Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid its rent last week. While a London art dealer was refusing $10,500 for a Rembrandt and a New York dealer was taking $20,000 for a Picasso, nearly 400 painters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village at the foot of Fifth Avenue, stood their paintings on the sidewalk and sold 1,700 of them in nine days for over $9,700, plus groceries, dental work, shaves, baby shoes. The dealer took a commission on the Picasso, but the $9,700 went direct from manufacturer to consumer...
When James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman Jr. was an undergraduate at Princeton he one day helped up a crippled young man who had slipped on a Princeton sidewalk. The rich student became friendly with the cripple, eventually helped him to study at Yale Medical School, himself proceeded to Harvard Medical School. Last week young Mr. Stillman, who married a Canadian backwoods girl and is father of a three-months-old daughter, was ready to receive his Doctorate in Medicine and to devote himself to free obstetrical service among the poor.* At the moment his friend, now Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson...
Until he came to Washington, proud Sr. Morales had never seen ice outside of a tumbler. The slipperiness of ice on an F Street sidewalk was new to him. Most grievously was he insulted to see in print for all the world to read, how he, Carlos Morales, had slipped on such ice, crashed with a mighty thud, required the assistance of four men to hoist him upright again...
...final decision on his big idea: the establishment of an open air market in Washington Square where indigent artists may sell their work direct to the public. Such a curb market has existed on the Boulevard Raspail in Paris for years. In Vienna. Berlin, London, Moscow, similar sidewalk sales have often been held...
...expedient to have a second-string Lubitsch ready. Frank Tuttle certainly directed this one in the Lubitsch manner. He even uses a Lubitsch touch at the very beginning when a lady (Thelma Todd) gets her evening gown caught in the door of a limousine and the crowd on the sidewalk turns the incident into a song-"Madame Has Lost Her Dress." The song runs through the rest of the picture and helps to give it the light-hearted mood necessary to make an old plot seem fresh and more than one old joke seem funny...