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...Janitor Agrees...
Sinatra, as usual, is a shy type who fails to get the girl; he not only sings with great effectiveness (best new song: Time After Time), but performs naturally and unaffectedly. Durante, as a high-school janitor, hasn't much to do beyond proving, without any strain, that he is one of the most likable entertainers in the business. Miss Grayson, prettier and more animated than ever, warbles an aria from Lakmé like an eisteddfod of thrushes, and does even better by Mozart's Lá Ci Darem la Mano, in which she is supported by Sinatra...
What really made Tisman sore was that the police discriminated against him in favor of other gamblers. Police made token raids against small fry, which was "like raiding a bank and arresting the janitor." But they had closed him up tight a few times and caused him to lose a lot of business. His-brother Harry Tisman gravely corroborated this. "You had to pay to stay in business," he said. "It was just like the B.C. Electric-you had to pay your bill or you were...
...night janitor employed there wrote to William T. Gardiner '14, the boy's father, yesterday, that he had collided with "a young man" whom he had seen before at 9:30 one evening last week. He thought nothing of it until he saw the pictures and description of Sylvester Gardiner definitely checked, the janitor added, recalling the cultured and apologetic manner of the youth...
...ghastly sequence of horrors- or, as some may see it, a small-scale presentation of the fate of pure intellect in the clutches of today's harsh world. Slowly, inexorably, the new Mrs. Kien invades her hapless husband's ivory tower, teams up with the brutal janitor of the building to throw Kien out and sell his priceless library. Half-crazy, half-beaten to a pulp by his elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter in a dive inhabited solely by petty racketeers and prostitutes...