Word: chef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shadows of the South Seas, Tarzau the Ape Man, The Prizefighter and the Lady), is the director whom Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assigns regularly to nature stories or, by analogy, pictures with leading men like Johnny Weissmuller or Max Baer. For Eskimo, he and a staff of 42 assistants including Chef Emile Ottinger of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel spent $1.500,000 and nine months on location at Teller, Alaska, 100 mi. below the Arctic Circle. Less courageous than they appear to be in the picture, the Eskimo extras whom Van Dyke hired at $5 per day ran away after seeing...
...people had any idea of opposing his program. In Convention Hall he declared: "There was so much tom-tom writing in the papers out here that I thought it well to make a swing around the circle. It was altogether unnecessary." He told the story of the New York chef who hastened out to the Midwest because "some big butter-&-egg man of those days" informed him there were "millions of bullfrogs" on his ranch. "He knew that because he heard them filling the night with their ke-dunking. Well, you know the rest. Like the lone coyote-like William...
Pierre Hamp, proletarian (as opposed to propagandist) author, has had a queer and difficult apprenticeship in his profession. In Kitchen Prelude, the story of his youth, he tells what it was like to be a pastry-cook's helper in Paris, a chef's assistant behind such glittering faqades as Marguery's Restaurant and London's Savoy Hotel...
...about the flower beds in Central Park, he would venture through the editorial offices, exchanging nods with reporters whose names he did not know, looking grateful for their recognition. Hardly ever did he go up to his penthouse on the roof of the Post building in which a French chef prepared luncheon every day in case Publisher Curtis should want it. Since the death of his second wife, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Pillsbury Curtis, in Philadelphia a year ago, while he was gravely ill in the hospital with her, Publisher Curtis had rarely ventured away from home. Most U. S. schoolboys...
...Chef Tschumi planned to retire last July, changed his mind, is still working at Buckingham Palace. So is his superior, Chief Chef Cedard...