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...gedunk" soda fountain. The gleaming galley has most of the comforts of modern living, including an electric mixer, a potato peeler, a dishwasher, and a garbage grinder that should frustrate gulls and porpoises. Elsewhere on the ship are a 15-lb. washing machine and a steam dryer and presser...
When he was 24, Gonzalez moved to Chicago, went to night art school and worked as a daytime pants presser and railbed sweeper. He later went back to Mexico, where he taught art in public schools along with Covarrubias and Tamayo. His association with the Mexicans also had its influence on his work. Says Gonzalez: "We all came under the influence of Aztec art, Spanish baroque and Chinese and Japanese art . . . I am influenced by everybody...
Actress Michaels handles the title role in this inexpensive picture with vulgar assurance. Actor Egan is almost her tough match. The minor parts, especially the barkeep's wife (Evelyn Scott) and a lecherous pants-presser (Percy Helton), are also well attended to. Producer Clarence Greene and Director Russell Rouse, who also collaborated on a competent script, deserve high credit. Having decided to serve cheap whisky, they had the wit and the courage to serve it straight...
Jules's mother died when he was seven; his father, a presser in a garment factory, never found time to curb his son's surly, defiant spirit. At last, street-brawling, hooky-playing Jules was sent to Bronx P.S. 45, where the principal, famed Child Rehabilitator Angelo Patri, was doing his able best to teach unruly kids...
...relayed them to Rewrite Man Bob Hall, a veteran of 14 years on the paper, who had led police to a murderer once before. Hall went to work on the phone, ran down 18-year-old Roman Rodriguez, a pants presser. Did Rodriguez know the girl? Yes, he did; in fact, he had seen her the night before...