Word: bellhops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weak, ineffective son of a futile family escapes from the flatness of their life by getting a job as "bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character...
...Bellhop to the World...
...college, "bellhop to the world...
...quartet singing of the walters--a little touch which is at present rather unusual in musical comedy, but none the less pleasant when found there. As comedians, Florence Hope as the maid, Florence Morrison as Mrs. Thompson of Mrs. Thompson's boarding house, and Ted McNamara as the bellhop, easily passed the qualifying round...