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...care if I never read another poem again-so long as my stomach's full. Love is not a potato. You can't eat it." An unpoetical but potato-providing suitor is close at hand. Dr. Stevens (Brian Donlevy), family friend and star boarder...
...only child of hard-working parents in Atlantic City, who had to take in a boarder to make ends meet. To contemplate the long, hard road between Bea and her destined summit would dismay most authors, but not energetic Fannie Hurst, who loves nothing better than building up material careers in print. As a starter, Bea was persuaded to marry the middle-aged boarder. With her mother dead, her father helpless from a stroke, her husband (insufficiently insured) killed in a train wreck, a baby and no prospects, it might look to the reader as if Bea's career...
Ignored, forgotten in the Democratic excitement, was the Mayflower's star boarder-Vice President Charles Curtis. When he moved into his eleven-room $150-per-day suite (which costs him $5.53 per day) he was the hotel's prize social attraction. Once his vice-presidential progress through the lobby turned heads, drew crowds. Now, as the Vice President-reject, he passed quietly out of a side entrance without fluttering the slightest public interest...
Cinemactress Dressier's producers have not let her starve, but they have given her major roles which often seem to be bit parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which...
...Lake Garda, Italy, Loretta Turnbull, 18-year-old Monrovia, Calif, out-boarder, competed against the best professional drivers in Europe for the PFN cup, put up by the Fascist Party in a meet organized by Poet-Out boarder Gabriele d'Annunzio. She drove her Sunkist Kid V across the line first in the first heat, second in the next after fixing her motor which had faltered at the start, won the cup on her average time...