Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In a recent issue of TIME in your Cinema column you print, "Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house. . . ." If facts are of any interest to your valuable publication I shall be very happy to furnish a complete history of my life. Although I have followed a number of professions, I have up to the present never been a waiter in real life...
TIME erred. The father of Original Subscriber Menjou was the owner of a Cleveland chop house on Prospect Street, famed for its beer; young Adolphe, home from Cornell University, helped in the management, greeted customers, but donned no waiter's costume. Yet, Adolphe Menjou, by his cinema roles, has done more than any man alive to glorify the profession of waiters, both plain and head. . . . With the exception of two brilliant scenes, Mr. Menjou's recent films have not been up to the high standards of his earlier ones (such as A Woman of Paris). Let Mr. Menjou...
Married. Adolphe Menjou, 38, sartorial cinemactor (The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, A Night of Mystery), to Kathryn Carver, 25, blonde cinemactress, onetime wife of Photographer Ira Hill; in Paris. Twenty-five cameramen were present...
...Night of Mystery. Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house were not surprised when the movies "discovered" him. He was the suavest man that ever picked up a 25¢ tip. His way of wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French...
...cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...