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General Nobile (about to leave the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan for a fete in Pittsburgh): "As captain of the airship, every person on board depended on me during the flight. Riiser-Larsen, second in command of the airship, was appointed navigator by me. . . . During the entire flight of 71 hours I acted all the time as captain of the airship, giving orders to every one, controlling what everybody was doing...
...Eisman. The latter is in the button profession in Chicago, and she calls him "Daddy" only when a place does not seem too public. He is against her going into cinema because his mother was "authrodox." At home and abroad she conducts herself with innocent circumspection, going from Ritz to Ritz with her colored Lulu, picking up baubles here and there from gentlemen friends in a very nice way, eventually marrying a Philadelphia fortune. She covers much the same ground as "Cleone" did, and affords an entertaining comparison of the two ages of gallantry. The literature of illiteracy is enriched...
...went, he exchanged amenities with the Mayor. He sent back to the Mayor a blue steel 45-calibre Colt, a gift when he took office; he sent with it a note accusing the Mayor of putting a damper on his activities, especially of preventing him from padlocking the Ritz Carlton Hotel for violation of the liquor law. Philadelphia was in uproar. General Butler had a good record on statistics...
Frank A. Munsey was dining at the Ritz, his Manhattan home. It had been a satisfactory day. In the morning at the office of the Sun he had given a few directions to his trusty group of executives. The afternoon he had passed at his 1,000-acre estate on Long Island. He never felt better, he said. And others, as the year neared its end, were speaking of the phenomenal Sun profits?at least $1,000,000. Suddenly, at dinner, he became ill. Within a few hours, on the advice of Drs. Frank R. Oastler and Samuel W. Lambert...
Vivienne Segal sings most of the songs, recalling for many the pleasant afternoons and evenings when she was in Oh Lady, Lady. Ritz Brothers, three of them, vaudeville favorites, add absurdities...