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Item: after a cruel compromise has crushed an automobile workmen's union, a union lieutenant (Grover Burgess), fired, blacklisted and evicted from his home, is so demoralized that he takes to drinking, abusing his baby, patronizing 25? brothels...
...fire. Meanwhile, life goes on even more squalidly than usual among the lodgers in the Clitheroe rooming house. When rebellion degenerates into looting of Dublin stores, Fluther (Barry Fitzgerald), the barfly, takes advantage of his opportunity to erase his tab at a pub, fill his pockets with bottles. Bessie Burgess (Eileen Crowe) makes off with a baby carriage, a bird cage and an armful of finery...
...from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport. Ruth Coleman is an erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen Burgess is a Paramount stock player also new to the screen. Key situation of A Doctor's Diary is the villainy of Dr. Ludlow (Sidney Blackmer) who postpones an operation on a boy violinist to attend to a rich client. Because of the delay the fiddler loses...
...less ambitious feat of imagination, Playwright Anderson has given High Tor a young owner named Van Dorn (Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy and gut, and at the same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft...
...paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear his father's name, Mio Romagna (Burgess Meredith) gets a clue 15 years later when he learns from a newspaper clipping that Garth - suspected at the time of knowing something about the murder - was never called as a witness. To the dank tenement under an East River bridge where Garth is living with his benign old father...