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...curled out of spittoons in the Claridge Hotel from cigarets that had gold tips and monograms. An epic and a joke, it has made Selznick the name of a dynasty in the weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold watch, a $50,000 messenger boy, the Tsar of Russia and the Wandering Jew. It began the day Lewis J. Selznick auctioned off the stock...
...when Adolph Zukor did the same for Mary Pickford, he wrote Mary Pickford a letter telling her to congratulate Zukor for copying his idea. He held the first lavish previews at the Astor Hotel, signed Nazimova and Norma Talmadge, made $300,000 out of War Brides, had his valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK...
...last week President Hoover arose from his luncheon in the White House and, instead of returning immediately to his office, went upstairs to his dressing room. There with the aid of Boris, his valet, he put on formal morning clothes. At 2:15 Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover knocked on his door. "The new Canadian Minister is here, Mr. President," he announced. A last pat to his necktie and President Hoover descended the stairs, entered the Blue Room, took a good solid stand near its centre. Usher Hoover threw open the door from the Green Room. In marched square...
...dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that he was found by his valet who entered the room to awaken him at 7 o'clock...
...least two score more than necessary. It was of no interest to anybody except Senator Pierre Maurrad that he was runner-up with 334 votes. The Left, after Briand left, had to vote for someone. M. Doumer, as President of the Assembly, was already in his dress suit. His valet's work was done. Triumphantly the President-Elect left Versailles, saluted by the Garde Républicaine. He motored directly to Paris, directly to the Elysee Palace of President Gaston Doumergue, which, after June 13, will be the Palace of President Doumer, the "gue" being dropped. Doumer and Doumergue...