The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-09
Quaint Inns
Favored by
Stage Folk
Luncheon Rendezvous
Offer Appetizing
DelicacieS.
BY HELEN WORDEN
Times Special Writer

~ fashionable summer resort has
its favorite lunching and dining
place. Sometimes it's an old inn.
Often IL Is a little road house or
pension.
Leon Rothier Of the Metropolitan
Opera. recently has opened a pen
sion at yorktown Heights that Is
attracting a good deal Of local at
tention.
The Heights are in Westch ester
County, suburb Of New York
which abounds in estates owned by
people who know good food. NJ.
Rothier serves delicious luncneons
and dinners. His wife does all Of
the cooking. and they have dec
Grated the house themselves. He
makes it his business to welcome ev-
erv guest himself.
M. ROthier has the Endorsement
OF Edward Johnson" Georgette Ny
rielle tells me. His idea is to es-
tablish 4 sort Of music community
center, where pupils could pass the
summer studying. Lily POns is 20
ing TO give a tea at his house"
Sings French Songs
Mile Nyrielle is the daughter OF
the Nine. Blanche who bakes the
wedding cakes. She sings French
songs.
Yorktown Heights is near Mt.
Kisco. Among the summer residents
OF the neighbOrhOod are Mr.. and
Mrs. Langhorne Gibson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Brewster. Mr.. and Mrs.
William FahneStock. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gustavus Towne Kirby, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Vanderlip and Helen
Clay Prick.
private pension. with more of
theatrical rather than musical slant
to it, is run for the benefit of Mt.
KriScO's summer stock company at
the Guest House, on Lawrence
Farms, which I visited recently.
LaWelee futile, the frail, sweet
faced wife of Day Tuttle, one of the
directors of the WeStchester Players
boards the troupe. She does it so
cleverly that the actors call it per-
petual house party.
A Rare Combination
Day really has been a director
since he was 2" his mother, Mrs.
Frank Day Tuttel, Bellport, l.. l.,
writes me- Always playing theater
and manipulating his own home
made puppets. Much of Days success,
I feel sure. should be credited to-
Laurelee. In spite of the mOther-in-
law tradition, 1 adore her
Mrs. William L. Bibb. 410 Park-av,
who is spending the summer at East
Hampton. writes that she and her
husband have discovered that rare
combination in America small
inn. with both atmosphere and de-
liCious food"
Mrs Harry L. Hamlin. 6 E. Sind
ST. runs it. We lunch under a CEN
tury-Old black walnut tree says
Mrs. Bibb. If you should be motor
ing in this vicinity it will give us
much pleasure to welcome you and
offer whatever refreshments the
hour indicates"
Southern Food a Speciality
The wedding of Mr. Bibbs daugh-
ter. Kate Young, at st. James
Church. was one of the brilliant
events of the June season. Mrs. Bib
is a southerner. She comes from
Birmingham. Ala. where the art of
cooking is practised.
Two Park-av boyS-young Kauf-
man and Henry recently
opened a novel roadhouSe on
QueenS-blvd. near Forest Hills.
called DE South" which SpecialiZes
in southern dishes.
All of the buildings are white
washed. Southern mammies do the
cooking. Tie mattresses are dressed
in gingham frOckS. wear bandanna
handkerchietS around their heads,
and the featured dish is fried chick
en- and cream gravy.
The place has been running only
a month. More buildings are being
added and a dance floor put in Mr.
Kaufman'S wife. Patricia MallinSon,
- pay AAlk al NAOA n NJ ltOAUo ItAl v.
not far from Mount KiSco. She
appears with the Fortnightly Play
ers.
Seventeenth Century Inn
The Stage Coach Inn is the stand
by of the Locust Valley players and
summer residents. It was built in
the late seventeenth century for
Quaker seminary. William Jay
Robinson saw its possibilities as an
inn. He bought the place several
years ago. dressed himself up as a
Colonial host and filled the quaint
early American house with Colonial
furniture and served Colonial dishes.
When Mr.. Robinson died Harry Bigg
became manager. He still features
the recipes that made the inn
famOuS-tOaSted Holsters. frizzled
chicken. love apple soup. butter ball
steak. fruit jubilo chicken Fred
erickburg, hunter steak and stirrup
cup
Stage Coach Inn adjoinS the Old
Darn where the Locust Valley Stock
Company holds its plays. Fashion
able North Shore Long Island
patronizes both places.
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