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Crane Years: 1858: Charles R. was born the son of self-made Richard Teller Crane, famed college-man-hater who used to dumbfound Chicago socialites by growling, "Don't mind me, I'm only a plumber...
...other picture, "The Princess and the Plumber" is frankly unadulterated drip. There is the usual creaking comedy, old castles, symphony orchestras hidden under sofas, and bad dialogue whined vociferously through the nose by Charles Farrell and Maureen O'Sullivan...
...little as he plays checkers with the palace flunkeys. When the Queen goes away and a revolution breaks out he sides with the people. By the end of the film he has thrown the dictator out, put the radical leader in his place, married the princess to the plumber. If Actor-Director Sherman had stuck to the mood of drawing-room satire in which the play was written he might have been successful; as it stands The Royal Bed falls to bits between Graustarkian romance, farce, and heavy-footed satire. Best shot: the Queen's reminiscences of her trip...
Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, who has changed from a young smalltown editor with a plumber's haircut into a classy-cut newspaper hero. No constructive legislator, he has made the Campaign Expenditures Committee, the chair of which fell to him by accident, into a vehicle for constant personal publicity. Married, he likes to dance in his off hours...
...declined. Then the President was reported willing to appoint anyone upon whom Mr. Green's federation could agree. Some time later, Mr. Green called at the White House not with one agreed-upon candidate, but with four candidates representing four groups: Miner Matthew Wohl, Metalworker John P. Frey, Plumber John R. Alpine, Carpenter William Hucheson. Apparently Mr. Green was emboldened by the President's consultations. He protested too strongly against the appointment of any man outside these four...