Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Iturbi arrived in the U. S. Sailing up Manhattan harbor, he wept. He went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...
...good friend and Palo Alto neighbor, Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover and other members of the Bohemian Club relish, among other famed Folger stunts, his dialog between two Chinese missionaries. Another famed Folgerism: preventing Morris Gest from making an after-dinner speech by appearing disguised as a voluble German waiter and claiming to be Max Reinhardt, the Miracle...
...Marquis can write simply, but would rather write arabesques. When he rides his high horse, he is a long way off the ground. But sometimes he gets a startling phrase. In The Right Knife he describes a night club servant as "a pallid night-blooming waiter who was a part of the fauna of these regions, moving like a gray slug among their distempered flora...
Scarlet Pages. A lamentable victim of bad drama is Elsie Ferguson, surely one of the most genteel and talented of players. In recent years she has several times displayed her auburn sightliness (The Moon Flower, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, The House of Women), only to learn that the chords of life which she interpreted were dissonances. In Scarlet Pages she appears as a capable woman lawyer to whom appeals a cabaret girl who has killed her father because of his incestuous attempts...
Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet. The rest of the comedy has been long hallowed in burlesque halls-the mad bellows and sobs of Harry Welsh as a shouting waiter; the kicks which short, tough Joe Phillips aptly places on female targets...