Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1930, Page 111

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.—GRAVURE SECTION—MARCH 2. 1930. The Room Clerk By W. E. Hill (Copyright. 1930. by the Chicazo Tribune Syndicate.), Meet Miss McGuffy, floor clerk of the fifth floor at Hotel Swatt, one of those places where they have to be so careful. Miss Mc- Guffy is at the moment looking very much askance at something getting out of the elevator. Night room clerk. Night clerks are born, not made. Most of them can’t sleep in the daytime except by fits and starts and get practically no beauty sleep at all. A night clerk’s bed room is usually just over a school playground, or next door to a lot of riveting, or directly under a player piano that does “Kiss Me Again.” The country hotel. This is Sevilla, lovely daughter of Proprietor Brophy of the Hotel Brophy-Ritz. She is minding the hotel register this morning, and with what an air of hauteur and dolce-farniente, which is Italian for “I don't have to work if I don't want to." A drummer from a hardware concern allowed it was a nice day today on his way to breakfast and Sevilla murmured, coldly, “I seen better.” From which it is easy to see that Sevilla Brophy is a girl not to be trifled ; i The commercial house. Mr. Ed Sitz, the genial room clerk of the Hotel La Villa, a hostelry (see folder) catering especially to traveling salesmen and theatrical folk who appreciate, respec- tively, commodious sample rooms and a good home table.. Ed is gazing coldly upon the world right now, due to the fact that a girl dancing unit playing the vaudeville split week has but this instant wheedled a terrible rate out of him. A room clerk has almost no time for introspection or meditation. There's always something. If it isn’t a new arrival, or some one wanting to know if the Cleopatra Club meets in the rose ball room or the Italian lounge, it's Miss Nusbaum, the assistant cashier, wanting the date of his graduation from high school and t size of his neckband, which, added to the current year and divided by four, will give his age. Assistant cashiers dearly love mathematical puzzles! The Winter resort. A room clerk who The assistant room clerk. Whiie the The personality boy. Donald is I arning works in a resort hotel has to b regular room clerk is pretending to look the hotel business from the ground up, so to looker. Now and then he must be able up a reservation and generally stalling speak. He is room clerk now. and a very say, “Stamps at the news stand” or * till the occupant oi 308 is checked out, personable one. He's a great kidder, is Donald, see the head porter about that,” and maybhe Miss Timkins' j b is to step forward and and, should a guest come forward with a check fuss around with the sorted mail, the idea smile a devastating smile, showing all of to be cashed, Donald will make believe “rown Family hotel “There’s an enormous roach frisking around my bath being that bored lady guests hanging around her uppers and most of her lowers, STy, lelpt” as he sinks out of sight be e e e e R e O the lobby can look over and get an eyeful of thereby disarming the newly arrived e “f‘i“‘_ Should said guest still ask to away. And don't send Joc, the porter, up, hecause he was very rude to me boyish charm. guest, so that he will accept a court room i, Herpeck Cashed, Donad will counter vesterday " (Just a sample of what a room clerk in a family hotel has to without protest ey Would you kick a_defenseless battle with during working hours.) womar in the face?" Smart boy, Donald! VL 22— (a0 e\ (5N