We return to the tale this year, with the nightclubbing at Novello's where the boys met the girls. Novello's qualifies as a supper club, according to supper club maven Ron Faiola, and he also confers that status on the Carousel Club in New York City (doesn't that interfere with the change of trains in New York, as well as to the protagonists being short on funds??) and he then notes that when the guys get to their former commander's lodge in Vermont, their server delivers a relish tray. Can't get more Wisconsin than "radishes, black and green olives, and celery," even in Vermont. Maybe the cheddar was from Wisconsin, too.
That supper club book also clarifies something I noted in the earlier post, about Milwaukee's Frenchy's as very different from your canonical Wisconsin supper club. "Didn't strike me as belonging to the same category as Clifford's Supper Club, still in business with the same neon sign they had when your Superintendent was in grade school, along Forest Home Avenue in Hales Corners." Shows what I know. "Clifford's Supper Club owner Clifford Schill bought Frenchy's, kept the name, but changed the concept to Dixieland." That didn't end well.
Now I'm checking this week's television listings to see whether White Christmas will be on air somewhere. I would like to see listings for Bells of St. Mary's and Going My Way, which used to be seasonal regulars.
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