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Simone Simon, caught in the Manhattan housing squeeze, fought eviction from her $240-a-month sublet apartment. Her landlord, caught in the same squeeze, wanted to get back in fast, before his wife bore the baby she expected soon. "I would be happy to leave if I could find somewhere to go," cried the baby-faced cinemactress (All That Money Can Buy-). The OP A gave itself a week to decide...
...stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
...Hobby's Washington apartment was elegant with antiques. (Friends who sublet it for a while kept their young son in the bathroom most of the time because they were afraid he would break some thing.) As busy as she was, Isaac William Gulp's little girl never lost her style, her poise, her figure. Guests admired the way she appeared on sweltering nights looking cool and handsome in dinner dresses with ruffles. She thought she looked best in yel low and chartreuse. She always had a weakness for absurd headgear and courageously indulged...
...Church, says the pamphlet, does "not receive rents from houses in Paddington" although it owns the land which "was many years ago let on leases to tenants who have in many cases sublet." Unfortunately, the Church has "no control whatever over the landlords, though [it has] made repeated efforts to obtain legal powers [but] Parliament is not willing to revolutionize the whole law of property to meet one particular hardship...
...retired industrialist, Coburn pokes his way into the national capital, where he imperially rents half of a three-room apartment from its attractive occupant. Jean Arthur. He obviously considers himself old enough to be her mother, and thus overrides her misgivings. Behind her back, he then proceeds to sub-sublet half of his half to a clean young stranger, Joel McCrea. When Jean's stuffy Government boss takes her out to dinner, Coburn & McCrea sardine themselves into a dismal nightclub only to find that it is the scene of their landlady's tedious date. Coburn draws...