Word: doorman
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...went back to her hotel room and downed three large glasses of heady red wine. Then she tucked a bottle of alcohol from her spirit stove in her wrap and stole back to the theater. "Just picking up my stepson's things," she told the doorman as she entered. The doorman nodded sleepily, and Eva slipped backstage. She slopped the alcohol over some newspapers and jammed the sodden mess in among the scenery. Then she dropped a match and flounced out. Four hours later, all that was left of "the oldest theater of its kind" were four walls...
...Last Laugh is the triple A, gilt edge part of the German silent-picture oaring. The title and billing suggest that it is a comedy, but actually it is the tragic story of an old man demoted from the splendor of his position as a doorman at a plush hotel to the ignominy of washroom attendant duty. The scenes of the man clinging pitifully to his braided doorman's coat, counterpointed only by the maudlin humor of a drunken party, play up the pathos of this demotion very effectively. The title refers to a purposely incongruous ending, one which...
Still fingering the bruise on his neck, Pearson bustled over to the office of the U.S. District Attorney and swore out an assault warrant against Clark. Flushed with victory, Clark later pranced about outside the Mayflower's main entrance, re-enacting the battle for the hotel doorman and passing Senators. Next day he appeared in court, pleaded innocent to Pearson's assault charge. As for Pearson, whose spaniel-like manner is in contrast with his terrier-type reporting, he got some sound advice from his cook, Margaret Brown. Advised Margaret: grab your assailant by the ears and pull...
...cheerful pilgrim's progress from Paris to the Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with romantic anecdotes of beautiful American heiresses, great dukes...
...brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother into giving him money, goes to work as a doorman at his club, a bartender at his favorite restaurant, a window washer at his office...