. A. Munn, Leo McDonald, Mrs. Huey P.
Long, Nathan Pe'reles President of the Harvard Clubs, Dr. Rufus C. Harris
President of Tulane, Dr. Roscoe Pound of Harvard. Justice Henry T. Lummus,
Dr. Rene Cruchet of Paris and Bordeaux Fr,ance, Dr. Hans Groedel of Berlin,
Andre Lafar'gue Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Andre Chevrillon President
of l'Academie Francaise, Fortunat Strowski, Raymond Laurent Mayor of Paris,
France, Firmin Roz l'Institut Francaise, Gabriel Louis Jarray President of the
French La Salle Deleg,ation, Dr. Fernand Bruneryre, Paris Municipal Council,
Jules Destombes Academie de Sciences, Algedius Fauteux President of the Mon­treal
Historical Society, Gabriel Lugot Chef of the W'aldorf Astoria, Charles
Baron French Chamber of Deputies, Charles Holt of Time, Otto Hagel of Life,
George IBuford Lorimer Saturday Evening Post, Mr. D. J. Von Balluseck Amster­dam
Holland, Jean Jeraudoux French Minister of Affairs, Louis Mouquin, Miss
Marion Huntington, Colonel Albanus Phillips, Frederick Stinc'hfield President
American Bar Association, Mary Cable Dennis, Gloria Baker, Mr. Charles Bedaux,
Roger R. Grillon, Mrs. Dodge Sloan, Miss Anna Mae Tracy, Kelvin Cox Vanderlip,
M. Diamant Berger, William Makepeace Thackery, Andre Geraux "P~rtinax",
Steve Hannagan, Hugh Bailie President United Press, Mr. ,and Mrs. Julian
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Street, ,Mr. and Mrs. Andre L. Simon, President Wine and Food Society, Lafcadio
Hearn, J. Geor.ge Frederick President Gourmet Society, Paul Henkel Society of
Restaurateurs, J o,hn B. Kennedy N. B. C., Booth Tarkington, Joseph Ziegler
Leiter, Sigmund Spaeth.
SPORTS
James "Gentle.man Jim" Corbett, John L. Sullivan, Jack Dempsey, George
Carpentier, Primo Carnera, Max Baer, "Buddy" Baer, George M. Lott Jr., Martin
Plaa, Vincent Richards, Don Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Bill Tilden, Henri Cochet,
Ty Cobb, Chuck Klein, Lefty Gomez, Bob Feller, Roy Weatherby, Christy Mathew­son,
Babe Ruth, Roger Peckinpaugh, Larry Gilbert, Oscar Vitt, Bill Terry, Jimmy
Foxx, Alva Br·adley, Gerry Nugent, William Harridge, Mel Ott, Johnny Gice, Danny
Shute, Johnny Revolta, Paul Runyan, Bennie Hogan, Henry Picard, Zell Eaton,
Lloyd Mangrum, Dick Metz, Ed Dudley, Freddie Haas Jr., Fred Corcoran, Frank
Walsh, Gus Novotny, John D.awson, Gene Sarazan, ,Rube Albaugh, Horton Smith,
Lawson Little, Jimmy Thompson, Harry Cooper, Bobby Jones, Sam D. p.erry,
Knute Rockne, Andy Kerr, Amos Alonzo Stag'g, Fritz Crysler, Red Dawson, Bernie
Bierman, Earl "Red" Stick, Bryon "Whizzer" White, Art Rooney, Kenesaw M.
Landis, Glen "Slats" Hardin, Ted Cox, Pat O'Shaugnessy, Eddie Reed.
OPERA AND MUSIC
Adelina Patti, Geraldine Farrar, Jenny Lind, Sara"h Bernhardt, Enrico
Caruso, E:mma Calve, Ricardo Martin, John McCormack, Mary Lewis, John
Charles Thomas, Mary McCormick, Marion Talley, Hizi Koyke, Richard Crooks,
E.nid Szantho, Sidney Rayner, Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, Enzio
Pinza, Nino Martini, Elizabeth Rethberg, Herbert Janssen, Bruna Castagna,
Grace Moore, Maria Gambarel1i, Natalie Bodanva, Joseph Bentonelli, Nelson
Eddy, Lily Pons, Richard Bonnelli, Gladys Swarthout, Anna Pavlowa, The Great
Nijinsky, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, Fritz Kreisler, Gregor Piatigor­sky,
Valdimir Golschmann, Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Zack, Ge·nnaro Papi, Pasquale
Amatr, Louis Hasselmans, Edward Johnson General Manager Metropolitan Opera
Association, Edward Ziegler Assistant General Manager, Earle R. Lewis Assistant
General Manager, Chorus Master Fausto Cleva, Leo Silvera, Ida Krehm, Joseph
Knitzer, Jeanette MacDonald, Helen Jepson.
