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...conscious, and occasionally unwitting, comment on the artificiality of movie-reality and its influence over its audience. And so we see Hermie and his sidekicks going to the movies-Bette Davis in Now, Voyager is on the screen-and trying to feel up two teenage imitations of Jean Harlow. In the next scene, as Hermie prepares to visit his war bride, he is rehearsing lines like "Laughter becomes you" to get him through his embarrassment. His efforts to ape affectedly "adult" cultural pretenses are in direct contrast to those of modern movie audiences, where more often it seems the adults...
Walsh defended Harlow's practice by citing the Marignaro case, a suit heard by the District Court in November...
Councillor Barbara Ackermann and several of Harlow's tenants pointed out that the decision, which is of questionable legality anyway in the eyes of the city solicitor and other lawyers, could not apply to Harlow since none of his tenants are under lease...
Walsh flatly stated that the Council had no legal authority over Harlow anyway and that matter would have to be settled in court...
...meantime, however, Harlow will go on asking for "voluntary" rent increases from his tenants...