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...Cabinet took to the radio. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin took to the radio. Mrs. Roosevelt took to pencil and paper. The President said he was "too busy" for any observance, except to attend evensong at Washington Cathedral. Thus last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt completed his second year as President...
...scattering of typical courtroom loungers looking on, Mr. Mellon sat each day at the counsel table beside Lawyer Hogan. Mostly he seemed bored and restless, glancing often at his chainless watch, appearing to doze off in the late afternoons. Once a young bailiff caught him smoking one of his pencil-thin cigars in the courtroom during recess...
...sooner had all Moscow's fire apparatus failed to put out the Krassin Pencil Factory conflagration in which 29 Russians were burned to death last week than the State rushed surviving employes over to the Sacco & Vanzetti Pencil Factory where they were put to work as an extra shift...
This odd locution would seem more startling were not the other characters in After Office Hours equally freakish in their mannerisms. The hero, Jim Branch (Clark Gable), is a managing editor who, for no apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high...
Overwhelmed by a stroke of good fortune which he regards as the reward of his own patience and integrity, Dr. Sporum's first impulse is to buy himself a patented pencil sharpener. His second is to fall in love with his benefactress, who begins to understand the perils of irresponsible benevolence. By the time Dr. Sporum has had his beard shaved off and presented Luisa Ginglebusher with a fox neckpiece, there is nothing much left in The Good Fairy except the scene in which Luisa explains to her three puzzled admirers what she has been up to, straightens...