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...including a huge Austrian-ware receptacle decorated with a lavender, red and green battle scene ($250), stood in every room. Lumberman Long had few pictures, none by famed artists, but liked bibelots like his small ivory goose ($2.25). Gongs announced dinner even when Mr. Long was alone and his valet played the organ while he sat on Aubusson-tapestried chairs, ate from English china, drank from hand-cut crystal goblets (sold for $280). At large dinners, a silver tankard more than two feet high ($135) decorated the table. A sufferer from asthma, Mr. Long had a mahogany stand on which...
Rumor has it that the social life of the Harvard man is about to be simplified for one of these all-inclusive valet organizations in the Square has turned its attention to the duty-dance question. To preserve etiquette around Boston, this firm feels that a gentleman should have the assurance that these sordid experiences have a satisfactory remedy. They are seriously debating organizing a cut in service which would work as follows...
...reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...
...public eye. Aboard the Houston he had only his two young sons Franklin Jr. and John, Rudolph Forster, chief White House clerk, Richard Jervis, chief of the White House Secret Service, his Bodyguardsman Gus Gennerich, his Physician Commander Ross T. Mclntire, his Negro Valet Irvin McDuffy, a sack of mail, a special library of 300 books, his seven-foot bed in the Admiral's suite. The entire Press and Public were represented by Associated Pressman Francis M. Stevenson, United Pressman Frederick A. Storm and Universal Serviceman Edward L. Roddan who trailed two miles behind in the Gilmer. Two additional...
...suspension, he bought two 16-cylinder Cadillacs, soon lacked money to run them. In Reno, he met and married a Dorothy Dunbar with whom he has since quarreled and made up seven times. When he left Reno for New York, he had with him a chauffeur, a valet, a dietitian and a present from Dorothy Dunbar, Emily Post's Book of Etiquette, which he read when he was supposed to be doing roadwork. Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled...