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...Lits bought Thomas Cook & Son with the result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
Even humbler was the Rev. Brother C. F. X. Athanasius who had a fine still life of a plate of peaches for $35. Taxi-driver Joseph Dunphy would never have had his two pictures in the exhibit at all if an unknown benefactor had not donated the necessary $8 after appeals printed by kindly newshawks...
...over a decade the fumbling artistic strivings of housewives, dentists, firemen, butlers, patent attorneys, and taxi drivers have provided a field day for professional newspaper humorists. In last week's exhibition there was a little section of 25 pictures, just as inept, just as badly painted as the rest, that caused no jeers. They were the work of eight convicts at New York's bleak Clinton Prison, Dannemora...
Waiting for Lefty, whose locale is closer to home, is another matter entirely. Transforming the audience into a meeting of a New York taxicab union. Playwright Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have sold out the cabdrivers to the fleet owners, are trying to prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one Lefty, pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious...
Princess O'Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem...