Word: savoyism
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...four week engagement at the Colonial Theatre. The high reputation which this company has gained is due to the fact that for many decades, it has regaled British audiences with the finest in Gilbert and Sullivan production. This year marks the first time that it has ventured from the Savoy Theatre in London for a visit to the United States; apparently, from the New York and Philadelphia reviews, this venture has been highly successful...
...cheap, tourist traffic was up 20,000 for the season, excluding the heavy week-end trade from normally stay-at-home gold-bloc countries like France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Visiting U. S. tourists remained twice as long as in previous years. Despite rate reductions to accommodate dollar travelers, the Savoy in London took in 35% more from room rent than...
...EMERALD MURDER TRAP-Jackson Gregory-Scribner ($2). Wicked old Paradene's trap was not long empty; it caught more than he wanted, because of Mr. Paul Savoy...
...There is no mystery whatever," said Colonel Norris, who was once secretary to Britain's onetime Postmaster-General Sir Charles Hobhouse, and they deprecated tall tales of the swath they had cut across the Continent. "You see we have only five rooms at the Savoy-Plaza and we should have more with all the business we do," piped Siegfried Wreszynski. "And the telephone is proving a nuisance," said the Colonel. "People arrive in their offices in London, Brussels and Amsterdam at 10:30, and they call us up at the Savoy-Plaza. They don't realize...
...forced to buy or travel in Germany. But Messrs. Wreszynski & Norris will pay more for their marks than legitimate bankers, sometimes 2%, sometimes 10% they say, depending on the individual deal. Last week Manhattan banks which furnish a thawing service regarded the high-powered gentlemen at the Savoy-Plaza with astonishment. As for talk of a $300,000,000 turnover, the bankers laughed...