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Jean (Vincent Price) is the fourth-generation butler and valet to the Mariassy family. Old Count Mariassy (Lumsden Hare), perennially in-&-out Prime Minister of Hungary, cannot so much as button his waistcoat without Jean's help, boasts that in this admirably efficient and self-effacing young man he has the perfect servant. What is the Mariassy family's dismay to discover that Jean has been elected to Parliament as a Socialist deputy. The first shock over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Curtain Up | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...elderly eccentric rose, phoned for a bellboy, and gathered his last-minute personal effects into the pocket of his waistcoat. We accompanied him down to the street, where a victoria was drawn up at the curb, the driver waiting by the head of his old cob. Cameras clicked as Tilley stepped into the carriage and sat down. He held his brassie at his side, stiffly, like a sword. By his side sat a pretty girl, who welcomed him to the carriage and made him comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tilley's Farewell | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...waistcoat for the season is the single breasted model with square cut collar. White corded effects are the only proper vests to wear with Tails. Brocades and other fancy materials being definitely wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Formal Clothing Features Well Dressed Man's Wardrobe This Season | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

...Royal Academy show is most painstakingly reviewed each year by London's sartorial trade sheet, Tailor and Cutter, which last week gloomed over Sir William Rothenstein's slovenliness in painting a portrait of himself wearing a waistcoat buttoning the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portrait of England | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...speaker lifts the pince-nez from his nose: they snap to their stations on his pearl grey waistcoat. Folding shut the little brown volume, he gathers a few odd papers, picks a soft grey fedora from the top of the desk. Students sit glued to their chairs. Gaily, resolutely, unperturbed the lecturer marches down the aisle and out the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

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