 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Vagari veThe Hotel Knickerbocker vaisanganisira muimbi weMetropolitan Opera Enrico Caruso, uyo akatora imba iri pachikamu cheshongwe nemhaka yokuva pedyo kwehotera neMetropolitan Opera House. Apo mugumo weHondo yeNyika I wakaziviswa nenzira yenhema pana November 8, 1918, Caruso akatungamirira boka kunze kweimba yake mukuimba The Star-Spangled Banner; akadzokorora kuita paZuva reArmistice mazuva matatu gare gare, apo hondo yakaguma chaizvoizvo. Mutambi uye munyori wenziyo George M. Cohan aigarawo imomo. Vamwe vaenzi uye vagari vaisanganisira muimbi weopera Geraldine Farrar, baritone Antonio Scotti, mutungamiriri wefirimu uye mugadziri D. W. Griffith, munyori wenhau F. Scott Fitzgerald, pamwe chete nevezvematongerwe enyika vakawanda uye vamiriri. Sangano rezvematongerwe enyika reTammany Hall raiwanzoita misangano yaro paHotera Knickerbocker, uye mukuru wezvemapepanhau William Randolph Hearst akatanga mushandirapamwe wake wakakundikana wesarudzo dzemukuru weguta reNew York muna 1909 paKnickerbocker. 