Word: statler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ellsworth Milton Statler went to Port Huron, Mich., where Michigan Hotel Association members were in convention last week and explained the chief reason why innkeeping is not prospering. There are too many hotels. Hotels are built without adequate forethought or fore-consideration of a community's needs...
Profiting by the work of such hotel-builders as Boldt, Haan, Sterry, Bauman, Bowman, Muschenheim, Statler, Mr. Bernstein has introduced a magnificence that could be the inspiration only of an able Jew. There are telephones at every turn, express elevators that fly up like harnessed rockets and drop down like oiled meteors. Lounge rooms, gorgeously decorated, allure business-weary limbs with divans and sofas and curving love-chairs; while upstairs, opening upon corridors carpeted with rugs into which feet sink as into perfumed snow, bridal suites and grand suites and supersuites await their imminent occupants with tapestries of many various...
Died. Mrs. Ellsworth M. Statler (nee Manderbach), wife of the famed hotel man, of pneumonia, in Manhattan...
...object to your article on Lawrence Tibbett (issue June 15, Page 13) where you refer to "paunchy hotel proprietor." Here are the names of the five foremost hotel men in the business: John M ("Jack") Bowman, Lucius Boomer, E M. 'Statler, Ernest Stevens, Frank A. Dudley, the last named the head of the greatest hotel chain in the world. But where is their "PAUNCH." Even yours truly denies the possession of one. Gaze on the enclosed pictures of the youngsters in the Class in Hotel Management at Cornell University. Dockery is 6 feet 3; the graduates average just...