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...head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel's beautician. She runs around tripping over chairs, showing her well-turned calves. One line brought down the house. Says Queenie sidling up to Brutus: "Hello, honey." Sniffs Brutus: "Honey? Why, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Laughter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...gastronomic comment on amorous disillusionment, "Love is Like a Pickle in a Barrel," a modern love ballad, "Let's Agree to Disagree," and an original tango written and played on the accordion with the orchestra by tennist David S. Burt '40, entitled "La Camarisita" (The Cute Little Chambermaid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtains Rise on "Give, Baby, Give" Tomorrow In First Public Showing | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...going to be killed-all,'' wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Barcelona Horrors | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...names of Jack Morgan and Wes S. Glenn. As Jack Morgan he shortly turned up in New Orleans, married a pretty 17-year-old laborer's daughter named Lillian Casanova, took her back to California where the pair led a hand-to-mouth existence working as bellhop and chambermaid in hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Paradise Lost | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union of Operating Engineers shared two bedrooms and a parlor at $30. Some of the labormen who brought their wives & children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fighting Machine | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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