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...mixup with the verein Turmaechter over use of the Lowell House Tower Room tonight has caused the instrumentalists to postpone their beer party until tomorrow evening...
...plot briefly concerns the newspaper career of a divorce-murder mixup in which Miss Bennett and some socialite friends of hers are involved. She is working for Mr. Gable's paper and is alternately hired and fired as his moods dictate. Finally he himself is fired for breaking a somewhat slandercus story about his girl reporter's society companions. Doing a bit of free lance journalistic detective work with the help of Stuart Erwin, he finally wrings a confession from a scoundrel of society and then completes the job by marrying Miss Bennett at four in the morning. All very...
...General and his lady arrived in their private car, were escorted to the City Hall. At the front door they waited. Mayor Stewart and the city fathers expected them at the side entrance for a private reception in the Mayor's office. Minutes passed before word of the mixup reached Mayor Stewart who rushed down to find the representative of the Crown red as a beet under his plumed hat, and already seated on the reviewing stand waiting for the parade to begin. Stammering apologies Mayor Stewart asked his Lordship if he would care to come back...
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...Green is a redheaded, good-natured ruffian from a small town in Pennsylvania. His ability to smash chins and football lines while not indulging his other animalisms too much to spoil the main chance, gets him into a good college, into Wall Street, big money, a sound marriage. A mixup with a girl to whom he turns not for sex but, more subtly, as an outlet for his vulgarity, leads to divorce, dissipation, bankruptcy. And then the muscular, go-getting, self-preservative qualities of Johnny Green come into play again. Through a rich but sallow girl whom he never quite...