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...educated at Heidelberg and Berlin University. He got Max Reinhardt to give him a part in The Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...
Along Broadway, Manhattan, strayed a brindle Great Dane bitch as big as a calf and as heavy as a featherweight boxer, all alone, with her tongue lolling out and a puzzled look in her eyes. The doorman of the Hotel Breslin had never seen a Great Dane bitch before, but unlike the other Manhattanites along the block, he was not frightened. The bitch looked as if she might be worth money; he stepped out and took Her by the collar. An hour later from a Manhattan police station to which the doorman had consigned her. Handler Ben Lewis of Lexington...
While scores & scores of guests at Belle Livingstone's "Mecca of Merriment" (TIME, Nov. 10) drank, ping-ponged, played miniature golf and rigadooned one night last week, a group of determined individuals muscled their way past the doorman. One of them interrupted the orchestra, seized a megaphone and-as every one acquainted with the place had expected would happen some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried...
...just to prove it, Miss. Gilmore rushed gaily off to tes, nearly whisking the buttons off a comparatively statuesque doorman...
...further footnotes to the Congressional Campaign. After breakfast next morning he waited in his hotel lobby for a committee of city officials to come to escort him in state to the station. When they failed to arrive as train time approached, the Vice President called a taxi. The hotel doorman, unwilling to see the nation's No. 2 executive depart unhonored, jumped in beside him, escorted him to the Union Station behind five motorcycle police...