..One she""d bought herself?" He proposed seeing her the following day at 5:00 pm "in he funny Yellow Room where they dance.He scans his revolving card-index file for the phone number of Mr.Vanderhof (Willard Waterman) of Public Relations - positioned in another glass-enclosed cubicle on another floor - and phones him o cancel the booking, but is told: "Cancel? But it""s her birthday - I already ordered the cake.Hawks reprised this thematic element inTo Have and Have Not (1944)with Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.[Note: The well-known scandal at the start of he century of actor Charlie Chaplin""s second marriage and subsequent divorce to under-age actress Lolita McMurry may have been the original reference point for Nabokov""s novel.