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What goes on behind a waiter's poker face? Many a nervous, exasperated or curious diner has often wondered. Last week a waiter took off his uniform and tried to tell. What he had to say was disappointing. Thirty-year-old Dave Marlowe (real name: Arthur Timmens) has been a ship's steward on British and U. S. liners, a waiter in New York speakeasies and night clubs, has worked in swanky London hotels, in rowdy pubs. But apparently he paid as little attention to the guests as they paid to him. As a ship's steward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waiter | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...doing to foster that friendship between mature men and students which is so valuable to both. In addition, it was pointed out that many colleges seemed to have neglected this aspect of college life, for in some of them it was an extraordinary event when a student lunched or diner with a professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

...flew with but one forced landing, without injury to any of her passengers. Out of service since 1933 because she was too slow, NC-228-M was sold fortnight ago to United Maintenance Mechanic Kurt Springer for $400. She will now resume service, this time as a roadside diner, with a lunch counter down her middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Resurrected | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...average diner-out will pick the dish with the fancy colors every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Caterers' Capers | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Alice Faye) to write a searching play, one thing never achieved by her illustrious great grandfather Edgar Allan Poe.* When penniless Miss Wells consumes three orders of spaghetti in a Broadway restaurant, the proprietor and his violinist (Rubinoff) let her sing for her supper. That is enough to convince Diner George Macrae (Don Ameche), a successful musical comedy librettist, that Judith is wasting her time as a playwright. Although this impression is confirmed when Macrae and Producer Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger) read her dismal drama, North Winds, in which the principal characters all freeze to death, they take an option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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