Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's elegant St. Regis Hotel last week, a waiter carried two tomatoes on a tray into the suite of Mrs. Tillie Lewis of Stockton, Calif. She was aghast at the bill ($1). "You tell Vincent Astor,"* said Mrs. Lewis as she signed the check, "that these tomatoes cost him no more than 5? apiece, that's 1,000% profit." Said the waiter: "I guess you know your tomatoes...
When the long tables had been cleared, the workers ambled bashfully up to the platform and waited for the dinner. The spotlights went off and the waiters trooped in with silver urns full of Cream of Chicken Soup. There were also croutons which the Press Table's waiter managed to spread neatly all over the newsmen. Then came steaks with mushroom sauce, and lastly, "Ice Cream Ring Aux Fraises" complete with liqueur sauce. "You could get drunk on this," warned the reporter sitting next...
That night people dropped in, drinks were passed, and a waiter brought a wedding cake. A noisy party grew. Marion did not feel well and went to bed early. But two days later, back in her own house in Beverly Hills, she said, reflectively: "It will be all right. W.R. liked him very much. Yes, it will be all right...
They drank cocktails, ate dinner and then, still ravenous for excitement, departed-leaving only $1.13 for the waiter because he had been "so snooty"-and sallied forth into the night. Three youths whistled at them. A few minutes later, boys & girls were seated in a Broadway bar. After a drink, Roberta excitedly told the tale of the hidden $15,000. The boys jeered. Roberta pulled out the locker key and waved it. A little later she went to the ladies' room, leaving her bag on the table. The boys soon drifted away...
...runs a delightful Oscar Straus waltz, signaling each consummation, helping to set a gauzily Viennese mood, and accompanying a refrain sung and spoken by Narrator Walbrook. The narrator spins a symbolic merry-go-round and manages the characters like a master puppeteer, pops up in each episode as a waiter, doorman or passerby and once, prophetically, with shears in one hand and film in the other, as the censor...