Word: valets
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...chief valet grows rich on his master's whimsical extravagance. Receiving a salary of only $1,500, he is able to make ends meet by selling the King's cast-off suitings...
...plans truly worthy of his efforts. Every worker on the road is to be assured not only of adequate food, clothing and shelter, but each family is to have a sewing machine, a phonograph, and an automobile as well. The next thing on the program is doubtless "a valet, too, for every four" such as was supplied to the crew of H. M. S. "Mantel-piece" by her kindly Captain; Mr. Ford is not the man to be outdone in generosity by anyone...
After all, it is probably pleasanter to sit by the warm fire of a cold winter's evening, and imagine one's self lolling on the "paepae" of some picturesque Marquesan hut, listening to the chatter of Exploding Eggs, the native valet, and Chief Seventh Man Who Is So Angry He Wallows in The Mud, than it would be to explore in the flesh those far-away places, to broll under the tropic sun, flee from the shark and the enraged swordlish, or suffer the stings of the "nones" in deserted Haapa, where the last dregs of the Typee race...
...review of "June Love" would not be complete without a word about Miss Mitchell as MacIntyre, a Scotch maid whose forceful personality and use of the "absent treatment" causes Charles Brown, as a valet, to forego his single blessedness...
...husband, and Mr. Minturn was a self-possessed, smiling villain. Miss Beatrice Allen was a shivery, clinging type of daughter-heroine, while Mr. Slaytor did well as the landlord. One of the best pieces of acting in the entire show was done by Mr. Vivian as Ferguson, the valet. He received a liberal share of the applause, and aided in an apt characterization of his master, Devereaux, by pathetically exclaiming "You'd be such a nice man, sir, if there weren't any women in the world!" Mr. Walling as Inspector Treffy, contributes another line of truth when Mrs. Regan...