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...evening last December Channing H. Tobias, Negro clergyman, walked into a Horn & Hardart automat in Manhattan. It was during the hours when the restaurant offers table service. But the waitresses snubbed him, neglected to take his order. He called for the hostess. She promised to bring the manager. When he did not appear. Clergyman Tobias, thoroughly angered, summoned a policeman off the street, made him produce the manager. After an hour's wrangling Channing Tobias, no ordinary clergyman but senior secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s colored work, stormed out in disgust, sued Horn & Hardart...
Hold Your Man (MGM). Jean Harlow is the pattern for every U. S. dance hall hostess whose hair responds to dye. Clark Gable is the apotheosis of the heel.* They therefore constitute an ideal starring team for a picture, of which the aim is to romanticize the love life of a Brooklyn strumpet and a petty thief...
...Host & Hostess. At Swarthmore this week many a Rhodesman would hasten to shake the hand of Sir Francis Wylie. He, a wrinkled onetime philosophy don, never forgets the name, college and home town of a Rhodes Scholar. Once he presented 250 Rhodesmen to Edward of Wales, remembered them all. Lady Wylie always presided at tea, had every Scholar to dinner once a year. Sir Francis, wise and tactful, was knighted in 1929 for his Rhodes work. In 1931 the current crop of Rhodesmen gave the Wylies a silver salver, a scroll, a dining room suite...
...Siamese himself, Supervisor Sheehan soon found his Princeton charge a bit of a problem. So did Princeton officials, who obviously could not crudely oust an H. R. H. Last year the Legation heard to its dismay that Boxer Prince Prasob, 18, was planning to marry a Manhattan dance hall hostess. From Siam King Prajadhipok squelched the notion (TIME, June...
...conscious of having exerted a considerable influence, not counting her husbands. During her second marriage (to Edwin Dodge, Boston architect) her salon in Florence was famed throughout Europe. "Everybody" in the art world visited her, from Gertrude Stein to Eleonora Duse. In Manhattan she was a hospitable hostess to Lincoln Steffens, the late John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Edmond Jones. She was largely responsible for the art exhibition which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth and current husband, full-blooded Taos Indian Tony Luhan, she met when he was acting...