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...kindly, jealous Hugo Matuschek, Frank Morgan (who has a flair for Central European roles) turns in his best perform ance since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...
...staff in for waffles and chicken). He rides to the Embassy Office in a four-coolie sedan with specially strong bamboo lift-poles. There he reads and answers 40-odd telegrams from China sore-spots each day. If there is a big rush on, he helps decode messages. Some errand may take him to the Foreign Minister, less frequently to the Finance Minister, very seldom to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In the evening he occasionally gives a stag dinner (his wife and two children live in Peking), otherwise reads something light and goes to bed-sometimes to be wakened...
Crosley: station wagon (called "errand-wagon") at $420, "Parkway delivery" at $350. Claims: 50 miles per gallon, cent-a-mile operation...
...relates the inside story of 14 national Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between one faction and another, wrote the first draft of political platforms (usually discarded), delivered statements to the press. It was Theodore Roosevelt who gave him his nickname of "Nicholas Miraculous...
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