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...rapid sequence the camera scans the seven leading personalities and their reactions to the president's death. The Playboy Financier (Louis Calhern) dabbles in bonds and women from the Stork Club, the Trusted Vice-President (Walter Pigeon) looks faithful, the Hearty Sales Manager (Paul Douglas) learns of the death in his secretary's apartment, and the Dead Man's former Mistress (Barbara Stanwyck) tears her hair. Only Frederick March, as the scheming comptroller who wants the presidency, has the time and the talent to develop his role...
Unlike her sister in New York, who drinks her Martinis extra dry and has learned to be bored at the Stork long before her debut, London's deb bursts forth on the social scene relatively unaware. Her dancing has been largely confined to boarding-school socials, her standard tipple tomato juice laced with Worcestershire sauce. Her debut is genuine and to meet it she must first get on a "list...
...Skiddoo! Snapped Millikin: "Let us cut out the bunk about how this tax bill is for the benefit of the rich, and how it oppresses the poor." Douglas pointed to a proposed reduction in the federal tax on cabarets. Asked he: "How many workingmen go to the Stork Club, the '23' Club,* and other such places, where gay blades like the Senator from Colorado are wont to congregate...
That brought a youthful glint into old (63) Gene Millikin's eyes. "The Senator from Illinois," said he, "causes me to think very nostalgically . . . His mind is preoccupied, for some strange reason, with the Stork Club and other fancy clubs, where, I assume, curvaceous and attractive girls gather...
Douglas broke in: "Let me say that I have never been in a nightclub in my life." Wistfully, Senator Millikin replied: "Nor have I, for many, many years . . . The Senator from Illinois has stimulated my imagination. His mind is strangely preoccupied with elegant clubs like the Stork Club and the '23' Club-is that the right name?" Douglas had the answer at the tip of his tongue. Said he: "The '23' Club, according to Walter Winchell...