Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which...
...Yowsah," the "old maestro" mumbled to a CRIMSON reporter, as he attempted an unsuccessful clasping of his collar button in the bedroom of his suite at the Statler last Tuesday afternoon. "Yowsah, times have certainly changed. Why, yesterday's leading bankers are doormen today--if they're lucky; and the old saxophone-ish, wailing type of jazz has given way to a new style of popular music...
Clarence C. Pell and Stanley Grafton Mortimer have been playing racquets so long that doormen, stewards and resident members of almost every club that has a court know them by sight. Pell is the shorter one, with the row of ridges in his forehead. Mortimer is the lean one, with the sharp nose and thinning hair. They won the national racquets doubles championship in 1915, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929. The two gentlemen they were playing in their semi-final match at last week's national doubles championship in the Racquet Club at Philadelphia possessed less formidable reputations...