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Meanwhile, a few blocks away in Boston's Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Authors Bella & Sam Spewack, shuddering at the thought of Broadway critics, were slashing the script of Leave It to Me, rushing off to hammer typewriters. While the audience was holding its sides over Act II, Act II was going, bit by bit, into the Spewack wastebasket. While the audience was filing out after the show, behind the curtain the cast was flopping down on the stage before being handed practically new parts and rehearsing them far into the night...
This week, while Man's Hope was being published in Manhattan, Malraux was celebrating his 37th birthday, living at the Hotel Ritz in Barcelona. He has been working with Cameraman Louis Page, who filmed Carnival in Flanders, directing a film of the Civil War, based in part on Man's Hope and intended largely for South American audiences. Now separated from his wife, Malraux still holds his publishing job, spends less time in Paris than ever, has few intimates outside a family circle consisting of himself, two halfbrothers, Claude and Roland, his stepmother...
Because their humor is "non-Aryan" and therefore not officially funny, Rome's Fascist newspaper Il Tevere urged all good Italians to boycott films showing Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers and the Marx Brothers. Making a big muscle, Il Tevere added: "The Marx Brothers are only a big bluff...
...anecdotal parade of Ritz's ritzy friends and of his famous staffs (called the "Academicians"), Madame Ritz's biography also recalls many a mouthwatering feast, describes with nostalgia the innovations which earned Ritz's unchallenged fame as the "king of hotelkeepers." Herself a member of a family of famed hotelkeepers, Madame Ritz is by second nature discreet. In her account, the closets of the Ritz hotels are as free of skeletons as they are of dust. Her only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests...
...inventing the luxury hotel, Ritz perforce had to pay attention to plumbing, and this led him to an interest in hygiene in general. At a time when even palaces stank with clogged drains, Ritz put in modern plumbing; in addition he threw out heavy, germ-catching furnishings, gave every room a southern exposure. Within a short time the Paris Ritz became known as the best sanatorium in Europe...