Word: proprietress
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...superficially grotesque story revolve the figures of: Mrs. Melrose Ape and her troupe of traveling angels. Chastity, Divine Discontent, etc.; the sinister ubiquitous, omniscient Father Rothschild, the Honorable Walter Outrage, "last week's Prime Minister," Agatha Runcible, loudest if not brightest of the Bright Young People, Lottie Crump, proprietress of the crazy London hotel (it really exists) where everyone drinks champagne from dawn to dusk, where bills are infrequent, irregular, but inescapable...
President Coolidge and "Texas" Guinan, Manhattan night club proprietress, were strangely linked by the New Student (intercollegiate clipsheet). Each had refused to give interviews to freshmen competitors for the editorial board of the Princetonian (undergraduate daily). President Coolidge was speciously said to be reluctant to meet "a reporter from a college with Princeton's strong Democratic traditions." Proprietress Guinan was wary because Prohibition agents had once used the ruse of a college youth seeking an interview to hand her an injunction which padlocked one of her raucous night clubs...
...tiddling, all unseen by the press. "I'll come down myself," snapped Mr. Payne. He, 33, a viveur himself in a controlled fashion, is a member of the Club. His face - curly-mouthed, snub-nosed, the face of a bespectacled Puck-is well known to "Texas" Guinan, famed proprietress. Also, it is known, most unpleasantly known, to Harry K. Thaw. That is why the other patrons of the club gasped when they saw the waiter place Mr. Payne at the table next Mr. Thaw's, back to back with the killer. In every mind beat a terrible question...
Presently the curtain rises again on the small lobby of the Commercial House in Herrington. The girl an ingenue, well played by Miss Mayo Methot, has been taken under the wing of the proprietress, while the quondam hobo who saved the former and has since fellen in love with her, has found a job and sufficient prospects for an early marriage. Enter the deacon with as smooth a piety as his legerdemain at cards. The audience, as the action proceeds to draw forth an unquestionably real and homely set of characters, is at a loss to know what to expect...
...second and third acts hold the attention remarkably. The suave scheming deacon, a lovable hypocrite and generous to a fault, is pivot; and Mr. Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish proprietress, is, however...