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What Mandeville Zenge was doing was hiding out until the next night when he was caught in a garage telephone booth in Chicago's west side. He firmly refused, however, to tell anything. The baffled newspapers thereupon pounced on Mrs. Bauer, headlined her as THE PENKNIFE WIDOW...
...Appeals, John V. W. Reynders of New York, one of Mr. Mellon's chief advisers, overtook Andrew W. Mellon in a corridor outside the courtroom and was heard to whisper what sounded like, 'Lend me a nickel, Andy.' Anyway he got the nickel and disappeared into a telephone booth...
...adaptation by Norman Krasna of his play, Small Miracle (TIME, Oct. 8), which that screenwriter dashed off between pictures a year ago and in which he reduced the Grand Hotel formula to its lowest terms by having most of the important action take place in a telephone booth. The booth, in the lounge of a Manhattan theatre, becomes a convenient place for an escaped murderer (Richard Barthelmess) to hide while waiting to shoot the man responsible for his capture...
...Manhattan, police investigated a new swindlers' dodge: selling the information booth in Grand Central Station as a fruit stand concession. Best price paid...
...musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...