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place, but Mme. America Galli (who, by the way, was born here) does not keep a guest book and cannot recall all of them.

Mme. Galli's is of particular interest to us, however, because nowhere this side of Naples can you get better spaghetti. It is served with a sauce that has made the house famous, the recipe of which old Mme. Galli refused to sell to the Heinz company for a not unflattering figure. They have no menu here, the customer merely being asked his choice of entrees -- chicken, squab, filet mignon, or lamb chops. The whole dinner includes an appetizer, soup, spaghetti, the entree, salad, cheese and apples, or the delicious Italian ice cream, spumoni. As prepared by Chef Orazio Monti, who possesses the Galli family secrets in regard to cuisine, this dinner explains the reason why so many notable people are seen here almost any evening.

Mme. Galli's Italian

18 East Illinois Street

Open for luncheon and dinner

Table d'hote only. Luncheon, 75 cents, Dinner, $1.50

Maitresse d'hotel: Mme. America Galli


NEW COLLEGE INN

Food and Entertainment a la By field

Bouillabaisse a la Marseillaise! If you have ever tasted this famed Mediterranean fish stew, brought to perfection by the chefs of Prunier's in Paris, you have come the nearest to eating the sort of food our dear departed presumably eat in heaven. It is the rarest of sea food delicacies and its memory remains on your palate for days. But you don't have to go to Paris to get it -- thanks to the Byfield brothers, proprietors of the Hotel Sherman, and known from Broadway to the Loop as the most genial and enterprising of hosts.

For in their New College Inn, in the basement of the

Hotel Sherman, they have installed M. Jean Gazabat as head chef -- M. Jean himself, formerly of Maison Prunier's and the Cafe de Paris, two of the leading dining places in Gay Paree. Monsieur Jean's genius in the preparation of sea foods, learned in the kitchens of Prunier's, has already put the College I

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