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...divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away???and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous," who often want bags opened...
Roused, the chief of police issued an order that no more licenses will be granted to "endurance freaks" of any kind. Sadly the 100 "hunger artists" melted away???all but one. He, persistent and nimble of thought, demanded a license "merely to eat in public"?to eat a whole 300-pound pig within ten days. Not to be thus circumvented, the officials ruled that "eating, in this sense, constitutes a feat of endurance...
...When a man is very sick or seriously injured, he is sent to the Henry Ford Hospital, some three miles away???not in a modern comfortable ambulance. The too frequent calls of the ambulance would not look well in public, and so a Ford sedan is fitted up with secret doors in the back and just a driver's seat and space for a stretcher...
...deserves all the usual reviewer's adjectives beginning in "s." It is smart and suave and sophisticated and sparkling?as amusing an English comedy as Manhattan has seen in some time. The plot turns about one of those kisses that are administered just to pass the time away???this time by a pleasant young gentleman, who thinks his wife is abroad, to a pretty girl, slightly under the influence of her own voice singing a love song. The wife discovers the kissers?and complications begin. Of course all are finally reconciled after many humorous misadventures that offer Cyril Maude...