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...inoffensive, ineffectual comedy of family life on Manhattan's prosperous West Side. Its appeal is addressed squarely to Manhattan's prosperous Jewish theatre-goers who for some reason are always amused when they see their kind depicted as sentimental, hysterical money-worshippers. The story is that of Papa Kadan, wholesaler in ladies' dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money...
Among the newshawks, photographers, gawkers and sharpers who hurried to the sleepy village of Callander, Ont. at the end of May 1554 was a Chicago promoter named Ivan I. Spear. Three days after the Dionne Quintuplets were born, Papa Oliva Dionne signed a contract with Promoter Spear to exhibit himself, his wife and ten children* at Chicago's World's Fair under the auspices of the Century of Progress Tour Bureau. Net revenues, including photographic rights, were to be divided: Tour Bureau 70%, Papa Dionne 23%, Rev. Daniel Routhier (Papa Dionne's manager) 7%. For signing...
...father is chasing and being chased by a blonde adventuress (Binnre Barnes) in New York, the three sisters, unbeknown to their broken-hearted, divorced mother, take ship for America to make a counter-attack against the "enemy." They gain their first point when "Penny" interrupts every attempt of their papa's "Precious" to talk at luncheon; later "Penny" drags her bed across the floor while the adventuress is singing (?) below, thus winning a second objective. "Precious" and her simpering mother (Alice Brady) try to persuade the easy-going father to ship his daughters back the next day, but so well...
...from its place beside his desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner appeared as an off-the-record speaker at a luncheon of the National Press Club and packed the gallery. Boston's beaver-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham chuckled with delight in his dark apartment in what...
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