Word: warners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warner's aptness with a billiard cue is doubtless partly due to his health. Never has he needed a doctor since the hour of his birth. His aptness at taking cues from passengers is unquestionably due to the 38 years he has spent at that major study of all Pullman porters, Human Nature...
Watch Mr. Warner when the train leaves the station. He moves unobtrusively through his car?it may be the French Lake, Red Ridge, William Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
...Pullman passengers may be divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away?and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous...
...porters whom travelers may call "George" without affront, Mr. Warner was educated at public school in New Orleans. His seven stripes indicate 35 years, going on 40, with the New York Central. His residences are on St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. C., and Calumet Ave., Chicago. His chief club, The Turf Club (Chicago). His sons, Devere Joseph and George Joseph Jr., are in civil service and sportdom, respectively. George Joseph Jr. achieved some fame as a pugilist (nom de combat, "Jose Alvarez, the Mexican Kid") and fought "Kid" MacPartland to a bloody draw in his last ring appearance, in Illinois...
...Million Bid (Dolores Costello, Warner Oland). The title indicates how much Millionaire Geoffrey Marsh (Warner Oland) paid Mrs. Gordon (Betty Blythe) for arranging his marriage to her glossy daughter, Dorothy (Dolores Costello). The film indicates how Villain Marsh gives over to Hero Brent (Malcolm McGregor) after a storm...