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...high open seat wearing a heavy double-breasted coat. His face, protected by goggles and deprived, by a windmask, of the cigar stump which was already as much one of its features as a nose, looked like a death's head. Driver Barney Oldfield had left school to be waiter in an insane asylum, left the asylum to be a bicycle racer, left his bicycle to work in the Ford auto factory. Last week Barney Oldfield, now 53, was at Daytona Beach, Fla., as was Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird, a $115,000 twelve-cylinder...
...Manhattan restaurant Miss Alice Weigel, eating succotash, bit something hard, found it was a bright new dime. Angry, Miss Weigel called her waiter, showed him the dime she had found in her succotash. "Thank you," said the waiter, smiling as he departed with the dime in his pocket...
Next morning Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went to the police. Their assailant, said they, was slim, young, pale. His demeanor, even during the process of attempted assault was not discourteous. Perhaps he was a waiter or a steward. Accompanied by the police Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went aboard the Monarch of Bermuda. Hiding in his berth they found one Peter Paul Jencius, 18. On his head was the hatchet mark that Mrs. Pagenstecher's maid had blazed...
...lowered. A small table for two has been set intimately, with a small rosy lamp and a bottle of bubbly. Never has the siren been more seductive than now, when she tries to woo her husband out of his dark mood, a mood which is running to ironic quotations. "Waiter," he orders his butler, "waiter, another small bottle, please. Regan, dost thou know who made thee...
...independent medium are discouraged because an overwhelming majority of the best talkies are reproductions of successful plays or novels. Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly in the fact that Gloria Swanson performs more quietly than Helen Gahagan; her restraint makes the dialog...