Word: bellhopping
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...stranger to Manhattan was Negro Anderson. Once a self-educated San Francisco bellhop, he wrote an autobiographical play called Appearances, got it produced on Broadway in 1925. Called "clean" by kindly critics, it ran for three weeks, but did better in London. He began giving religio-psychological lectures, acquired a following at his "Tea Talks" at the Mayfair Hotel. He debated in Queen's Hall on "Christianity v. Spiritualism" with famed Journalist Hannen Swaffer. Last year Negro Anderson opened a temperance bar. His followers are planning to build a Temple dedicated to his message, which is simply...
...rides the good race for Shirley Grey. Nydia Westman and Donald Kerr are teamed as a talkative hotel clerk and telephone operator. The brighter moments are furnished by Jack Oakie as a radio announcer with an overpowering weakness for crooning at crucial moments, and Clarence Muse as a Negro bellhop...
...Manhattan, the manager of the Hotel Commodore sent a bellhop to a nearby church to exchange bills for silver from the collection plate. A clerk in a Schulte cigar store said he had enough change for a week. ''But, for God's sake don't mention it. . . . You'll have all the other Schulte managers sending for it." Rich folk entered automats, got 20 nickels, ate nothing. Change was plentiful in the subways. "We're taking the place of them banksters," boasted an Interborough boothman...
...Underneath the pier were fishnets. The manager of the beer garden fed the Marxes only fish, because it was cheapest on his menu. Next season, Mrs. Marx thought that Harpo also was fitted for her act. She recalled him from the Seville Hotel, in Manhattan, where he was a bellhop. Unable to think of anything for Harpo to say, she had him try some of his grandfather's tricks. When the Marxes were performing in Waukegan, Ill., they were surprised to hear, in the orchestra pit, the piano playing of their brother Chico. He had been touring the country...
Blonde Crazy (Warner) shows a few of the tricks whereby an enterprising bellhop, equipped with light lingers and curly hair, can live handsomely on his wits. The bellhop (James Cagney) is so much interested in dishonesty that he keeps a scrapbook of variations of the badger game, methods of stealing diamond bracelets, false money transactions and likely methods of beating persons who think they can beat the races. By the practice of these wiles, he manages to keep luxurious quarters in the best hotels, preying mostly upon persons no more honest but less versatile than himself...