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...their tool shed, the three contrive not only to keep body and soul comfortably together but also to exemplify the Golden Rule. The violinist gives lessons to a street cleaner whose life ambition is to learn to play "Macushla" on the fiddle. The furniture dealer rescues a despondent banker who is trying to commit suicide by plunging into a pond. The actress keeps house for them and is dejected only when the furniture dealer wears a shirt she has not had time to iron. By the time the picture ends, the violinist has a job, the street cleaner knows...
...Interior Department added $900,000 to the $600,000 already spent at Reedsville. Fifty houses are occupied and ten of a projected 140 more are being built. Though Congress ungraciously squelched Mrs. Roosevelt's plan for a postoffice-equipment factory there (TIME, March 12), a government-built vacuum cleaner assembly plant, which will be leased to a private firm, is within three months of completion...
...quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...
...laundryman was swept out as publisher of Hearst's Washington Times last week and the son of a carpet-cleaner prepared to move in. The laundryman is George Preston Marshall, handsome, flamboyant owner of Washington's prosperous
...pleasant little comedy with incidental music. It supplies no opportunity to evaluate Warner Brothers' claims since it makes no demands upon her talents beyond: 1) impersonating a rich girl who finds wealth such an obstacle to a full life that she makes friends with a window-cleaner and rents a furnished apartment in which to entertain him and his friends; 2) listening to Dick Powell sing. She meets these demands effectively. The impression she gives audiences is that of Janet Gaynor with a brain. A shade more memorable than either the Hutchinson performance...