Word: washrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Night Club. This vapid, badly recorded cabaret revue, introduced without scintillation by Donald Ogden Stewart and composed of flash shots of famous entertainers, of the washroom and a coatrack, has no apparent connection with the story by Katherine Brush from which it is supposed to be taken. To make it long enough for a feature, Director Robert Florey photographed and recorded an audience ceaselessly clapping hands. Worst sound: the henlike cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor...
...Chapman supplied ample money. Designer Burnelli built, last week, their product. The biggest plane yet built in the U: S. flew about the Newark, N. J., airport with a dozen passengers at 165 m.p.h. It has seats in its cabin for 20, plus a lounge, a kitchen and a washroom. With the 20 it can go 800 miles in seven hours. Altogether it makes a new competitor for the other great transport planes-Stout, Fokker. Boeing, Loening, Curtiss. Keystone and the new one Igor Sikorsky is designing...
Captain Loewenstein, said his servants, had been reading a book, laid it down after carefully marking the place, took off his collar and tie, went to the washroom, vanished. The servants all professed that they felt no such rush of air as would commonly be experienced if the door of the plane, which was opposite the washroom door, had been opened and become a funnel for the suction of the 175 mile gale...
...instance he had heard about Negroes who had been assigned to desks among white men and women. The Negroes, he said, were "all grins, and congratulated . . . on the recognition that had been given them." He further charged that white and Negro women were obliged to use the same washroom. Senator Stephens said his protest was "in the interest of decency and the welfare of Government. Whenever there has been a step toward social equality between the races, dire results have followed...
...Story: At the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Manhattan, Photios Missailidis and Athanas Harrison conduct the men's main washroom. Each day they place large clusters of small-sized buttonhole flowers (daisies, bachelor-buttons, tube roses, carnations and the like) in vases in their washroom?free buttonhole flowers to any washer-at-the-Ritz...