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...name of the opponents of the French, English and U. S. Troops in the late War adds little to the suspense. Home Made. Johnny Hines, pretending he is a man pretending to be a railroad porter, meets a pretty girl. Then afterward, pretending not to be a restaurant waiter, he bluffs his way to financial and marital success. None of this is nearly as funny as it is intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...coat check girl and a dining room captain to help out in the parts of the rascally smugglers. He might be able to do a Pygmalion with the coat check girl if he could teach her cockney, and there is a scene in Mr. Pinero's "Magistrate" where the waiter would fit in nicely but it's all very quaint in "The Ghost Train...

Author: By L. H. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...VANGUARD-Arnold Bennett- Doran ($2.50). The Story. Septimius Sutherland, middleaged, married, meticulous, is preparing to leave Naples for his native London. Packed, he rings for a waiter that he may sup in his hotel room. The bell is unanswered. Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Vanguard | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...table. He'd been on plenty of operating tables before. He was not going to die. There would be a priest if he was going to die." The Killers is about two men who go into a restaurant to shoot Ole Anderson. First they put the cook and the waiter in the kitchen. Then they talk to the proprietor and wait for Ole Anderson to come in. At five minutes to seven they decide he is not coming in. Nick ? the cook ? goes to see Anderson at his house. He says: " 'They were going to shoot you when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Without Women | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Said J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler: "I am a native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moose Pap | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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