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Show A $2,000,000 DLNXER ITow would you like to prepare a t-.vo-million-dollar dinner? Chef Le-ony Le-ony Pcrouet, the culinary wizard of the Hotel Commodore, New York, has that unique distinction. A few nights ago a thousand men and women wo-men representing a dinner that actually ac-tually cost but 22c per person to prepare, pre-pare, luit in reality cost one thousand thous-and per plate for the Million Dollar Dinner, but before it was-over it was a two million dollar dinner. The menu consisted of: . Stowed Rice Uread Cocoa It waa the most unique dinner ever ev-er given in the Pershing Square hos-telery. hos-telery. The dinner was given by Gen John J. Pershing, Franklin K. Lane and Herbert Hoover in order to visualize vis-ualize the people of-Europe the sum of effort of the people of New York. There were present In spirit "invisible "invis-ible guests" 350,000 starving and diseased children of Eastern and Cen tral Europe which New Y"ork provided pro-vided for. Chef Derouet has prepared pre-pared many wonderful banquets, not only for America's richest financiers but for royalty as well. He was chef to His Magesty, King Albert of Belgium, Bel-gium, when the King and Queen Elizabeth El-izabeth visited America. His simple little menu at the "Invisible Guest" dinner is perhaps the most wonderful wonder-ful b hu Tr prprd. |