Word: hotels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city of Bombay one night last week the big hotel restaurants were virtually empty because most of the waiters were drunk. In the slum section 20,000 women and 50,000 textile workers paraded to celebrate the downfall of liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay...
Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (Twentieth Century-Fox) introduces two new screen personalities: luscious, lissom Linda Darnell (her real name), 15, of Dallas, Texas, and fat, frenetic, fiftyish Elsa Maxwell, corkjester extraordinary to Manhattan's café society. In a complicated little story about life & love in a Manhattan residence hotel for women, untypical Miss Maxwell plays herself (explaining her presence in the unswank Sherrington as her substitute for a vacation in the mountains), popping out brisk remarks, decanting an occasional drop of the Maxwellian philosophy, which undoubtedly seems headier after 2 a. m. On cocktail parties...
Last week Courier Wagner herded his dusky charges into Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. Few days later His Highness paid President Roosevelt a visit, his companions went rubbernecking about the Capital. But nobody checked in or out without notifying Courier Wagner. Between times he lolled in his suite, happily bibbing a double martini cradled in shaved...
Meantime, the Cooks, who dearly loved royalty, had organized their Princes' Department, agreed that backdoor-wise Wagner was the man to handle footloose Maharajas. His duties: booking hotel suites, dispensing funds (Maharajas rarely carry a cent in their pantaloons), shooing away swindlers, for whom he has a keen nose...
...CONCERNED NOTIFIED-Helen Reilly-Crime Club ($2). Inspector McKee of Manhattan's Homicide Squad links a dead woman in a hotel with two well-to-do corpses in an old house in Greenwich Village. Merits: good characters, fast action, nocturnal chills. Fault: complicated family relationship...