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...blues from him, over at the Balinese Room of the Somerset this past week. He has produced three fine albums, devoted especially to his songs, but a musician of his accomplishments is just another Negro to the innkeepers of Commonwealth Avenue. Of the leading local hotels, only the Ritz would let him sign the register, and they informed him there that the management would not be responsible for any observations the guests might pass in the elevator. Josh stayed at Mother's Lunch, a colored musicians' stopping place over on Columbus Avenue...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 2/28/1942 | See Source »

Died. Marie Ritz, 75, operator of the Ritz Hotel in Paris for the last 40 years, widow of famed Founder Cesar Ritz, father of the 19 world-scattered Ritz luxury hotels; in Paris. She helped make the ritzy* Paris Ritz the best-known grand hotel to a generation of travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 23, 1942 | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...adjective grew from the hotel's reputation. Recently, when Mme. Ritz was offered favors if she would keep open house for visiting Nazis, her answer was to confine Germans to one half, Parisians to the other. The Ritz Bar was on the Parisian side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 23, 1942 | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...somewhat similar upheaval brought Hodder to the position which he held until yesterday. His immediate predecessor, Joe Stubbs, left because of charges that his team trained at the Ritz Bar. Since the fall of 1938 Hodder, previously Stubbs' assistant, has been the top hockey mentor. various skills required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARK HODDER "RESIGNS" UNDER FIRE | 1/16/1942 | See Source »

David P. Bennett '42, President of the Student Union, organized the Harvard section of the line. When the America First rally broke up, the pickets, recruited from numerous colleges nearby, moved into the Ritz-Plaza Hall to hear several Fight for Freedom speakers, including Henry B. Cabot, Chairman of the New England division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Picketers at Wheeler Talk Parade in Peace | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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