STAGE
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Helen Hayes, Margaret Anglin, Lou Tellegen,
Lillian Russell, Della Fox, Joe Jefferson, Fritzi Scheff, De Wolfe Hopper, Maude
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Adams, Julian Eainge, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Constant Coquelin, Evan
Burrows Fontaine, Izetta Jewel, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Otis Skinner, Catherine
Cornell, Tallulah Bankhead, Guy Bates Post, Katherine Standing, Guy Robertson,
Richard Mansfield, Ethel Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Frank Crumit, Julia Sander­son,
Florenz Zieg'feld, Majorie Rambeau, W,alter Hampden, Gus Van, Georgie
Hale, Leo Feist, Mack Gordon, Harry Revel, Nikita Balieff, Lou Irwin, Herman
the Great, Howard Thurston.
CINEMA
Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Eugene O'Brian, Charles S'pencer Chaplin,
Douglas Fairbanks, Lew Cody, Richard Barthlemess, Willliam S. Hart, Betty
Compton, Theda Bara, Rod Laroque, Esther Ralston, Ricardo Cortez, Ann Harding,
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Irene Rich, Cathryn Carver, Adolf Menjou, Grant
W'ithers, George O'Brien, Warner Baxter, Anita Stewart, Tom Garaghty, Jack
Mulhall, Tully Marshall, Jack La Rue, Jack W'arner, Nick Stuart, Sue Carol, John
Bunny, Marie Dressler, Jimmy Dunn, Gail Patrick, Andy Devine, Charley Chase,
Margaret Gra.hame, Hugh Sothern, Buddy Rogers, Errol Flynn, J e,anette Mac­Donald,
Gene Raymond, George Brent, Frank McHugh, Phillips Holmes, Evelyn
Keys, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Palette, Dolores Costello Barrymore, George Ban­croft,
John Mack Brown, Roscoe Karns, Margaret Livingston, Allen J enkius,
Steffi Duna, John Carroll, Roscoe Ates, Colleen Moore, Virginia Bruse, Tullio
Carminati, Johnny Weismuller, Leo Carrillo, Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Paulette
Goddard, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Marg'aret Tallichet, Bill Gargan, Buddy
Ebsen, Randolph Scott, Richard Arlen, Patsy Kelly, Geraldine Dvorak, Grady
Sutton, Bu'ster Keaton, Mary Healy, Dorothy Lamour, Dorothy Dehn, Joe E.
Brown, Anna Neagle, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Harry Richman,
Leah Ray, Helen Morgan.
ORCHESTRA LEADERS AND SINGERS
Fred Waring, Ted Lewis, .Joe Venuti, Glen Miller, Frankie Maste-rs, Phil
Harris, George Olsen, Abe Lyman, Ran Wilde, Art Kassel, Shep Fields, Tom
Gerun, Al Donahue, Jack Fulton, Ben Bernie, Jimmy Grier, Lani McIntyre, Red
Ni'chols, Clyde Lucas, Rudy Valee, Rogu Wolfe Kahn, John E. Hamp, 'Ted
Weems, Guy Lombardo, Charles Barnet, Paul Whiteman, Smith Ballew, Benny
Meroff, Irving Aaronson, Henry Busse, Vincent Lopez, Lou Forbes, Jesse Staf­ford,
Buddy Rogers, Ethel Shutta, Harriet de Goff, Lynn Chalmers, Morton
Downey, Donna Dae, Ruth Etting, Miriam Grahame, Julie, Gibson, Momikai Hair,
Lilia Kipicona, Camille de Montis, The Boswell Sisters, Nick Lucas, Vivian
J ,anis, Joan Edwards, Aloha Kaimi, Mary Lee Kelly, Leo Feist.
