Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1929, Page 113

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—APRIL 14, 1929 The Genial Headwaiter By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1929, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) Just a handsome headwaiter in a night club, pensively scrubbing off a soup spot and pondering the while on the great number of people who can't bear to stay home of an evening. - The headwaiter in a railway lunchroom is a pretty busy person. Has to calm down irate travelers who appear just five minutes beiore train time and want quick service or know the reason why, by golly; besides having to soothe temperamental waitresses whose arches hurt them and who ask coldly how he gets that way, “because that's Gladys' table. not mine, and vou can let Gladys set up her own table!" Peter works in a family hotel dining room, given over largely to elderly ladies who drop things. Peter's dress coat is all out of plumb around the neck from stooping over to pick up bags. hankies and neckpieces dropped by lady guesis. “Good morning, sir: nice day today.” The breaktast smile of the hotel headwaiter i# thrown in gratis with the combination breakiasts, and may or may not last till lunch “Qur fillet de cheval is very enticing today, madam.” A headwaiter with big, melting orbs time, what with bushoys who drop things, waiters who forget is a great asset to a restaurant wherein impressionable ladies are wont to gather at lunch time. and guests who complain about a speck in the butter. Lady customers will get so het up they won’t know what to order when our hero leans over and looks saucer-eyed at them, which, of course, is his cue to suggest whatever they have too much of in the kitchen. L g : 5 . “Sorry, sir. These tables are reserved.” Headwaiters are intensely sensitive to an ap- “That's a table for 10; would you mina sitting over Vv g ’SS ¢l s/ v Vi as " . . S ’ A'.‘. lfl"h I!ezduhq{le!g‘ “i:“ll“gt;l(;t":‘(!"s:f:e:“ ia“Gre'.|k h“;:h;"' “,::,)uh::::fi pealing personality, and vice versa. Those unfortunate persons who are lacking in winsome- here at this dear little table?” Some restaurants have gone very far into his h“g 13, e s Ti“"' O ‘f i ? L toier ness of contour, or minus appeal in a refined way, had better dine at home. Because, sure gone in for hostesses instead of headwaiters. A hostess Rogquefort dressing is the wrong ide PECIEEY M EEOHY SOL A {CUSLOIET. as fate, the moment they step up to a headwaiter he will pilot them to an out-of-the-way is the same as the old-fashioned headwaitress, only table near the service pantry where the bushoys stack the dishes—that is, if he notices much more socially inclined and much more expensive them at all. looking. K e (2 (W g