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...sour note came into this close harmony. Irene was discontented, thought Ernie spent too much time looking at himself in the glass, not enough money on her clothes. But the Lorenzo husbands were too olive-oily for her taste; she wanted gamier game. Enter big society man, complete with roadster and fatuous expression; exit Irene. Meantime Husband Ernie had been taken up by the society man's wife, who had personality and an itch for Art. When the showdown came, with a double divorce and remarriage, Ernie and Irene found the new deal was not all they had hoped...
...different type. Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) is a minor-league Duse whose talents are impaired by a fondness for drink, lechery and offstage exhibitionism. She drives her husband to despair, causes a young architect (Franchot Tone) to jilt his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay), and wrecks his high-priced roadster on a tree. This produces a concussion and remorse, in which Joyce Heath abandons her bad ways...
...quality most easily assessed as charm, which definitely compensates for such minor shortcomings as its title, borrowed from an antique improper story and explainable only as one more evidence of the pitiful innocence of the Hays organization. Good shot: Herbert Marshall showing Jean Arthur his design for a roadster which Chrysler Corp. would do (well to examine closely...
...with plenty of chromium sells faster than a dull, angular one. Cabs are comfortable, smartly finished, scientifically ventilated, and more of them have been shoved forward over the engine. Performance has been stepped up but SAFETY is now the watchword. A good truck will stop faster than a light roadster, and while pleasure car accidents have increased nearly 60% in the past eight years, commercial vehicle accidents have risen only about 10%. Bus accidents have actually declined. Nearly all truckmakers are experimenting with Diesel engines, though only 600 Diesel-powered units were put on the roads last year. Of those...
Shortly before dawn one day last week an open roadster was whizzing down Manhattan's West Side Elevated Highway. In the car were three men and two women, all awash with liquor. Blind to a bend in the highway, the joyriding driver sent his machine smashing head-on into the steel railing. Two of the men were catapulted to the street below, instantly killed. One of the girls was also tossed out, badly hurt...