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...tempt him to pilfer money from the bank. Eleven years ago, when Clerk Notman was first employed, he was told that he could not marry until his salary had reached ?200 per year ($1,000). Two years ago it had reached ?160, and both Mr. Notman and his longtime fiancée were getting desperate. He demanded a raise and got ?180, but that was still not ?200. The Commercial Bank of Scotland refused to take into consideration an offer by Mr. Notman's father to screw Son Notman's income up to ?200 by giving...
...Kern and Dorothy Fields of which at least two, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance, are likely to be hits; a story in which Astaire, as a dancer, and Rogers, as a dance teacher, are united after financial and emotional vicissitudes contributed mainly by the ex-fiancée of one and the exboyfriend of the other...
...seem an irresistible alternative. Not so for Kay Brannan. With a stubborn sweetness that does credit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's casting intuition, Kay Brannan goes about reforming her oafish Boston scion until, instead of divorcing her to marry the lecherous debutante (Binnie Barnes) who had been his fiancée, he is ready to sober up and settle down to work as a brain surgeon. Best shot: The Captain (Edgar Kennedy) of Dr. Dakin's yacht showing Kay Brannan how to steer...
...theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing of Barty Sr., the winning of Cleone and the expo sure of the thief who stole a fortune in pearls and banknotes from Lady Cleone...
...remorseless, hates schools in general and this one in particular. One night she hears a strange noise in Martha's room, and from then on all the cards are in her hands. She whispers to her grandmother that Martha is up to tricks with Karen's fiancé. Old Mrs. Tilford feels bound to tell the parents of other girls. The school goes to pieces, Karen and Martha lose a slander suit, and, in the sudden horror of the situation, Karen begins to wonder if the story might be true. Even when Martha finally proves...