Word: valets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astute observer once remarked: "No man is a hero to his valet." Disillusioned feminists have substituted the word "wife" for "valet." Not so Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, who last week uttered an enthusiasm: "He is my husband; he is far too colossal a person to be encompassed in any single book...
Complications are plentiful in the romance when Dolores Casanova, vamp of Spain, comes on the stage, leading Rockwell's valet, Jimmy Walker, a merry tango. L. W. Grossman 1G.B, who wrote the music for last year's show and portrayed Nooky in the "Fool-for Scandal,", furnishes a large share of the comedy as Jimmie Walker. Spanish girls still have a thing or two to learn from C. R. Frazier '27, in the part of Dolores Casanova...
...Great Adventure. Reginald Pole a Western actor, revives Arnold Bennett's play full of infinitesimal subtleties for the infinite satisfaction of folk who like Arnold Bennett on the stage. An artist who would be known to the world by his work only, changes places with his valet. The valet dies suddenly. The artist goes on painting, marries a bourgeois little widow. Their life is disturbed when the artist is rediscovered by professional collectors. The problem of the play is to make the wife realize that the man she married for a butler is really an artist...
...Ambassador Herrick's valet was hurt opening an infernal package sent by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers...
...Mexico City, in Italy and South America, thousands clamored that a Red-fearing U. S. had blindfolded the goddess of Justice to get rid of two Italians. Bombs were tossed at U. S. embassies with a casual malice. One autumn day in Paris in 1921, Ambassador Herrick's valet opened the morning's mail. "Bang!" went a nefarious machine. He was wounded. Many a man- Remain Rolland, Fritz Kreisler, Professor Einstein, Count von Bernstorff, H. L. Mencken, Eugene V. Debs-demanded a new trial for the fish peddler and the factory worker...