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Perhaps the happiest Rhodian of all was Michael Stamatoglu, manager of the Hotel des Roses. For the remaining half of the four-week truce period, business would be brisk. Floor Waiter Georgiu was intrigued by Bernadotte's request that half of the rooms reserved should be in one wing of the hotel, half in the other, as far apart as possible. "There are separate staircases too," said Georgiu with a knowing wink, "which may be convenient...
...artist, tearfully commented: "She is such a dear old lady, and becomes dearer every year. How I would like to lunch with her! When I met her I would like her to say, 'Hello, Miss Cohen,' and I would say, 'Hello, Queen.' " Said a Negro waiter from Dutch Guiana: "People come and go, but it will seem strange without Wilhelmina...
...pressagent told the story, roly-poly Don Vicente Miranda, onetime waiter who now owns Mexico's swankest nightclub, El Patio, lay abed one morning last week and pondered on the world's sad state. Everybody, he decided, was tense and nervous. Then he bounded out of bed with a plan. He would soothe the world with mole, the marvelous Mexican sauce based on chocolate and chile...
...with Alfred Fischer) can't quite hide its late igth Century look or its early G.B.S. grin. A scrambly farce, it treats of modern-minded matrons separated from their husbands, children trying to track down their father, a penniless dentist wooing a would-be unromantic miss, a wise waiter whose son is a distinguished barrister. Shaw called You Never Can Tell a potboiler, and few-even of his admirers -would call it art. But though Shaw may seem to be writing down in it, actually he is tuning up. In its satiric toots and twangs about family life...
...Just then," said Mrs. Thomas, "a waiter came up and knocked the cup of coffee the President was holding out of his hand. The President was real nice about it. The waiter-yes, he was colored-was so apologetic it was pathetic. The President said: 'That's all right, Pete.' He's so human...