Sunset & Shirley Temple Cocktails (1950)

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   The "Sunset" cocktail is somewhat like the "Comopolitan" in that...just a
minute!  ("Jen, Sarah Jessica has had too many and you should take her home!")
 Sorry--these New York City women go crazy on Christmas.
   The following appears to be of interest for both cocktails:


  15 February 1950, WAUKESHA DAILY FREEMAN (Waukesha, WIsconsin), pg. 7, col.
1:
_He Says Women Drink_
_Far More Than Men Do_
   SAN FRANCISCO (UP)--Eastern men prefer Scotch whiskey, Westerners prefer
bourbon--but women drink more than men and like anything alcoholic.
   That's the opinion of John H. Hensley, manager of the Hotel Mark Hopkins'
famous Top of the Mark cocktail lounge.  Hensley has been catering to people's
tastes for potables for 20 years and feels (Col. 2--ed.) he knows a thing or
two about drinking.
(...)
   The so-called weaker sex also specializes in consuming, in great
quantities, the fancier drinks, Hensley said.  The "Sunset," a Mark special with vodka,
lime juice and fresh strawberries, is a female favorite.
   "But the one they like best," Hensley said, "is the 'Saint Petersburg.'"
   The St. Pete, made in a large brandy snifter glass, is a wicked concoction
of two shots of Grand Marnier, a liqueur which tastes a little like
orange-flavored brandy, plus two shots of Napoleon brandy and the rest of the glass
filled with champagne poured over cracked ice.
_Few Basic Favorites_
   Hensley estimated there are 5,000 possible alcoholic combinations.  Top of
the Mark sticks pretty much to 150 basic cocktails--although Hensley said the
favorites with bar habitues everywhere are Martinis, Manhattans, whiskey
sours and Tom Collins.
   One of the most popular drinks in the sky room bistro is non-alcoholic.
Made of fresh fruits and juices and ginger ale especially for 'teen-agers who
frequent the lounge, the Mark once called it the "Shirley Temple."
   After Miss Temple divorced her husband, John Agar, the hotel decided the
name no longer was appropriate and that the movie star was a bit mature for the
bobby-sox set.  So the drink was changed to the "Shari Robinson," the name of
another young Hollywood starlet.