Word: doorman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estate, was registered incompetent and placed in the legal guardianship of his wife. The lady, of course, cut off her husband's funds at once, and his fever for the tables raged in impotence. Every day, when he went for his walk, the count would bully the doorman, who, fearing for his job, would force his son (Piero Bilancioni), a boy about ten years old, to play cards with the old rip for the usual stakes: everything the nobleman said he owned against the common bumf that fills a boy's pockets. Invariably the boy would...
...guess I woke up. So, when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided to go to Haiti...
Unlike The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Last Laugh has a simple story: that of the doorman of a huge hotel who, when he is replaced, believes he has lost his identity. The movie lacks subtitles, and the story-telling comes through picture progression in which the old man himself appears less than his image. You see him pictured in the mirror of the hotel's washroom, and in the imaginings which return to his old post. Unlike The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari where the complex settings were photographed straight-on, the camera work, done by Carl Freund, is essential...
...ones who have fared best under the Welfare State. Old Cock pegs them down (to quote the most printable of his memorable vocabulary) as bowler-hatted, bean-eyed, lousy, bootlicking Picklewaters. The old man is quite a social thinker. After one brush with authority-represented by an arrogant doorman-he reflects: "If we have to take to wearing bowlers before we can get a bit of simple cooperation from our fellowman, who shall not be spat on from a mighty height...
...there were 10,000 women gathered on the well-watered lawns. Gathering up all the petitions, a delegation led by a white woman, Miss Helen Joseph, proceeded to the Prime Minister's office. It was stopped at the main doors. "Whites only," said the uniformed doorman. "On whose authority?" demanded the militant Miss Joseph. "There are no apartheid notices posted." After ten minutes of harried consultation, an official said: "O.K. Five delegates only-black or white...