Word: nobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nob Hill (20th Century-Fox) is a document of social insignificance as foggy and expensively furnished as the austere eminence for which it is named. A sentimental saga of class war in the early IQOOS, its only sunlit moments occur when the plot and the famed habitat of San Francisco's 400 are abandoned and the film goes slumming in the gaslit environs of the Barbary Coast, a region by now as familiar to most cinemaddicts as their own backyards...
...musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...
Valets at the Fairmount Hotel on Nob Hill groaned when they discovered that the flowing white robes of the Saudi Arabians had to be pressed daily. The Arabians steadfastly refused to sign autographs (as did the Russians), obeyed Moslem laws and drank only fruit punch and orange juice in the bars. Bellboys at the Mark Hopkins complained that the British and the Chinese were the poorest tippers, averaging a dime (the British are accustomed to tipping once, on arrival or departure...
...fiasco failed to dim either Merola's enthusiasm or his dark-eyed powers of persuasion. In 1923, backed by a $35,000 advance sale and $25,000 from the members of Nob Hill's rich Pacific Union Club, Merola launched his first regular season...
Civic Attraction. In San Francisco, Monteux's portly figure, dyed black hair and Gallic wit have long since become civic features. He lives with his excitable, rolypoly French wife in the oldfashioned, palatial Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. The Monteux blue-serge suits and pearl stickpins are often seen in social salons...