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Fine living . . . a la carte?

Come 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 in the hotel

world. . . ." It cost twenty-eight million dollars. The fa-

mous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of banqueting.

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 your rags--

(Or do you still consider 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 luncheon there this afternoon, all you jobless.

Why not?

Dine with some of the men and women who got rich off of

your labor, who clip coupons with clean 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, and get

warm, anyway. Youve got nothing else to do.

Langston Hughes