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...establishments. They were built expressly for the purposes which they are serving and have desirable locations. As in any hotel which is run on sound economic principles, the management must satisfy the students, who are in reality paying guests. If the prices are high, the food bad, or the maid service poor there are sure to be objections. The fact that men are leaving will force the college authorities to adjust their prices and general management to suit their demands...
...means brilliant performance in a rather colourless part. Mrs. Coburn also does well as Chee Moo, the first wife of Wu Sin Yin the Great. But the whole business is a definitely pedestrian affair. The only really attractive character is Tso (Mary Hutchinson). As the scheming maid she is intriguing...
...days the majesty of the Senate and the craft of Mr. Hogan were deadlocked. Then the Senate adjourned for the weekend and Mr. Hogan moved. At 7:30 on Saturday evening while Sergeant Jurney and his wife were dining peaceably in their apartment, the doorbell rang, a maid went to answer and the first thing Mr. Jurney knew Mr. MacCracken, followed by a young woman, was standing by the dining table and surrendering himself for arrest...
...expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan ruins in Yucatan. With the Field Museum's experts she will trek to Timbuktu and Lake Chad, return to the U. S. after two months when the party reaches Lagos. South Nigeria. Her maid will accompany...
Lords of their backstairs world, they lorded it over the party. In the boxes most of Manhattan's great butlers sat among the servants they had hired and trained, while below them on the floor their footmen and maids danced. Some of them unbent to the point of dancing with a pretty parlor maid. Those who were British-born and trained reminisced fondly on Britain's great pre-War entertaining when 20 maids and 20 valets would accompany their masters and mistresses to a great house for the weekend, bringing outside gossip. Some of the footmen and chauffeurs...