Herman Hover

Herman Hover. Self: The Colgate Comedy Hour. Famed nightclub owner Herman Hover dropped out of Columbia Law School in the 1930s to manage a speakeasy. He then got into "show business" as a publicity agent for Broadway producer Earl Carroll (he took credit for coming up with the motto for Carroll's Broadway and Hollywood theaters, "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world"). In 1942 he bought Ciro's,...