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...acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately for herself, Adria fell in love with...
Francis did what he could in a situation that frightened him. Summoning up all his gentleman's blood, he kicked out the manicurist. Terrified but hopeful, he allowed himself to become engaged to Adria. He thought he was safe when he went to visit Adria in Venice, but his gentlemanly resolves rapidly evaporated in the hot Italian sunshine, the confining uses of a society which kept Adria impregnably surrounded. He continued to think of her as sacred, his manicurist as profane. When the manicurist, a determined creature, followed him to Venice, the rest was easy. Though Francis never knew...
...recovering stolen gems to obviate payments to their clients. Morey (Walter Pidgeon) is the private detective of Big Brown Eyes, working with an associate whose crimes include infanticide. The Big Brown Eyes are Eve's (Joan Bennett), who has been transformed from a quiet type into a slangy manicurist whose assured deportment and reconditioned make-up make her virtually indistinguishable from Carole Lombard. The small blue eyes which Na ture gave her have been photographed with magenta lighting so as to look big and brown. The picture is paced in a fashion that makes the sensational crook melo dramas...
...railways and excellent automobile roads. A man who has never shot anything bigger than a partridge may go from Manhattan to Nairobi in Kenya in five weeks. There on the cool plateau, he may dress every light for dinner. At the swank Avenue Hotel, he will find elevators, a manicurist, a good jazz band and a fine table. His safari, entirely organized for him by experts, will cost him about $2,000 a month per gun. His white hunter will take him where the game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will...
Again quoting the blurb-sheet, the University do scribes "Hands Across the Table" as "an hilarious romantic comedy of young love in a modern workaday world, centering mainly about the adventures in the life of a pretty, ambitious manicurist, who, tired of being a working girl, decides to capture a rich husband, regardless of whether she loves him or not." And this is about what it is, though it's not particularly hilarious, nor very romantic. Silly would be a better word. Needless to say, she does not marry for money, but for love--you can see that coming...