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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
TX 941 M36 D39 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18494 |
| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - TX 941.M36
- Item number - D39
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Romulo, Beth Feagles Day,
- Dates associated with a name - 1924-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Manila Hotel :
- Remainder of title - the heart and memory of a city /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Beth Day.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [place of publication not identified]
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - [publisher not identified]
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - [19--?].
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - ix, 284 pages : some illustrations ;
- Dimensions - 22 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "Chapters 7 and 8 on WWII and the Japanese occupation. Part of Chapter 9 discusses post-war rehabilitation." - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
- Summary, etc. - "The Manila Hotel. The very name is magic with memory.
Since its triumphal opening in 1912, the "Waldorf of Manila," the "Aristocrat of the Orient," as it has been variously called, has hosted the grand balls and elaborate receptions for which the lavishly hospitable Filipino is renowned.
Until recently, it was also the official guest house of the Philippine government. Here stayed presidents and kings, premiers and potentates, as well as glamorous celebrities from Hollywood and the international world of sports.
In the halcyon days of the Philippine Commonwealth, when the President's tango in the hotel's Fiesta Pavilion was better known than his international diplomacy, the hotel transformed an entire floor into a luxurious penthouse or the fledgling nation's military adviser, General Douglas MacArthur. It was this same penthouse that, in one of the greatest ironies of World War II, the Japanese Imperial Army would take as its own.
Once the bastion of Manila's American society, the hotel eventually became the Filipinos' meeting place as well, where women vied with one another for the most elaborate gowns and jewels, and politicians determined the country's future at raucous conventions.
For seven decades and a half The Manila Hotel has stood as witness to the lives, loves, triumphs, and heartbreaks of a city.
Here is its story."
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Manila Hotel (Philippines).
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Hotels
- Form subdivision - Manila
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Manila
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
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