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...vitality and glow of her own extraordinary personality. She personifies, more than she impersonates, a woman who, nourished by experience, faces her own age with equanimity and has courage enough not to hate her inferiors for their trivial misdeeds. What would otherwise have been a routine tear-jerker is thus strengthened with some measure of warmth and humanity. Typical shot: Miss Dressier arising in court to contradict her lawyer when he belittles her accusers...
Pierre too, alas, loved (and in vain) a girl of his own home town. When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan. On the eve of Pierre's departure old Tony appeared with a play he had written, read it to newly-married Ann. Tony's play, in Seven Keys to Baldpate style, goes on with the story from that point. It shows Pierre at the last minute sacrificing his career for Ann's sake, giving...
Charm. A rustic soda jerker keeps his Manhattan-bent sweetheart by purchasing a book on Charm and pursuing its elegant policies in the hometown parlors...
...California swarms every afternoon with outlandish & desperate-looking bandits wearing fuzzy chaps, huge spurs, violently colored silk shirts, ten and sometimes only five-gallon hats. These desperadoes swoop down on a drugstore-and ask for an ice cream soda. After they have mangled the straws and paid the soda-jerker, they climb on their horses and ride back to Thacher School, where they prepare for college...
...inarticulate but devoted followers, and the devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks of the capitalists." Suddenly this lean...