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Fine living . . . a la carte?
e to the Waldorf-Astoria!
LISTEN HUNGRY ONES!
Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the
new Waldorf-Astoria:
"All the luxuries of private home. . . ."
Now, wont that be charming when the last flop-house
has turned you down this winter?
Furthermore:
"It is far beyond anything hitherto attempted iel
world. . . ." It cost twe million dollars. The fa-
mous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of baing.
Alexandre Gastaud is chef. It will be a distinguished
background for society.
So when youve no place else to go, homeless and hungry
ones, choose the Waldorf as a background for ys--
(Or do you still sider the subway after midnight good
enough?)
ROOMERS
Take a room at the new Waldorf, you down-and-outers--
sleepers in charitys flop-houses where God pulls a
long face, and you have to pray to get a bed.
They serve swell board at the Waldorf-Astoria. Look at the menu, will
you:
GUMBO CREOLE
CRABMEAT IN CASSOLETTE
BOILED BRISKET OF BEEF
SMALL ONIONS IN CREAM
WATERCRESS SALAD
PEACH MELBA
Have luhere this afternoon, all you jobless.
Why not?
Dih some of the men and women who got rich off of
your labor, who clip coupons with white fingers
because your hands dug coal, drilled stone, sewed gar-
ments, poured steel to let other people draw dividends
and live easy.
(Or havent you had enough yet of the soup-lines and the bit-
ter bread of charity?)
Walk through Peacock Alley tonight before dinner, a
warm, anyway. Youve got nothing else to do.
Langston Hughes