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...ball in the Emerson Hotel, the pace picked up. Zantzinger stung a Negro bellhop's rear with his cane. After a few bourbons and ginger at the open bar, he asked a Negro waitress, Mrs. Ethel Hill, 30, something about a firemen's fund. She said she did not know what he meant. "Don't say no to me, you nigger, say no, sir," said Zantzinger. He flailed her with the cane. She fled to the kitchen...
...scandalously funny how-he-caught-her-with-the-other-man scene, in which the dentist blandly fails to catch on, that takes place in an Amsterdam hotel room on and around twin brass beds, and the triangle is augmented by a Dutch dental supply manufacturer and a bellhop translator. What follows is a kind of bilingual What's My Line? panel quiz that all by itself makes the evening worth its comic weight in inflated Broadway pennies...
Died. Harry Balogh, 70, boxing's "Marquis of Malaprop," whose bullhorn ring announcements rattled U.S. stadiums for some 35 purple years; following surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime bellhop from the Lower East Side, Balogh brought "class" to his profession by introducing the soup-and-fish and the comparative adjective (his variation on the ungrammatical "best-man-win" theme: "May the better participant emerge triumphant"), in 1935 capped a lifelong battle against race hate by imploring an inflamed crowd at the Primo Carnera-Joe Louis bout: "Leave us all view this contest without anchor or prejudism...
...restaurateurs, clothiers and Shriners; the worst are doctors, Lions Club members, traveling salesmen and politicians. Cadillac owners and people with lots of luggage tend to be poor tippers. And perhaps no one is held lower than the "sanitation specialist." the hotel guest who hides in the bathroom when the bellhop arrives with the suitcases...
...Angeles. There a teacher in the public school, which he was attending to learn English, noticed how skillfully he drew the little figures to illustrate maps. The teacher got him into the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. Though he still had to work as a bellhop in winter and a fruit picker in summer, Kuniyoshi's career as a painter had begun...