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CONSOLIDATED PRESS CLIPPING BUREAUS CHICAGO, U.S.A. 431 SO. DEARBORN ST MAIN OFFICE CLEVELAND OHIO PRESS MONDAY JUNE 12 1939 NORMAN SIEGEL Waiter Fit to Serve the King and Queen Takes Hickory Grill Orders Your Order,Please - Eddie Hohnl will be 58 tomorrow. He looks 58-but not a day older. Eddie has been waiting on people most of those 58 years. He now takes food orders at the Hickory Grill, working for Joe Schulman ever since he opened his Chester avenue stake house. Eddie is a confirmed bachelor. Born in Bohemia, he came to this country 32 years ago. He was a waiter in the old country, so he became on here. And when Eddie takes your order he gives you "royal" service, for Eddie has waited on royalty in his day. The king and queen of England didn't get to Cleveland on their trip to this country. Had they, Eddie would have know how to wait on them. Back in 1903, he used to serve Prince Albert of Prussia. That's when he worked at a restaurant in the fashionable Zoo district of Berlin. He was the prince's favorite waiter. He still bows as he used to when the prince came to dine. Sarah Bernhardt was another of his customers. He served her at the Grand Hotel in Grenoble, France. Eddie recalls that she used to eat a very light lunch and dinner, but had "the works" for supper after theater. He waited on Roald Amundsen, the noted Arctic Explorer many times in New York. Amundsen always dined by himself, according to Eddie. He at simple food and seemed to be a lonely man. Fritz Kreisler, the eminent violinist, was another of his guests, Eddie waiting on him before and after the last war. That was in Cincinnati. He remembers Kreisler walking with a cane due to a wound received fighting for Austria. Eddie is barely five-feet tall and weighs around 125 pounds. However, he's in remarkable shape for a man of his age. That's because he used to be a professional diver and fighter after restaurant hours. He explains the bald spot on his head with the statement that his hair wore away at the point he used to hit the water as a diver. His career as a boxer ended in Philadelphia in 1911. He was pitted against a "One Round McCarney" for the flyweight championship of the city. Eddie says he entered the ring, shook hands with "One Round," got his instructions from the referee, returned to his corner and came out fighting. The next thing he knew the fight was over. McCarney had been misnamed. It should have been "One Punch," rather than "One Round." Of all the people he's waited on, Eleanor Powell is his favorite. He was her waiter when she appeared here at the State a few weeks ago. Eleanor always used to pat him on the back and whisper, "I'll see you again tomorrow." Bachelor Hohnl beamed when he spoke of Eleanor. "I guess I met her 30 years too late," he slyly remarked. "And now, what is your order, please?" * * * Rose Bowl Next: The Don Lee Network, which operates television station, W6XAO in Los Angeles, is negotiating to televise the Rose Bowl football classic and parade of flowers on New Year's Day. * * * Royal Suite: Twenty rooms on the seventh floor of Hotel Cleveland are being reserved for the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway, who arrive here Saturday. One of the 20 rooms, which will be occupied by members of the royal party, is the hotel's famous "7 C" suite, which is the Cleveland "home" of the late Calvin Coolidge and Former President Herbert Hoover. While the hotel is busy getting ready for the royal guests, it is also doing a lot of other redecorating. The Terrace Restaurant in the basement has been done over, with a sound proof ceiling, new lighting system and green and cream wall paper bearing Southern Plantation scenes. The work on redecorating the adjoining Little Cafe is slated to start later this week. * * * Private Sights of a Public Sight-Seer: Bachelor Al Bailey trying to match napkins to that tabecloth [[tablecloth]] he was carrying about downtown.... Walter Seeley, head of the North Randall track, listening to the WHK handicapper for tips....Mrs. Constance Merryweather Lindley having her broken leg reset at Lakeside Hospital....Florindo Luccioni teaching Lillian Clark of the City Hall how to wind spaghetti... Gene C. Hutchinson, lake fleet operator, tossing a Union Club party to celebrate the arrival of a third daughter at Maternity Hospital... Gene Kelley of the Statler and L. E. Pierce of the Cleveland huddling on National Hotel Week plans.... Johnny Kilbane, on-time feather-weight champ, getting a bigger hand than the fighters did when he stepped in the ring to referee a Hall match....Fight Promoter Bob Brickman being stopped by an usher who demanded to see his ticket.... Clothier Elmer Scheuer back from Florida with one of the new sun top cars....Margaret Martin, winner of a Dick Powell song contest, rehearsing the role of Barbara Fritsche for the Cain Park Theater production of "My Maryland."... Jimmy Bettis, who runs the "Fisherman's Luck" show at WHK, missing a broadcast because he went fishing on the day he was to have been on the air...Florist Nick Nichols back from seeing the king and queen in New York...."Chick" Beger, former Georgetown University golf star, in town to lunch with local Georgetowners....Jane Summers, blond WHK hostess, flashing a June engagement sparkler ....Judge Perry Frey confiscating all of the lichee nuts at the party Tong Y. Chin tossed for Miss Ya-Ching Lee noted Chinese aviatrix ...Paul Packard, veteran newspaperman and member of former Gov. Martin L. Davey's staff, back in town writing radio scripts. ...Larry Roller getting out his