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...Manhattan, 2,500 butlers, chauffeurs, chefs, valets, cooks, footmen ladies maids, parlor maids, chambermaids and scullery maids abandoned the houses of their socialite employers to attend the first Butlers" Ball at the Commodore Hotel. Its sponsor was Mrs. Marshall Field. Proceeds ($4 per couple) were earmarked for Bellevue Hospital charity. Beforehand, newshawks had cut loose with patronizing ribaldry about the "servants' night off," "Must the butler dance with the parlor maid?" and "We 'Awkinses and our gels." Hence newshawks were barred from the ball. Said Mrs. Combs, wife of Banker James Speyer's butler: "Because...
...singer (Esther Ralston) an angry husband bangs his way in upon Prince Alfred's philanderings. When the singer escapes, the Prince decides to retreat temporarily to his villa in Monte Carlo. He sends Josef ahead with his crested luggage. On the train Josef meets a lady's maid named Marie (Elissa Landi) who is also traveling with crested luggage. Each mistakes the other's social position. In Monte Carlo Josef yearns for Marie, invites her over when his employer is out. In she flounces in her mistress's gown, squeals "Whatever mahst you think...
...humankind, and yet not strange enough to be got over with a bit of heavy "character acting," Dr. Haggett, finding that Chris' pictures are immensely valuable just after he has given them away to a crook, is in a rather difficult position; when he finds further that his maid Abby has one more of the pictures, and sells it for twenty-five thousand, only to have her refuse to part with it, he is in a still more trying spot; and when he learns that Abby has seventeen of the pictures which he had thought burnt, things are undeniably stirred...
...Bible Belt, what has become of the Insuil interests? Greece, all Greece, and only a sordid tale of a mistress who turns out to be somebody else's maid of Athens. Nor has the West Coast, the Gold Coast, forgotten to keep up its reputation. Hervey L. Clarke of General Theatres Equipment, and William L. Fox of Fox Films, managed to pull faster ones in the financial world than they would ever have dreamed of trying to foist off on their patrons in the name of melodrama. So the role of honor might be extended indefinitely. Those on it perfected...
...Stella Benson Anderson, 41, British novelist and voyageuse; of pneumonia; in Hongay, Tonking, French Indo-China. A suffraget before the War, she aspired to "wit, learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where...