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...about life) to help her if things get too much for her. Before long she needs his assistance. She is married off to one Gomar t'Joens, and Gomar -a typical Walloon peasant, roundheaded, hard-drinking, tough-natured - soon proves to be a caution for cats. His small inn becomes a way station for tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket, Karelina's life sinks to that of a drudge in a roistering, rustic underworld. She escapes, hunts up Uncle Domitien. Gomar pursues and reclaims her-but not before...
...Garrick invited to Paris to appear with the Comédie Française in 1750. Preceding him there flies the rumor that he is coming over to teach the Frenchmen how to act. The angered members of the French company prepare an extravagant hoax, take over an inn Garrick must stop at en route, man it with players from their troupe. Plan is to give Garrick an alarmingly warm welcome. Tipped off, Garrick and his man Tubby (E. E. Horton) affect serene indifference to the staged hubbub...
...President Boomer's idea, the art exhibition was suggested by a 29-year-old German girl named Maja B. (for Johanna)* Geek, a secretary in the Waldorf's foreign department. Herself the owner of an inn in Baden-Baden, placid Miss Geek has been greeting German, French and Italian visitors for the Waldorf since 1932. She arranged her first Waldorf workers' show last year, but that was small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas...
Rollicking along a New Jersey road one dawn three years ago, President George D. Strohmeyer of Childs Co. (restaurants) and some elated friends spied a sign: Maridell Inn. They tore the sign down, made a bonfire of it. Caught in the act by a policeman, they then split a fine of $75 plus $19.50 costs. This week Childs's President Strohmeyer again made news with a restaurant sign. This time, instead of tearing down an old one, he hung a new one: The Host, Incorporated...
...Memorialized by Novelist Robert Herrick, a onetime Gehring patient, in The Master of the Inn...