Word: dipsomaniac
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Good shot: the death of the dipsomaniac physician (Lionel Barrymore), who attends members of the Purple Gang affected by occupational disorders, in the besieged roadhouse where, while his gangster colleagues are busy shooting from the windows, he stands morosely drinking...
...easy enough to see what will happen if schizomaniac is introduced as evidence to prove Faber's innocence, disregarding for the moment whether or not he is a schizomaniac, a dipsomaniac, a kleptomaniac or a spoofomaniac. The windy, spectacular oratory of the attorney for the defense is weapon enough to swing any jury from what little reason the members may possess to their emotional, misinformed sentimentality. But it makes wonderful newspaper copy...
...Questions Asked (By Anne Morrison Chapin; John Golden, producer) shows how a young patrician dipsomaniac (Ross Alexander) who boards a Staten Island ferry under the impression that it is a liner for Bermuda, achieves regeneration. On board, he prevents a young woman (Barbara Robbins), pregnant and unmarried, from tossing herself overboard. In the next scene he has married her and they are living in a penthouse with the young man's chatty but devoted mother (Spring Byington). Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle. Visits from...
False Dreams Farewell (by Hugh Stange; Frank Merlin, producer) deals, in the manner of Grand Hotel, with a group of passengers on board the S. S. Atlantia. They include: a dipsomaniac novelist (Millard Mitchell) on his way to Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain...
...face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding under his arm. The Nuisance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). No actor in Hollywood is more adept than Lee Tracy at characterizations of likable rogues. This time he is an ambulance chasing shyster, aided by a dipsomaniac doctor (Frank Morgan) and a collapsible assistant named Floppy (Charles Butterworth) whose duty it is to fall down in front of moving vehicles without getting hurt. Everything goes well for Lawyer Stevens and his disreputable assistants until the traction company which is the chief victim of their frauds tries to retaliate...