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Second feature, "Dressed to Kill" features Lloyd Nolan in the third picture of the "Michael Shayne, private detective" series. It's just dull enough to make you sleepy just exciting enough not to let you fall asleep...
...fast asleep. . . . I can give myself autohypnotic suggestions...
...common disease. Vice Chairman William Hammatt Davis of the Mediation Board was in conference one afternoon with other Board members and the Board's young executive secretary, Ralph Theodore Seward, when Seward's head drooped. His eyes grew heavy behind his thick glasses, and suddenly he was asleep. Nudged awake, he stumbled across the room, fell onto a divan, and slept the rest of the afternoon...
...Frank Porter Graham, University of North Carolina president, interrupted by the telephone in the midst of conference with fellow Member Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil, blinked at Mr. Teagle with heavy, black-circled eyes as he hung up the receiver. Mr. Teagle was sound asleep on a sofa...
...Eddie Cantor's Now's the Time to Fall in Love, when between the countless jittery "takes" the orchestra rushed to telephones: it was Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe him in a 23rd-floor studio. Between these diplomatic feats, Leonard Joy picks names for pieces...