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unusual facts about The Ritz



Eyck Zimmer

He then worked in a number of well-known hotels in Europe, Palasthotel (East Berlin), Grand Hotel Regina (Grindelwald, Switzerland), The Dorchester (Mayfair, London), The Berkeley (London), The Lanesborough (London), Claridge's (London), The Ritz (London), Choupana Hills in Madeira and the Lowry Hotel in Manchester, UK.

Robert Drivas

These included playwrights Terrence McNally, whose play The Ritz he directed in 1975, and Edward Albee, who directed Drivas in the 1983 premiere of Albee's harshly received play The Man Who Had Three Arms.

Terry Riordan

Riordan was also in the 2007 Broadway revival, The Ritz.


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Chef salad

It's possible that the inclusion of Thousand Island dressing is also linked to the Ritz, since the hotel also introduced the dressing to New York.

Ernesto Barba

In this spirit, he retained Japanese pop artist Tadanori Yokoo to design the interiors of one important restaurant in the Ritz Taipei.

Fernand Roberge

In 1977, Roberge became the first French Canadian to be chief executive officer of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal and held the post for over 12 years.

Friendship Heights

The neighborhood also supports a number of offices, including the corporate headquarters of insurance giant GEICO (originally Government Employees Insurance Company) and the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain, and a concentration of broadcast media including the studios of WMAL, WMAL-FM, and WTTG (Fox 5).

IceStone

IceStone has developed its customer base to include Starbucks, NASA, the Ritz-Carlton, Whole Foods, and Amazon.

King of the Ritz

King of the Ritz is a 1933 British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and Herbert Smith and starring Stanley Lupino, Betty Stockfeld and Hugh Wakefield.

Lorenzo Albacete

As Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker) has noted: "Lorenzo Albacete is one of a kind, and so is God at the Ritz. The book, like the monsignor, crackles with humor, warmth, and intellectual excitement. Reading it is like having a stay-up-all-night, jump-out-of-your-chair, have-another-double-espresso marathon conversation with one of the world's most swashbuckling talkers. Conversation, hell-this is a Papal bull session!"

Millennium Place

This new development completes the final chapter of Boston’s Avery Street corridor development, which includes the Ritz Carlton Hotel and two Tower residences, Sports Club/LA and the AMC Loews Boston Common movie theater.

Molly Pitcher Club

Although they had nation aspirations, the group was limited to New York and held meetings at the Ritz Carlton Hotel and Delmonico's.

Neil Rushton

He then went on to found the Heart of England Soul Club (HESC) and organise and promote hugely successful Northern soul and Jazz Funk "all-dayers" at Tiffany's in Coalville, Leicestershire and later The Ritz in Manchester and Blackpool Mecca.

Newbury Street

Sports journalist Heywood Hale Broun told the story of proudly mentioning that his publisher had gotten him a room at "the Ritz," an honor accorded only to stars.

Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia

The American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan (Ambidjan) was established on February 27, 1934, at a meeting held in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City.

Philadelphia Film Festival

The festival is held at seven different venues throughout the Greater Philadelphia Area, including, The Ritz 5, Ritz East, International House, Music Theater and The Annenberg Center.

Ritz Dakota Digital

The Ritz Dakota Digital is a type of point-and-shoot digital camera, introduced in July of 2003, and sold by the Ritz Camera Centers.

Ritz Theatre

Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, Sanford, Seminole County, Florida, formerly the Ritz Theater, the Milane Theatre, and the Helen Stairs Theatre

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

On 26 August 2013, members of the Filipino diaspora protested at The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles and JW Marriott Hotels at L.A. Live against the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam.

In October, 2011, Angella Reid, the General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City, Arlington, Virginia was appointed as White House Chief Usher, becoming the first woman to serve in that post.

Ryan J. Davis

The judges are Seth Rudetsky (Rhapsody in Seth, Chatterbox, The Ritz), Hunter Bell, and Susan Blackwell.

Slide on Live: Plugged in and Standing

It was recorded at The Ritz in New York, at the Avalon in Boston and at the Budokan in Tokyo.

Spago

Additional Spagos have opened at The Forum Shops at Caesars on the Las Vegas Strip, at Four Seasons Resort Maui (Maui, Hawaii in 2001), and as the Spago Beaver Creek in the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Avon, Colorado.

Taj Boston

Wyner received permission from the Hôtel Ritz Paris and the US-based Ritz Carlton Investing Company, founded by Albert Keller, to use the Ritz Carlton name and the Ritz Carlton Boston opened on May 19, 1927.

After more than a year of legal work, Hale and Dorr succeeded at clearing the bond obligations, and in October 1964 Blakeley and associates Paul Hellmuth and Charles Spaulding acquired the Ritz-Carlton Boston for $3.8 million.

The Cosmopolitans

The group performed at some of New York's most high-profile rock clubs - including Hurrah, Max's Kansas City, the Mudd Club, the Ritz, the original Peppermint Lounge, and Irving Plaza - and toured up and down the East Coast.

U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 32

The highway progresses eastward from Highway 32 near the town of Red Hook (in the community of Nazareth), providing access to several Great Bay resorts, including the Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas.

Weymouth Pavilion

Finally, the Pavilion re-opened to the public in May 1950 under a new name, The Ritz Theatre, and the first film shown to the public was The Forsyte Saga.

White House Chief Usher

The current and ninth Chief Usher is Angella Reid, a former general manager of the Ritz-Carlton at Pentagon City, Virginia.