THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1938.
HOW TO RUN A HOTEL-BY
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THE MARX BROTHERS QUEENS
After looking over the situation, we have come to the conclusion that something ought to be done about hotels. As you, dear reader; know (or don't you?), we've just finished making "Room Service," and we
CHOLERA PATIENTS AT
lived in a synthetic hotel on the RKO KENNEDY TOWN
Radio set for weeks. It got so that at home we'd look for a push button to order ice water with That is if anybody wanted ice water. Any- body here want any?
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Well, sir, wo decided to do some- thing about this hotel business, if it isn't too late. It's quarter past ten now. For one thing, from now
All Hong Kong cholera patients are now being treated at Kennedy. Town Infectious Diseases Hospital.
The Cholern Hospital at Lai Chi Kok is being used as an ex- tension to the Chinese Hospital already established in the lower portion.
on we're going to see that all bell- The elevator stops sixteen times hops are midgets. You can wrestle on the way down, and each time your bag away from a midget a lot there's a small riot over who's get- easier than from one of those football heroes - swarming all the lobby.
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ex-ting out and who's getting in. over | Enroute, you're jammed back in
corner under three fat women and a wadrobe trunk and before you can get out on the main floor, the opera- tor recognises you and brings you back to the nineteenth floor, When we build the Marx Hotel, there'll be an elevator for each room.
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Then there's the matter of wait- ing. Your room's on the nineteenth floor, and you ring for the elevator. You wait. When it comes, you get in with thirty-one others, most of them, big brutes with predilections (like that word?) for walking on your toes.
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Another thing is this business of push buttons. Push buttons are among the greatest labour-saving de- vices ever invented, but hotels don't make good use of them. They only have one button, what good is a The single button to anybody? Marx hostelry, will be different. Be- side each bed will be a panel, and on that panel will be so many buttons it'll look like it had measles.
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The barber-shop, too, will be im proved in the Chateau de Mar. Living with Harpo so
years has suggested to as the iden of silent barbers.
: In fact, remembering the many close shaves. he has given us, We |'nominate him da the first silent bar- Liber of Seville and all joints enst.
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