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...Lady to Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted-the play of the waitress from San Francisco who went to the country to marry a man she had never seen, who had proposed to her 'by mail- was made into a silent picture in 1928, with Pola Negri. It was called then The Secret Hour. A Lady to Love is less sophisticated than The Secret Hour but it is splendidly acted and well cast. Vilma Banky is the waitress, Edward G. Robinson the man she marries, Robert Ames the handsome farm hand whose...
...thousands of Manhattanites he represents. He works because he has to, in order to have fun-also because he has to. His fun may seem cheap to you; it was expensive to him. One night cost him most of a week's pay; taking a lunch-counter waitress to the cinema, then a round of speakeasies, taxis, dancing, drunkenness, a fight; home again in the subway to catch two hours' sleep before the office; his mother's light still...
...drinking. A flower-woman runs out to the corner to see the danger better and a nobleman goes up to his roof for the same purpose. The raid in the fog, brilliantly photographed, is the justification of an unconvincing anecdote about a British aviator (John Garrick) and a waitress (Helen Chandler) in a camp canteen. Best shot: crowds in Whitechapel watching the fight...
...Manhattan, two kittens gambolled around a gas jet, turned it on. Mrs. Mary Kane, 67, waitress, asleep in the next room, was asphyxiated. So were the kittens. Emergency pulmotormen revived the kittens, could not revive Mrs. Kane...
Sophie Tucker used to be a waitress in the dining room of her father's hotel in Hartford, Conn. She was a fat, jolly girl, and the patrons of the Tucker House, many of them show people, told her she ought to go on the stage. They made fun of her deep, mournful voice, telling her they liked the way she sang. One night she ran away from home leaving a letter informing her father that she would never come back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until...