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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