Opened in 1936 as a chili parlor-cum-barbecue joint by ex-vaudevillean Dave Chasen and his wife, Maude (with Harold Ross of The New Yorker as their backer), Chasen’s had grown into a clubby ...

Mrs. Chasen, a strict, tyrannical woman and a a bit hysterical, who takes care of finding a wife for his son. But when Harold meets Maude, "80 year old princess", nonconformist and full of life ...