Word: valets
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...been deprived of their irreplaceable weirdness for five years. Groucho is the rattily natty new manager of a swank North African hotel in which the Nazis have cached French art treasures. Chico knows all about the rival lines of camels, yellow and checkered, which take tourists around. Harpo is valet to the hyperpunctilious Nazi (Siegfried Ru-mann) who is trying to escape to South America with...
...World" is the most fortunate element in it. From the dancers (incidentally the most beautiful and the mot daring of this and probably any recent season) through Julie Warren and Mary Healy as the female leads to Alan (Falstaff) Reed as fix and Larry Laurence as Fogg's valet, Passport out, the east performs with unusual freshness, gaiety, and enjoyment...
...your issue of March 18, you refer to Mr. Winston Churchill as follows: "According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs." Also: "His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him." You are probably right, but I am reminded of a legend about President Lincoln during the War between the States. When some character was complaining to President Lincoln about the Northern General Grant's proclivities for whiskey, Lincoln is said to have remarked that he would find out the brand of whiskey that General Grant used and send a barrel...
...last week he marshaled his lady, his three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...
...scarlet robe and black plush cap of an Oxford doctor, he stumped into Dr. McCluer's living room, tired but happy. A photographer's bulb exploded. "There must be a Russian in the house," he grinned. His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him. Then Winston Churchill stood in the reception line...