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...seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only to learn that the rich already...
Plumber Wright wanted a girl named Wallie ("Babe") Coughlin to inherit his legacy. But all he knew about her was that he had seen her in 1918 at the age of five, toddling around the stage of a burlesque house in Fort Wayne, Ind. To find her, ads were run in Variety and Billboard. But not until the Court of Missing Heirs took the matter in hand were 240 potential Babes unearthed, of whom only three felt sure enough of their identity to head for Canada to claim the legacy...
Topper's nextdoor neighbors are a houseful of leering, peering evildoers and a pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points...
Plot of "Out of Line" centers about a young man, "Jay," played by Allen W. Mathis, Jr. '42, and his friend "Ted,' played by John E. O'Neil, Jr. '42, who inherit a college and also win a half dozen chorus girls in a crap game. In their attempt to rejuvenate the college with their chorines, "Jay" and "Ted" find themselves in a series of amorous and legal dilemmas, from which they finally succeed in extricating themselves...
...press told the people frankly that U. S. sympathy and aid to Great Britain were an actuality. With this news there was cunningly coupled the charge that U. S. aid was designed to lead Britain to her ruin, to the end that the U. S. might inherit the British Empire...