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C20 Asbury Park Oct. 27, 1983 Pavildes kept The Stork Club flying Voice of Broadway Dec. 3 DAVID BROMBERG October 28 JUDY COLLINS November 10th STANLEY CLARKE GEORGE DUKE Jack O'Brian Oct. 29 30 Dec. 14-18 THE NUTCRACKER SUITE November 12th The Storyteller TOM T.

HALL GEORGE CARLIN W. IrJ Nov. 19 IMUS Doe. 2t thru New Year- Ev Thonmy Line Show emote hnpereonatoT Review Dinner Show Open Bar Dancing in $37.50 p. post-Prohibition months until one day Walter Winchell walked in.

Walter's arrival at 3 E. 53rd St. was an event in saloon annals somewhere among the discoveries of fire, the wheel, penicillin, cybernetics, America. Ouiskie in Ireland, 86-proof toasts in Scotland, and television. Sherman Billingsley founded the Stork but Walter Winchell retroactively created it.

All in 24 hours. On his Sunday night radio newscast not only then the top-rated (by Crosley) news program in history, but the highest-rated network show of any sort the flamboyant bulletin shooter raved about the Stork, called it "The New Yorkiest spot in town," and followed the same enthusiastic tack with his next-morning top-read gossip column in the sadly now long-gone Daily Mirror. The Stork Club became an instant institution. Soon Sherman couldn't keep up the personal attention he'd given to all. Ergo, enter Gregory Pavlides: The handsome little Greek emigre already had Sherman's trust and confidence and for decades trailed several feet behind Sherman, fulfilling instructions by secret signals: a casual tug of the left ear meant "A bottle of champagne for this table." The polite rub of his nose meant "Buy a round of whatev er they're having." A tug on the lapel sent a flagon of expensive perfume to a lady, red suspenders to her gentleman.

A murmured drinks on the owner to a whole section Sherm had a genius for anticipating their desire to leave; whereupon they would remain and buy more. Gregory Pavlides did it all and much more. He was invaluable to Sherman, stayed right at the Stork until Billingsley died. He tried living again in his native Greece but that was too far from his beloved Stork Club. When the Stork was torn down, CBS czar Bill Paley built the tiny park where the Stork once reigned.

Gregory visited there every afternoon, sat and ruminated his decades-long career as Sherman's "Shadow." It helped that Paley Park, named in honor of the CBS chairman's father, served the best hotdogs in town; and Coke. But no tugged left ear for champagne, no itchy round of drinks, no perfume for miladies nor red firemen's braces the lads. Just great memories. That great saloon era died when Sherman and the Stork died, soon joined by El Morocco's classy proprietor John Perona. Jack O'Brian's syndicated column appears Monday through Friday.

NEW YORK Gregory Pavildes died the other day; who was he? Gregory had a crucial competence in his certainly unique job a saloon generation or two ago. He was in his 70s when he died but never looked his age. When young he looked older; old, he maintained the same ageless visage, aspect, niceness, courtly behavior as the well-mannered perambulating centerpole of the most famous Manhattan nightclub in the histories of status, snobbism, the real not the false tinsel. Folks vied for the few supremely preferable tables in this most favored chic saloon ever; probably anywhere. It of course, The Stork Gub, Sherman Billingsley proprietor.

The Stork's shimmering life began as a Prohibition speakeasy owned by Sherman Billingsley who had come down from The Bronx after rum-running from Oklahoma where he'd been a bootlegger; not "alleged," but openly, publicly proud of his personal service to the also-illegal consumers of his expensively imported spirits, delivered by speedboats and even small ships, from France with vintage champagne, Canada with the best-labeled ryes, Scotland with the finest-proof Scotch, the Bahamas and Cuba with rum. Gin, Sherman 'made himself. Nov. 3rd Nov. 6th JERRY 1 1 VALE I with s8 Vinnif Martin When Prohibition folded its tents and the country went wet, Sherman followed with an ideally located expansion of his architectural and economic ambitions and expanded his last Vol-stead-era playpen at the ideal midtown location, at 3 E.

53rd St. Frank Costello, organized crime's oddly semi-respected "prime minister," was Sherman's actual founding partner until the Stork's clientele grew heavily into the Big Town's circle of square and substantial business leaders as well as showbiz hierarchs from Hollywood, Broadway, London's West End even the FBI director John Edgar Hoover. The cautious Costello then willingly cut his connections with Sherman; for a tidy parting gift of considerable cash, of course. The Stork pikered along for a few Children's Theatre Nov. 19, 20, 26, 27 "Alice in Wonderland" Dec.

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Miss Collins has since released more than 20 albums and has helped advance the careers of songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman and Leonard Cohen by recording their works. Among Miss Collins' most well-known recordings are "Both Sides Now," "Someday Soon," "Amazing Grace," "Cook With Honey," "Send in the Clowns" and "Hard Times for Lovers." Tickets fror Miss Collins' appearance are $25 for dinner and show, $17.50 for the show only. Reserva- tions are available from the Club Bene. Deaf actress to play lead in ishow Nov. 5 NEW BRUNSWICK The George Street Playhouse will open its 10th anniversary season Nov.

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