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...mother and two children. He left high school at 14, went to work for a bank, left it for the War. The success of his first novel (1929) gave him sufficient confidence to become his own master, retire to his house, where he hung a sign on the doorknob: "J. Giono works in the mornings...
Norma (Joan Blondell), a girl who cannot dance or sing, falls in love with Rosmer (Dick Powell), an insurance salesman who cannot sell insurance. Some of the stranded show girls in her troupe would put their foot against a train door and then keep on yanking at the doorknob till they got a man to help them. Norma, more modest, does better, lands a job as Rosmer's secretary. In Manhattan, one J. J. Hobart (Victor Moore), a hypochondriac theatrical tycoon, is being diddled by a pair of lawyers (Osgood Perkins and Charles Brown). Having lost the money...
...McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save me the necessity of carrying it to the the ash can. ... Following the letter the Citizen printed this note: At our regular rate of $3.50, any disgruntled reader may have his own particular doorknob meticulously ostracized from the Citizen's delivery system for 52 weeks-a cost less than 7 cents per week...
...Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers see the doorknob turn and wonder whether they have been discovered, The Painted Veil improves on its original...
...York City's BMT (subway) in the Chase National Bank building, Herbert Bayard Swope (New York World) was trapped for 48 minutes in a stalled elevator. At his office in the Heckscher Building a few hours later Mr. Swope was locked in the washroom, rattled the doorknob until a secretary...