In the Persian Room

Over its forty-one-year run, the Persian Room showcased a wide variety of talent. In addition to the performers illustrated here, the formidable list also included Eddy Duchin, Kitty Carlisle, the Mills Brothers, Bob Fosse, Jane Powell, Victor Borge, Marge and Gower Champion, Lillian Roth, Eddie Fisher, Henny Youngman, Abbe Lane and Xavier Cugat, the McGuire Sisters, the Lettermen, Connie Stevens, Dinah Shore, Leslie Gore, Shirley Bassey, Vic Damone, Florence Henderson, Doc Severinsen, Lainie Kazan, Dusty Springfield, and Liza Minnelli.

In addition to television and radio broadcasts, a number of recordings were made in the room, shown on the following pages.

Clockwise from top left: Bob Hope amusing friends onstage, Liberace with Ted Straeter (the room’s bandleader), a tent card from the fall of 1971, and Dorothy Kilgallen at a charity auction.

Tent cards from the 1950s.

Newspaper ads and record jacket art for songbirds Ethel Merman and Eartha Kitt (who also made a recording in the room).

Record jacket art from recordings made in the 1950s and 1960s.