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DANCE TEAMS
Ohaney and Fox, Jack and Edna Torrence, Crawford and Caskey, The Ran­dalls,
Peppino and Rhoda, Richard Stuart and Flora Lee, Mary Jane Moore and
Billy Revel, Miles .and Kover, Peppino and Mascotte.
AUTHORS, COLUMNISTS, ARTISTS
O. O. McIntyre, Will Rogers, Irvin S. Cobb, Louis Sc·bol, Ward Morehouse,
Heywood Broun, George Matthew Adams, Lucius Beebe, -Bruno Lessing, Francis
Wa:lace, G. Selmer Fougner, Roundy Cou.ghlin, Charles E. Crawford, Dorothy
Dix, Bob Davis, Julian Street, Phil Dunning, H. L. Mencken, Will Irwin, Elsie
Robinson, Abe Martin, Mrs. Laetitia Irwin, Zona Gale, Sheila Kay Smith, Chan­ning>
(Pollack, Bruce Gould, Beatrice Blackmer Gould, Beverly Smith, Wallace
Irwin, Monty Woolley, Garet Garret, Natalie Vivian Scott, Grace Thompson
Se,ton, "Andrea," Upton Close, Collinson Owen, Jo.hn A. Kennedy, T. M. Storke,
Eleanor Niercien, Donald Lawder, W'. Ward Smith, Cora, Rose and Bob Bro'Wn,
Mrs. William Brown Meloney, Elda Garbe, Ellis Hollums, Madame Marcel Tinayre,
Andre Demaison, General Perrier, Madame Saint Rene TaLlandier, Roark Brad­ford,
Kathleen McLaughlin, Frederick L. Collins, Doris Fleeson, Robert Ormond
Case, G. J . Korc'hendorfer, Elizabet,h Woody, Frank Finklehoffe, John Monks Jr.,
Jame,s NOI"lI1an Hall, Charle·s MacArthur, Louis Zara, Walter Davenport, Lilian
Hellman, Mildred Seydell, Hector Fuller, Allan Villiers, Alan Gould, Carton
Beals, Eleanor Patterson, J. Gortatowsky, Richard Harding Davis, William B.
Powell, Ralph Ketcham, Prunella Wood, Edward Astley, Alice Porter, Lloyd C.
Douglas, Courtney Riley Cooper, Leonard Q. Ross, George Sokolsky, Dorothy
Dawe, 'Basil Woon, G. Edward Davidson, John Henry Titus, Edith Johnson, DeLoss
'W'alker, Elliott White Springs, Sherwood Anderson, T.homas Wolfe, Pat O'Don­nell,
Hugh Baillie, Kent Cooper, Adolph Ochs, Joseph Pulitzer, Dr. Paul de
Kruif, Paul Reynaud, Rene Belbenoit, John Erskine, S'heila Hibben, Katherine
Darst, J. B. Priestley, Abel Green, Uncle Vic, Duncan Hines, Mike "The Snow­di'gger,"
J. K. of the Milwaukee Journal, Vera Brittain, J . Donnell Tilghman,
Sillman Evans, Clem Hearsey, Archibald MacLeish, Stark Young, Will Durant,
Steven Hannagan, Lloyd Gregory, Bill Cunningham, Frank Boeg'e, Paul Hollister,
Henry Beckett, Marc T. Greene, J. George Frederi·ck, Ellwood Douglass, Dorothy
Ducas, Adele Brown, Thomas Sugrue, Gwen Dew, Gwen Bristow, Bruce Manning,
Frances Bryson, Mrs. Louis Oppenheimer, Octavus Roy Cohen, Hyman Kaplan,
Franklin Lewis, Edw. F. Hebert, Herman B. D1eutsch, William Wiegand, Meigs O.
Frost, K. T. Knoblock, Franz Blom, Ken Gormin, Stanley Clisby Arthur, O. M.
Samuels, Lyle Saxon, Hendrick Van Loon, Rockwell Kent, Ifor Thomas, Dario
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Rappaport, Xavier Gonzales, Daniell Bishop, Carl Anderson, M. R. Cooper, O. W.
