Word: guests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most brilliant affairs of the season. The guests did not begin to arrive, at the Foot-Lights Club in West 131st Street, until well after midnight. When they did come, they were the elite- Pope B. Billups, candidate for Judge; Dr. Alain Locke, professor of philosophy at Howard University; Actress Gertrude Saunders, Composer Ford Dabney and many another Harlem notable-fashionable Dr. H. Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy...
This dinner calls for an elaborate ritual. First one of the guests must "call the pudding down" and another guest must "lead the pudding in." After that it is carved and eaten with rare old liquers to "wash it down...
Good Press? Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Mexico, spent busy hours severing connections, settling his affairs, emptying desks and files in J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Manhattan office, whence he had resigned. Then he went to dinner at the Lotus Club as chief guest of Herbert Bayard Swope, energetic executive editor of the Independent Democratic New York World. Other guests, whose presence seemed to promise Mr. Morrow "a good press" in the U. S. after he reaches Mexico City, included Publishers Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World...
...herself adopted by a Baroness in order to marry a wealthy English youth. Five minutes before the wedding the youth, learning all, is distraught with her deceit. Furious at the collapse of his true love she rips off her wedding dress and flees the gathering, just as the guest of honor a stuffy, haughty prince, sweeps majestically upon the scene. This may sound pretty palpitating, but one must listen to a lot of sluggish stuff before the climax...
...Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not the husband's proves troublesome...