Judge, 1929-10-26 · page 30 of 36
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i NEW YORK'S NEWEST— THE LEXINGTON } | In the great Grand Central Zone... convenient to everything worth while i No banquet halls; no conventions 1 NO TIPPING in Grill o Restaurant Unstead, a service charge of 10% is added 1 to the check for the benefit of your waiter.| IN THE GRILL: Dave Bernie and his Hotel Lexington Orchestra. 801 ROOMS: Each with Private bath [tub and I circulating ice water, mirror doors, loset. 341 with double beds. Ono person... $4.00 two persons ... $5.00. 229 with twin beds. Either ono or two persons «++ $6.00. 231 gi twin beds. Either one or two persons RATES POSTED IN EACH ROOM NEW YORK CITY Frank Gregson, Manager { Direction of American Hotels Corporation , J. Leslie Kincaid, President | LEXINGTON AVENUE AT 48TH STREET LEXINGTON, # High Hat (Continued from page : 5) Etiquette in New Haven A letter from J. C. Lavin, president of the Hotel Taft in New Haven, informs me that— “We do not permit anyone to leave football tickets at our office, to the fact that people who around and hear a conver- sation walk in and ask for the tickets under the name in which they are left. All tick left for anyone must be called for at the Porter's Desk. The Porter signs for every envelope dotakes a (If your inded to the wrong party it’s a “balk,” and the hotel is not legally responsible.) Room reservations for the Yale-Army game in 1! i there still a “Army"—should be 1 diately. The same thing applies to din- ner in the evening, which is just another contest, after all, A cold buffet at the Taft this week for supper after the big game in "33, Hotel Taft employees are in- structed by the management to r frain from laughing or clippir when a visitor asks where he “pick up a coupla good seats.” Mr. Lavin also writes in his ex- planatory letter that dinner res- ervations should not be rat the last minute... know w y people in our Grill Room (Come, now, couldn't you arrange a table livery. n be orderec for us in Joe Alderman’s clothing store across the street?) and there are probably 5,000 that want to get in and we cannot make defi- nite reservation and keep the room empty with the crowd clam- oring (a trick play resulting in 17 first downs and 11 totally dis- abled head waiters in 1928) to get in, “If you are a guest of the hotel (Good Lord, Mr. Lavin, I spent the night on a trolle in front of the Bowl last y no hesitancy in holding a reserv: tion for you; but to just say ‘re- serve a table for eight’ and then not show up for it is adding in- convenience to the public as well as a loss of revenue to us.” But, don’t forget, Mr. Lavin, that there’s nothing deliberate in not “showing up,” as you call it, For instance: going out Broad- way instead of Grand Concourse, a trathe tie-up in Milford, tickets left home in the table drawe having a little “too much thought the game was in Cam- bridge, ete., ete. The Best Steppers Paul White n’s, Columbia, Waiting at the End of the Road Ted Wa 's, Columbia, car From Today and Bigger and Better Than Ever... Jean Goldkette’s, Victor, 4n Old Italian Love Song... Johnny Hamp's, Victor, Sunny Side Up and If I Mad a Talking Picture of You 3 Leo Reisman’s, Victor, Look What You've Done to Me and Doing the Boom Boom. Juvar, Jr. Aviator—That’s my parachute, in case I have to jump out, you know Oxv Lapy—IWell, it won't be much use there if you land on your head, will it? 28 —Passino Siow comicbooks.com pil a ea