Chessman, Ivan Dmitri, Cecil -Beaton, Sydney Smith, Clifford McBride, Enrique
A:farez, McLelland Barclay, J. W. Ireland, Fitzpatrick, Ham Fisher, Moro Gon­zalez,
Ann Silverman, Sally Silverman, Harry Ludwig Rossol, Rube Goldberg,
John Held Jr., Otto Hagel, Cornelia Otis Skinner, R. H. Waldo.
CINEMA DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVES
Cecil B. DeMille, W. S. Van Dyke, Tod Browning, John Ford, Robert Florey,
Boris Petroff, Chester Miller, Edward Cline, William "Bill" Pine, Arthur Lubin,
Ralph Nelson, James A. McDonough, Jack McGowan, Lloyd Bacon, Herbert Wil­cox,
David Niven, Edwin Justin Mayer, Albert A. Kaufman, Edward Small,
George Cukor, Morris Ryskind, Ivan Kahn, Mort H. Singer, Henry King, Howard
Hawks, Victor Fleming, Jack Warner, James A. Fitzpatrick, Idwal Jones, R.oland
Reed, Hobe Erwin, John Darrow, Harry Rapf, Co:onel E. A. Sc·hiller, Jack Cher­tok,
Dick Mayberry, John Ridgeley, Albert Morkin, Donald Brigg's, MacH off­man
Jr., Alan Davis, John GaUaudet, John Payne, Regis. Toomey, Ben Piazza,
Irving Mills, Jimmy Starr, Julie Carter Starr, Lionel Keene, Henry Lichtig,
Robert Z. Leonard, Adolph Zukor, N. M. Schenck.
VISITORS FROM FAR AWAY LANDS
Jams'hed Dwishaw Petit from Bombay, India, Abdel Wahab Pasha from
Egypt, Mr. Josolaphas Introgra from Constantinople, Turkey, Mr. E. A. Hirsch
and Mr. Garland J. Hirsch from Manilla, Philip'pine Islands, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Fras.er from Jo.hannisburg, South Africa, A. W. Longfield from Melbourne, Aus­tralia'
Mr. R. J. McNicol from Shanghai, China, Mr. Bom Kavasp from Bombay,
India, Mr. Thorold Gunnerson from Melbourne, Austra.ia, Commandant J. J. A.
Keu·chenius Curacao Dutch West Indies, Aina Bjorklund from Stockholm, Sweden.
In compiling this list we have endeavored to include all of our distinguished
visitors. If we have forgotten anyone we are sorry for the unintentional omission.
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Pl'Iesident Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To Antoine's- It's glood to be back again."
Ex-President Calvin Coolidge
"Deep appreciation for Antoine's."
Alfred M. Landon
"To Roy Alciatore-With sincere delight at your real hosptiality and the
opportunity of visiting you again."
Elliott Roosevelt
"May I express my deep appreciation for a very rare experience, which will .
be long remembered. Never has it been my experience· to enjoy such fine fare."
Herbert Hoover II
"When you want real food go to Antoine's- When you want real life go to
New Orleans."
O. O. McIntyre
In New York Day by Day
"I, too, have enjoyed myself at the famous Antoine's and hope to again."
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Julian Street
Gourmet and Author of "Abroad at Home," "Wines," "Where Paris Dines," Etc.
"I am old enough to remember some of the historic restaurants of the
world-The Cafe Anglais, Voisin, and Paillard (which are no more) in ,Paris, and
the Tour d'Argent in the days of the famous Frederic. I remember the Carlton
in London when Escoffier was Chef, and Lhardi's in Madrid. In New York I
knew Delmonico's, Sherry's, Rector's and J. -E. Martin's in their prime. Great
places all of them. Antoine's resembles none of these in ,style and settin,g, for
like every great restaurant, it has a style ·of its own. Its age, its picturesque­ness,
j ~. s high culinary traditions, and its record of practically a century under
the management of successive generations of the same family, make it entirely
unique. It is more than a first-rate restaurant in New Orleans. It is un
American institution, an establishment of which the whole country may be
proud."
Herman B. Deutsch
Author-"The Incredible Yanqui," "The Wedge," Etc.
"To Roy Alciatore whom I acknowledge as a master and supreme artist in
his line."
Count Marcel Le Besac
"Now I am convinced. At Antoine's one eats and drinks just like in
France."
Irvin Cobb
Author.
"What Jules can do to oysters and fish and various other things that make
up a meal, is what the cooks must do to them in heaven."
