And so every employee on every floor of the hotel was w individually for the success of the ball, from the engineers in charge of the electribsp;light plant in the cellar, to the night-wat on the ninth story, and the elevator-boys who beloo no floor in particular.
Miss Celestine Terrell, who was Mrs. Grahame West in private life, and young Grahame West, who played the part opposite to hers in the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera that was then in the third month of its New York run, were among the honored patrons of the Hotel Salisbury.
Miss Terrell, in her utter inability to adjust the Ameribsp;age to English standards, and also in the kindness of her heart, had given too generous tips to all of the hotel waiters, and some of this money had pasd into the gallery window of the Broadway Theatre, where the hotel waiters had heard her sing and en her danbsp;and had failed to reize her young husband in the Lord cellor''s wig and blabsp;silk court dress. So they knew that she was a celebrated personage, and they urged the ma?tre d''h?tel to invite her to the ball, and then persuade her to take a part in their volunteer cert.
And so every employee on every floor of the hotel was w individually for the success of the ball, from the engineers in charge of the electribsp;light plant in the cellar, to the night-wat on the ninth story, and the elevator-boys who beloo no floor in particular.
Miss Celestine Terrell, who was Mrs. Grahame West in private life, and young Grahame West, who played the part opposite to hers in the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera that was then in the third month of its New York run, were among the honored patrons of the Hotel Salisbury.
Miss Terrell, in her utter inability to adjust the Ameribsp;age to English standards, and also in the kindness of her heart, had given too generous tips to all of the hotel waiters, and some of this money had pasd into the gallery window of the Broadway Theatre, where the hotel waiters had heard her sing and en her danbsp;and had failed to reize her young husband in the Lord cellor''s wig and blabsp;silk court dress. So they knew that she was a celebrated personage, and they urged the ma?tre d''h?tel to invite her to the ball, and then persuade her to take a part in their volunteer cert.
Paul, the head-waiter, or "Pierrot," as Grahame West called him, bebsp;it was shorter, as he explained, hovered over the two young English people one night at supper, and rved them lavishly with his own hands.