Tony, one of the headwaiters, is already halfway up the first flight, his dry cleaning draped over his arm.
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The owners of this promising new restaurant are John Alexopoulos and Claudio Peralta, who, between them, have decades of experience as waiters, headwaiters and maître d's at high-end Manhattan establishments like Bouley, Molyvos and Picholine.
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The Prince of Headwaiters is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by John Francis Dillon.
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She acted in silent films such as The Twin Triggers and The Stolen Ranch in 1926, followed by Tearin' Into Trouble and The Prince of Headwaiters in 1927. She was also a polo player.
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He produced Clothes Make the Pirate in 1925.British Film Institute: Sam E. Rork Productions A year later, in 1926, he produced Old Loves and New and The Blonde Saint. In 1927, he produced The Notorious Lady, A Texas Steer, and The Prince of Headwaiters. In 1932, he was the associate producer of Call Her Savage.
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From January until August 1917, Randolph and Owen published the Hotel Messenger. But their exposé of union corruption (wherein the headwaiters were selling uniforms to sidewaiters at high prices and pocketing the kickbacks from uniform dealers) resulted in their immediate dismissal. They moved into an office next door at 513 Lenox Avenue. With the patronage of Randolph's wife Lucille, they launched The Messenger.
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The enormous round spectacles and the pince-nez continued to be worn in the twenties. In the thirties there was increased emphasis on style in glasses with a variety of spectacles available. Meta Rosenthal wrote in 1938 that the pince-nez was still being worn by dowagers, headwaiters, old men, and a few others. The monocle was worn by only a minority in the United States.
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Born in Paris, France, on March 21, 1897, Borden immigrated to the United States in 1914 at the age of 17. By 1917 he had entered the film industry, appearing in a featured role in Christy Cabanne's The Slacker. Over the next 43 years, Borden appeared in 160 feature films, usually in uncredited roles, many of which were as characters do menial labor, such as headwaiters, porters, pursers and coachmen. During his long career in films, Borden appeared in many notable movies.
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Chappelle, often accompanied by his wife Eugenia, was a staple at many social gatherings during and after his time in office. Julius C. Chappelle and his wife attended the popular "6th Annual Ball of Headwaiters of Young's Hotel " at Horticultural Hall in 1883."Our Letter from the Hub", The New York Globe, front page. Saturday, April 28, 1883. In 1886, the prestigious Massachusetts Club inducted Chappelle and Frederick Douglass (though Douglass was only an honorary member). According to a Cleveland Gazette 1886 report, Chappelle was also the only African-American full member of the club.
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Toward the end of 1916, A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen dropped out of college, joined the Socialist Party, and gave soapbox orations on street corners around Harlem. Their socialist and labor union propagandizing gained them celebrity in the area. When they walked into the office building at 486 Lenox Avenue, while looking for a meeting space for their Independent Political Council, they were recognized by William White, President of the Headwaiters and Sidewaiters Society of Greater New York. He suggested they move into his society's headquarters and edit a monthly magazine for waiters.
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The Cub Room's wood panels were replaced by beige burlap and the portraits of beautiful women were replaced by paintings of noted 19th-century race horses. As a concession to those who wanted to have a business lunch at The Stork, the Cub Room was for men only during lunch time. The sanctum sanctorum, the Cub Room ("the snub room"), was guarded by a captain called "Saint Peter" (for the saint who guards the gates of Heaven). The most famous of the Cub Room's headwaiters was John "Jack" Spooner, who was well known to many celebrities from his previous duties at LaHiff's.
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Elsewhere, "as a matter of professional caution, he booked table reservations in a false name, and made certain that he did not eat at the same restaurant, or drink at the same bar, more than two or three times a year." > But even before he became a spy, Christopher had disliked being recognized > by headwaiters and bartenders. As a youth he had never exchanged a word with > the New York Irishmen who tended bar at P.J. Clarke's or the Frenchmen > behind the zinc bar at the Dôme, though others seemed to attach importance > to being known by name to these contemptuous men.
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With A.H. Rice, May 1920 Miramar, the home Widener planned with her first husband and completed with her second The yacht specially constructed for the Rices' Amazon explorations 1915 dedication, Widener met Harvard professor Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., a surgeon and noted South American explorer, a "certified Boston Brahmin" who "knew headwaters the way other society folk knew headwaiters." In October she married Rice while wearing her "celebrated [$750,000] string of pearls which she saved from the Titanic disaster". (Another string, worth $250,000, had been lost. One headline read: "Explorer Weds Titanic Widow".) She gave up her Philadelphia home, dividing her time among Newport, New York, and Paris when not accompanying Rice in his explorations.
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While at NYU, she began her writing career, publishing poetry, articles, and short stories in magazines. In 1921, she would publish her first short story collection, The Heritage, and other stories. She expanded into the film industry in 1925 when one of her short stories, "On the Shelf", which had been published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1922, was made into a film called Let Women Alone. She had another one of her short stories, "The Prince of Headwaiters", (co-written with Garrett Fort) made into a film of the same name in 1927, before working on her first screen writing credit in 1927, when she wrote the titles (dialogue) for Night Life, a silent film directed by George Archainbaud.
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