George E. Sokolsl{y
London Times
"The very best dinner I have eaten east of Shanghai, and then equal to the
Lun'g Foo Soo, which to epicures is heaven."
H. L. Menc1{en
"Mr. Alciatore: Like every other visitor who has been in your restaurant
remember it with pleasure."
Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern
"I have found a truly great restaurant in North America."
Meigs O. Frost
Author- "A MarineTells It To Me," Etc.
"To Jules Alciatore of Antoine.'s cooking is an art. As a poet blends words
to produce a sonnet; he blends ingredients to pro,duce a sauce."
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W. A. Ireland
Columbus, Ohio, Evening Dispatch
"If I had been Lafitte the pirate I would have seized the culinary treasurers
of Antoine's and not wasted my time at sea."
Abe Martin
Colu1nnist
"This place beats Brown country all holler."
Natali e Vivian Scott
Modern Priscilla
"No voice, no lute, no pipe there, and no orchestra. But-what is so little
emphasized in modern restaurants- food in its most glorified form; quiet in
which to enjoy it, and leisure."
Hugih Baillie
President United Press
"Eureka. T his is the food and wine mood I have been attempting to re­capture
ever since 1921, when I last had such an experience at the Cafe
Cathedral in Rouen. Congratulations, Roy."
K. T. Knoblock
Author- "There's Been Murder Done," Etc.
"There has been no decline in Antoine'S standards. All over the w.()rld
Antoine's is known, and from all over the world gourmets and grreat men come
to New Orleans to dine at Antoine's."
J oh n Rin g1in g
"Superior Cuisine in unique surroundings. Best wishers to Jules, Roy and
Escoffier."
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The Marquis of Donegall
Special Correspondent London Daily Mail
"Chez Antoine j'ai mange' miex qu'a Paris- et helas fort mieux qu'on ne
puis mana'ger a Londres. And that's That!"
Clem Hearsey
N. Y. Morning Telegraph
"Mention Antoine's on the boulevards of Paris, the Strand of London, the
Great White Way of New York, or in any American city where the bon vivant is
to be found, and lips will smack in pleasant remembrances."
Ethel Barrymore
"Since my first visit to Antoine's, when I was 14 years old, it has been the
only restaurant in the world for me."
I. W. Kanarek
Memphis, Tenn.
"I had dinner in your restaurant the othe·r evening, and received one of your
booklets. I found therein quotations from a lot of celebrities, praising your
meals and service. I found nothing had been said by non-celebrities.
"And so in behalf of that vast unspoken multitude, want to say that the
food that you serve in your joint-is damn good stuff!"
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Sugg~stions
W,hile it would take a volume to mention the
hundreds of specialties offered to the e'picure at An­toine's,
it is worth while singling out a few which
have often been imitated but never duplicated.
Huitres en Coquille a La Rockefeller
Oysters baked in their shells with such rich ingredients that
the name of the Multi-Millionaire was borrowed to indicate their
value. This dish made its debut to the world from the kitchens
of Antoine.
Bisque d'Ecrevisses a La Cardinal
A soup made of crayfish boiled in white wine and subsequently pounded
into a pulp with an addition of cream, aromatic herbs and vegetables.
P()II1lpano en Papillotte 1 Succulent Pompano with a delicious sauce cooked in a paper bag
in order to retain the flavor.
Pomrnes Soufflees
Puffed potatoes which are the one new thing under the sun.
Poulet Chanteclair
Chicken marinated in red wine and cooked in such a manner as
to impart a most distinctive flavor.
Crepes Suzette
The famous French pancakes burned with brandy and liqueurs,
served a La Antoine.
Cafe Brulot Diabolique
Black coffee burned with cognac and flavoured with spices.
Antoine's exclusive creations.
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In the Spring' of the Year 1940' ANTOINE'S will celebrate t,he complet:
10'0' years of uninterrupted service to the Gourmets of the world, under
successive 'generations of the Alciatore family, father, son and grandson.
our pleasure to extend to you an invitation to visit Antoine.'s during thi
Centennial Celebration.
:fl3elteve 11 t ~r lAot
Since Antoine's restaurant was founded in 1840' the antique chand
equipped with old-fashioned gas mantels have been used to heat the main
room in even the coldest winters. No other heaters have been use,d.
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