Word: waitering
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...advice and suggestion, but none contained anything really worth while. Plodding police work proved the No. 2 corpse to be that of 42-year-old Dancer Violette Kaye who had been living with a 26-year-old wavy-haired ne'er-do-well Toni Mancini, "The Dancing Waiter." He was indicted for her murder, tried, acquitted...
...summers ago the five whites were cursing their luck in Tientsin's sleazy port. Waiter Muller and George Schroeder, two brawny mechanics, were tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have...
Alison Skipworth and Roland Young supply the comic background for Crosby's impersonation of a waiter. The name of the picture incidentally is "Here Is My Heart" but it might be called any thing except "Romance in Manhattan" for that is the title of Francis Lederer's picture...
...Good Fairy (Universal). The ambition to be what she calls "a good fairy" is aroused in Luisa Ginglebusher (Margaret Sullavan) by an astonishing sequence of events. On the day that she is released from a Budapest orphanage, a friendly waiter (Reginald Owen) promises to smuggle her into a ball. At the ball, she meets an amorous plutocrat (Frank Morgan) whose fluttery advances she stalls off only by saying she is married. When Herr Konrad promises to make her husband immediately and fantastically rich, Luisa realizes her golden opportunity. She seizes a telephone book, mumbles an incantation, shuts her eyes...
...emerges as a slight comedy which is no less wise for being less cynical and one which is performed with exactly the right blend of nervousness and imperturbability by all the members of its cast. Good shot: Herr Konrad giving his order for supper to Luisa's waiter, who thinks she has no business in a private dining room...