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...Allen's Alley, satchel-eyed Fred Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy. Cassidy is gone for good, but the Senator will tub-thump occasionally during the election campaign. The vacancies have been let to a mysterious Russian, Sergei Strogonoff, and to a new rhyming character reminiscent of an old Alley resident, Falstaff Openshaw. Mrs. Nussbaum and Titus Moody have renewed their leases...
...leading character is Robert Grant, who is fiftyish, roly-poly, and "a moral leper." Grant spends his life chasing women and dollars with obsessive passion; he is not a hypocrite, since he lacks the degree of self-awareness necessary for hypocrisy; he is simply an ugly tub of flesh who snatches and grabs, whimpers and bellows, cringes and brutalizes as his pleasures demand, without ever feeling the slightest genuine regard for anyone. He invites women to his room for "a little tea, a little chat," tells them that "a woman like you could keep a man. I'm looking...
...Continental is an ancient tub that served in two world wars, changed hands and names five times. Last week, as she headed from Antwerp to New York, her latest owner had high hopes that she would lead the way to a bright new future. Hard-bitten Operator Arnold Bernstein had twice built up a thriving transatlantic shipping business, both times had been swept...
...Good Old Days." The most inventive of current directors, Huston knows as much about visual storytelling as any living man. Yet he has no weakness for the visual wow. He can contrive unforgettable images such as Robinson's bestial lolling in the bathtub (easily the most efficacious tub shot in movie history) or his death under Bogart's bullets, as obstinate as the rearing snake he suggests. But such images are never merely "pictorial" or "effective." Huston's style, so transparent that it would be very hard to describe, is unimitative and inimitable. It stamps Huston...
Next to Godliness. In Chicago, police solved the tub-ring mystery when 13-year-old George Springer confessed to breaking into eight homes to take baths...