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Johnny almost stops the War by forming an alliance with the German ranks, dosing the Allied High Command with laughing gas. For his pains he is sent home, locked up for ten years in an insane asylum...
...lute, while Patsy revolves around him in a grotesquely graceful, childish dance. Screenwriter Jo Swerling, however, quickly dropped development of the Pennies from Heaven idea. He set his characters to making a haunted house into a night club, then switched to a carnival background, then to an orphan asylum. The thread on which the latter episodes are strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy in the orphan home and win the love of Crosby. By that time even such good songs as One, Two- Button Your Shoe and Let's Call a Heart...
...furor at the Paris premiere that the dancers, unable to hear the music, followed the beat of the frenzied Vaslav Nijinsky, shouting to them from the wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore, his fellow Slav, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a genius...
...Roger Dodacker. success story writer (Conrad Nagel). Charlie arranges a wedding present for her by sending her a fire engine and a riot squad, an ambulance and an undertaker to Dodacker. In the last shot, Rusty and Charlie are on the roof of an ambulance headed for an insane asylum...
...have Fish in the Cabinet, sent his nomination to the Senate and said he had not received the New Yorker's refusal until too late. Fish then agreed to serve until after Congress adjourned. But as he plunged into work, at his little office in the Orphan Asylum on 14th Street, with as many as 400 callers a day, as the monumental confusions of Grant's Administration piled up, as scandal followed scandal and Grant's waywardness became more obvious, Secretary of State Fish soon be came one of the few uncompromised individuals in the Government...