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Every year at 11:30 on New Year's Eve, the members gather. A representative actor reads Booth's dedication speech, which ends close to the stroke of midnight. At that stroke Walter Oettel, Booth's dresser in the theatre, now the superintendent of the club, passes a cup in which the members drink the health of this hale old tradition...
...TIME would drop the use of such words, and would change its "screaming red cover" to one of quieter hue, it would please the more conservative taste of some of its readers. ALICE DRESSER BARTHOLOMEW...
White Flannels (Louise Dresser). Mother Politz insists that her boy Frank keep his pants clean and go to college. She insists that he drop his puppy love affair with his coal-mining-town sweetheart; that he be a football hero; that he evade the college vampire. When he seems to fail in her ambitions, Louise Dresser screws up her face marvelously and weeps colloquially. When he comes from a coal mine rescue in his white flannels and fondles his original sweetheart, his mother beams. Production is an evangelical hymn played on a portable melodeon-staccato...
Club ties fringe his pictured dresser...
Thomas Dowse was proprietor of a "wool-puller's" or leather dresser's shop in Cambridgeport, where he lived and worked until his death at the age of eighty-four...